What aircraft arrive at Goa. GOA International Airport

What if the flight was canceled

If the flight has canceled more than 24 hours before departure, passengers transplanted with similar flights of the airline. Expenditures carry a carrier, a free service for the passenger. If none of the options proposed by the airline, you do not suit you, most airlines can be decorated forced refund" After confirming the airline, the money will return to your account. Sometimes it may take several weeks.

How to register at the airport

Online registration is available on most airlines sites. Most often it opens 23 hours before the start of the flight. You can pass it no later than 1 hour before the departure of the aircraft.

To register at the airport you will need:

• identification certificate specified in the order
• birth certificate when flying with children,
• printed route receipt (optional).

• What can be taken with you

  Manual sting are things that you take with you to the cabin of the aircraft. Weight rate hand luggage It may vary from 5 to 10 kg, and its size most often should not exceed the sum of three dimensions (length, widths and height) from 115 to 203 cm (depending on the airline). The lady's bag does not apply to hand-made bags and shifts freely.

  In the bag that you take on the plane, there should be no knives, scissors, medicines, aerosols, cosmetics. Alcohol from shops duty Free. You can shift only in sealed packages.

  How to pay luggage at the airport

  If the weight of baggage exceeds the norms installed by the airline (most often - 20-23 kg), you need to pay for each kilogram of the advantage. In addition, many Russian and foreign airlines, as well as lucostors there are tariffs that do not include free provocative Luggage and it must be paid separately as an additional service.

  Luggage It is necessary to register at the airport at a separate Drop-OFF front desk. If you do not have the ability to print a boarding pass, you can get it on the usual airline front desk, and register and pass the luggage.

  Where to learn the time of arrival if you meet

  You can find out the time of arrival of the aircraft on the online table of airport. On the site Tutu.ru there is an online scoreboard of the main Russian and foreign airports.

  You can find out the output number (Gate) on the board of arrival at the airport. This room is a close to the information about the arriving flight.

Dabolim Airport is the only aircraft of Goa. Airport serves regular and charter flights. The main part of passengers - foreign tourists, since local residents Most often go on trains due to lack of money for tickets. The airport consists of two terminals, one of which takes international flights.

Tourists often complain that Goa Airport is not equipped properly. For example, it should be borne in mind that information about departures and arrivals on the scoreboard often comes late. In addition, it is necessary to keep the Ear Egor here, since the locals do so badly catch in inexperienced tourists.

The airport is located between the Northern and Southern Goa, 30 km from the capital - Panji city. Reach right place Can be on the flight bus or taxi. Most travelers prefer the last option.

Terminal GOA Airport

Earlier at Goa airport was 2 passenger terminal: For domestic and international flights. In 2014, a new, modern air-building building was opened, which combined both terminals under the same roof. Zones of international departures: A, B, C. Internal flight zones: D, E, F, G, H. The capacity of the new airport is about 4 million passengers per year.

Terminal scheme

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Services for travelers

• shops Duty Fre
• mother and child room
• restroom for transit passengers

At Goa Airport there is everything you need that a tourist may be required during the waiting for the flight. Many travelers note that the prices at the airport are greatly overestimated. So, for example, local SIM cards are completely unprofitable.

Online scoreboard and departure

How to get to the airport

• Taxi

  The rack of the "official" is located when leaving the airport, it works around the clock. You just need to say where you are going, and the staff will write down the receipt. There is also a booth with an indication of the resorts and distances to them. Approximate trip cost - from 425-510 INR. Say to get to one of the most beautiful beaches Goa - Palolam, - you will need to pay around 2300 INR (distance 67 km). Frequent prices, so it is more profitable to ride the company from several people. Prices on the page are shown in October 2018.

  Change money at Dubolim airport is unprofitable. Therefore, if you do not want to pay for a taxi in advance, you need to report it. The driver on the way will stop near the exchanger, where you can change the money at a more advantageous course, and will take a fee for travel on arrival.

