Bus Transfers To and From Florence Airport

Volainbus shuttle leaves from just outside the terminal. Simply follow the signposting. Volainbus only stops at Florence Airport and Florence city center. The journey takes ca 20 minutes.

The Volainbus shuttle runs every 30 minutes between 5.30 in the morning until 20.30 at night, then every hour until 00.30, every day of the week. Early morning Volainbuses (5.30, 6.00 and 6.30 hours) and late night shuttles (20.30, 22.30, 23.45 and 00.30 hours) stop directly outside the main entrance of Florence Santa Maria Novella (SMN) train station. All other shuttles stop at Via Santa Caterina da Siena bus station, near SMN railway station. Please click on the timetable here.

Volainbus leaves the city center every 30 minutes during the hours of 5.00 in the morning to 20.00 hours at night, then every hour until midnight. Volianbus shuttles leaving early in the morning (5.00, 5.30 and 6.00 hours) and those leaving late at night (21.00, 22.00, 23.00 and midnight) pick up at the main entrance at Santa Maria Novella (SNM) train station. All other Volainbuses pick up passengers at the bus terminal at Via Santa Caterina da Siena 15/17. Please click on the timetable here.

A single ticket costs 6.00 euros per person, a return ticket 10.00 euros. Children under the age of 3 go free. Tickets can be purchased directly on the shuttle from the driver (cash only) or inside the airport at the Giunti Bookshop. In the city center bus tickets can be bought inside the entrance hall of SMN train station at AGENZIE 365 close to the Trenitalia ticket office, and also at the Busitalia-Sita Nord ticket office at the bus terminal at Via Santa Caterina da Siena, 15/17. Tickets are also available from all shops and outlets selling AFTA bus tickets.

Busitalia-Sita Nord, tel 800 373760, www.fsbusitalia.it

Passengers bound for Pisa Airport should take the Volainbus shuttle (see above for times and prices) to Florence City Center first, before boarding the bus for Pisa Airport from Florence Santa Maria Novella train station, near track 16, in Via Montelungo. The bus stops in Prato, Pistoia and Montecatini, before reaching Pisa Airport. Total average journey time is ca 2.5 hours via Autostrada 11.

The first buses leave from just outside the train station in central Florence at 03.30, 05.00 and 07.00 in the morning, arriving at Pisa Airport at 04.40, 06.10 and 08.10 hours respectively. Services run regularly throughout the day, until 19.15, 20.30 and 21.45, arriving at Pisa Airport at 20.25, 21.40 and 22.55 hours respectively.

Look out for the orange Sky Bus Lines Caronna sign outside the terminal's Arrivals area. The earliest Sky buses leave at 05.00, 06.30 and 08.50 in the morning, arriving in Florence city center at SMN train station at 06.10, 07.40 and 10.00 hours in the morning. The final three services of the Sky bus leave Pisa Airport at 20.30, 22.30 and 23.55 hours, arriving in Florence at 21.40, 23.40 and 01.35 hours respectively.

For details about other times, please see  https://www.caronnatour.com/new-direct-sky-bus-lines-en/

Children under the age of 3 go free. A single ticket costs 12.00 euros per person, 24.00 euros return. Children aged 3 to 10 pay 7.00 euros each. Passengers can purchase tickets at Pisa Airport's ticket office. Ask at the Information Desk, to the right-hand side of the Arrivals hall, where to find the Post Office.

Tickets can also be purchased online at https://www.busweb.it/autobus_Firenze_Pisa-Aeroporto.html.

Route Operator Contact Details: Caronna Tour Srl, Via Rotina 24, 56021 Cascina (PI), Skybus Airport Line Pisa-Florence tel +39 366 126 0651, info@caronnatour.com