Airport Taxi charges to the World's Busiest Cities

GOrentals TAXI TAXI fares from the Airport to the World's busiest cities $45 for 10KM $4.50/KM $35 for 8KM $4.38/KM NZ CHRISTCHURCH NZ QUEENSTOWN $51 for 12KM $4.23/KM $49 for 12KM $4.05/KM $68 for 18KM $3.77/KM $30 for 8KM $3.75/KM) $78 for 21KM $3.71/KM $105 for 29KM $3.67/KM $65 for 18KM $3.59/KM $159 for 461KM $3.46/KM AUS SYDNEY AUS PERTH AUS MELBOURNE NZ WELLINGTON NZ AUCKLAND UK LONDON SPA MADRID RUS MOSCOW $81 for 25KM $3.25/KM $26 for 8KM $3,24/KM ITA ROME AUS ADELAIDE $74 for 23KM $3.22/KM $61 for 19KM $3.20/KM $78 for 24KM $3.19/KM $77 for 25KM $47 for 16KM $2.92/KM NED AMSTERDAM UK MANCHESTER USA LOS ANGELES USA SAN FRANCISCO $3.11/KM SPA BARCELONA All prices in NZD (currency conversion in June 2014) Auckland City $78 21 KM Auckland 2 New Zealand airports are the most expensive airports in the the world to hire a taxi from to the City Centre (all figures in NZD, converted in June 2014). The 4 international airports in NZ are in the top 7 and the other 3 are Australian airports. London Heathrow is the most expensive airport, outside of Australasia. Hiring a taxi from Christchurch Airport into the city centre costs $45 - for the 10km journey, that's a whopping $4.50 per kilometre! International Airport $30 8 км Queenstown Airport Queenstown Wellington Wellington Airport $45 10KM $35 8KM Christchurch Christchurch Airport Auckland City $78 (Avg. Price) City of Sails Auckland International Airport GO World Map •oం Low High Taxi Rates Australasia is the most expensive part of the world to take a taxi from the airport - New Zealand just pips Australia as the costliest. Europe isn't cheap, and with the good public transport available would be wiser to use that, particularly in the UK, the Netherlands and Italy. South East Asia is the cheapest part of the world to hail a cab at the airport. GO Comparison of Taxi Rates $4.00 / KM $3.59 / KM New Zealand Australia United Kingdom $3.48 / KM Russia $3.46 / KM Spain $3.27 / KM Italy $3.25 / KM Netherlands $3.22 / KM United States $2.76 / KM Austria $2.34 / KM Czech Republic $2.22 / KM France $1.93 / KM Japan $1.56 / KM Singapore $1.29 / KM United Arab Emirates $0.94 / KM A Comparison of Taxi Prices by Country Bulgaria $0.63 / KM Thailand $0.41 / KM China $0.40 / KM New Zealand and Australia are the Malaysia $0.33 / KM most expensive countries in the world to commute via taxi from the Airport to the City Centre. New Zealand (comprising of Auckland, Christchurch, Queenstown and Wellington Airports), is the most expensive country by quite a distance. It is less than half the price in Paris than Auckland to get a taxi from the airport GO Methodology Euromonitor information gave us the top city destinations for visitors and we used www.taxifarefinder.com to get the cost of a taxi from the airports to the city centres. All fares were converted into NZD using xe.com on June 28th 2014.We used Google Maps to find out the distance from the airport to city centre which gave us price per KM. The GO Sources Auckland City Skyline Image © taweragroup.com http://blog.euromonitor.com/2014/01/euromonitor-internationals-top-city-de stinations-ranking.html XE.Com - currency data from 28th June 2014 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id3D1&objectid3D11248648 http://www.taxifarefinder.com http://maps.google.co.nz 21KM