  When ordering a taxi is to bargain, since sometimes the initial price may be slightly overpriced.

• Bus

  Goa Airport is connected bus routes With the city of Vasco-da Gama and the village of Chikalim, from where you can get to Panji and then transfer to the buses to the resorts. But buses go irregularly and almost always crowded. The cost of a ticket to Panja in total will be about 85 INR.

Perhaps, all travelers, thirsty adventures, sooner or later turn out to be in the very colorful state of India - Goa. To help tourists I collected the most useful information About how to get to Goa from Russia and other cities of India, as well as from Goa Dubolim Airport to the coolest beaches and resort towns of Northern and South Goa.

How to get to Goa from Russia?

• In the season (from November to May), the goa fly straight charter flights Airlines Nordwind Airlines, Transaero, Uteir and others from Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk. The cost of air tickets on the direct flight Moscow - Goa range from $ 290 to two sides.
• There are no direct flights to Goa from Russia. You can fly from Moscow to Delhi regular flight Aeroflot or Transaero, and then transfer to the train or plane to Goa. The airfare to Moscow - Delhi - from $ 146 flights. In addition, there is an option to buy Moscow - Mumbai flights at a price of $ 212 to two sides, from where it is already much closer to go to Goa than from Delhi.

What to get to Goa from other cities of India?

If you flew to Delhi or Mumbai, then before Goa can be reached by the following ways. Delhi to Goa - 1880 km, from Mumbai to Goa - 604 km.

Train to Goa from Mumbai and Delhi

• From Delhi Train to Goa go from the railway stations New Delhi and H.Nizamuddin. Time on the way is 27.5 hours. Ticket price - $ 28.
• From Mumbai Train to Goa go from the railway station Mumbai CST. Time on the way is 8 hours. Ticket price - $ 10.

Trains in Goa with railway stations Mumbai and Delhi arrive at the railway station Vasco Da Gama, Tivim (Thivim) in North Goa And Margao (Madgaon) in South Goa. From these stations you can take a bus to the city you need or get to the capital of Panjim (Panjim) and make a transplant to another bus.

The train ticket can be bought in different classes of cars. The most discoverable is a sleeping car Sleepper, where it is full of Hindus, and where I would not advise you to climb tourists. If you decide to go by train, tickets can be booked at Cleartrip.com. The names of the train passengers should be checked on a special bulletin board before boarding the train, and then still at the door of the carriage. I would not recommend traveling to girls alone by India by train, as in India there are frequent cases of rape of tourists, and cars in trains are common here, and you never know who you will be sitting, what is on the next - on a common shelf (due to lack of places People often sell the same sleeping place on the train).

Important! When moving to long distances in India, make sure that you do not sell a ticket to WL (Waiting List) at the box office. This means that Tickets for this train are sold out, and you are included in the waiting list in case someone refuses its ticket. For such a ticket there is a chance to leave, but you can stay with anything.

Bus to Goa from Mumbai and Delhi

• From Mumbai to Goa buses depart very often. Time on the way to Goa - 15-16 hours. Ticket price - $ 4.5 - 23. Places to plant passengers in Mumbai by bus to Goa a lot (about 222 points of departure), they are all listed on the site.
• There is no direct bus to Goa from Delhi. You will need to fly to the city of Pune, and then take a direct bus to Goa. The cost of the ticket Delhi is Pune $ 137 to two ends. Bus from Pune to Goa goes with a railway station (Pune Railway Station) or from SWARGATE stop. Time on the way to Goa - 10-15 hours. Ticket price - $ 5.3 - 18.

Buses to Goa come to the city of Mapsa (Mapusa) - the largest bus node of the resort. Bus schedule and prices can be found on the MakeMytrip website and to book a bus ticket. On the same site, it is very convenient to put trip routes on India by bus, train, plane in the Route Planner tab. If you do not buy a ticket online, you can purchase it in Ticket Agencies (Travel Agency) near the bus station.

