About Airport to Downtown

Airport to Downtown answers one question, for 100+ major airports around the world: what is the cheapest legitimate way from this airport to the city centre? Not the fastest, not the most comfortable, not the one with the biggest commission for us — the cheapest real public-transport option that locals actually use. Every guide is available in English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, and French.

Who we are

We are a small independent team of three, split between Berlin and Calgary:

• Alex (Berlin) — product & engineering. Builds the site and the data pipeline behind it.
• Marina (Berlin) — UX & growth. Makes sure a guide is readable in the arrivals hall on a phone at 6am.
• Julia (Calgary) — psychologist & content. Leads research quality and how guides are written.

We built this site because we kept doing the same research before every trip — digging through airport pages, transit-authority fare tables, and Reddit threads to avoid the €40 taxi when a €4 train exists — and decided to publish the results properly.

How every guide is researched

Each airport page follows the same editorial procedure:

• Official sources first. The fare always comes from the airport's own transport page or the city transit authority's fare tables — never from a blog or an aggregator.
• Cross-checked. The fare and route are corroborated across at least two independent sources before publishing. Recent traveller reports are used only for the non-obvious step and the tourist traps — never for the price itself.
• The cheapest-wins rule. The route a page headlines is always the lowest-priced legitimate public-transport option. A faster or comfier option may be mentioned as an alternative, but it never replaces the cheapest one in the headline.
• Dated and linked. Every guide shows its last-verified date and links to the official transport source, so you can re-check the fare and timetable before you fly.
• No invented numbers. When something can't be verified, we say less rather than guess.

Fares and timetables do change. If a guide looks outdated — tell us and we'll re-verify it against the official source. And if you want to run the same research yourself (for an airport we don't cover yet, or to double-check ours), the whole method is public: how to find the cheapest route yourself.

How the site is funded

The site is free to use and supported by advertising. Ads never influence which route a guide recommends — the cheapest-wins rule decides that, and no transport operator pays for placement.

Contact

Corrections, missing airports, questions: contact page or support@copepilot.com.