A total of five city trains will take travelers to the airport.
After years of sustained campaigning by railway activists in Bengaluru, the first train route to Kempegowda International Airport will start operating from Monday. With this, travelers will get the first and fastest off-road alternative to get to the airport. You can board a train from the city and get to the airport stop station (located on the edge of the airport boundary) with fares as low as Rs 10-15. A total of five trains will run between the city and the airport stop station in the coming months.
From the city’s train station, trains will leave once at 4:45 am in the morning and once at 9 pm at night. From Yehlanka, Yeshwantpur and Bangalore Cantonment stations, trains will leave at 7 am, 8:30 am and 5:55 pm respectively. Similarly, the airport trains will depart at 6:43 pm and 10:37 pm to Majestic, and at 6:22 am, 7:45 am and 8:21 am from Yelahanka, Bangalore Cantonment and Yeshwantpur stations respectively.
South Western Railway train schedules have been set in consultation with the airport authority to primarily benefit hundreds of airport employees. From there, Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), the company that manages KIA, will operate shuttle buses to take passengers to the terminal. All other options for getting to the airport are much more expensive, with bus tickets costing at least 250 rupees from most parts of the city, and taxi fares are more than 700 rupees.
By the end of 2023, another train line to the airport is also expected to be ready as part of the recently approved dedicated suburban rail project. That line is expected to operate trains faster and more frequently. The union government has yet to approve a metro rail line project that will connect the city and the airport.
It was previously reported that the stop station built with BIAL funds in the Yelahanka and Devanahalli section had been ready for use since September. However, as on many routes, the trains were not running since the imposition of the blockade in March 2019 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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