Airplane on Goa from Mumbai and Delhi

Most convenient if you flew to big City India, get to Goa by plane. Flight ticket Delhi - Goa will cost you from $ 148 to two sides; Mumbai - Goa - from $ 68 to two sides.

With how to get to Goa, we figured out, and now we will get acquainted with Goa Airport and how to get from Goa Airport to the resort towns of state.

Summary about Goa Airport

On Goa alone, he is located in Dabolim in the city, thanks to which he received its name - Dabolim Airport. The nearest city from the airport is Vasco-da Gama is 5 km away. The capital of the state is Panji - located 30 km from the airport. The airport passenger traffic is more than 4.5 million passengers per year. The airport is actually at the border of the Northern and South Goa. For the convenience of your orientation, I apply below the Goa card with the main attractions and hotels.

Previously, Goa Airport was a pitiful spectacle, and the reconstruction of its international terminal was constantly postponed. However, from March 2014, at the airport opened a new modern terminal with three levels instead of two old terminals. New terminal Serves both domestic and international flights. Despite the fact that at the airport sometimes the chaos reigns, it used to be even worse, so we rejoice in what is.

This is how the old terminal of Dabolim Airport looked like.

And so looks like a new modern terminal.

Bus + train from Dabolim Airport to the railway station in North and South Goa

There are 3 Railway Stations in the airport area: Vasco Da Gama, Sankval and Dabolim. To get to these railway stations, you need to sit on the local bus at the airport. There are no rooms at the buses, and their route is specified on the tablet on the windshield. The ticket is bought directly from the driver. The price for the passage is $ 0.15-0.23.

The largest of the listed stations is railroad station Vasco Da Gama, located 5 km from the airport. With railway stations you can get to the railway station Tivim (Thivim) in Northern Goa and Margao (Madgaon) in South Goa. Already there it will be necessary to transfer a bus to your city / beach. This is an extremely uncomfortable way of movement, as you already understood.

Dubolim - 26 km from Dabolim Airport, from Dabolim to Tivim Airport - 46 km.

I want to immediately warn you that the trains and buses in India are almost always just clogged with Cuckom. Surely you saw pictures on the Internet, where in the train people literally sit on each other. So, in India, everything is the same. You can get on the train only when buying a ticket in advance. Buy a train ticket to the ticket office before shipment you are unlikely to work. Trains in India almost in all cases are late, and they are difficult to call a reliable type of transport. Therefore, I would not advise them to use if time presses, and you need to have time to the destination by a certain time.

Bus Shattle from Goa Airport to Resorts

This option is available if you stay on Goa in one of the hotels that offer a free airport transfer. Such a service is provided to the following hotels in The Leela Goa (from $ 113 per night) in South Goa, Cidade de Goa (from $ 79 per night) in North Goa or Sandray Luxury Apartments and Villa (from $ 45 per night) in South Goa.

Taxi from Goa Airport to Resorts

I strongly recommend that you use Taxi's services to quickly and comfortably get from Goa Airport to your destination on both the northern and south Goa: in Karwar, Anjuna, Ponda, Mapus, Betalbatim, Calangute, Kandolim, Vagator, Panja. Russian taxi, which can, takes you at a fixed price almost anywhere in the state of Goa and to other cities in India, if necessary.

Taxi is inexpensive, and, in my opinion, this is an excellent alternative to unstable Indian public transport. You do not have to shake on the heat in the crowd of the Hindus in unsanitary conditions, or risk moving on the bus in the evening or night time: the crime rate in India is very high. If you go to the company, a taxi trip will be cheaper.

If you go to a taxi to the local, you will be ready to bargain, because Their first reaction to the foreigner is to overestimate the price of the trip at times.

Plan a trip in advance and save up to 40%!

The only International Airport of Goa in India is called Dabolim. This is a gateway to the famous Indian state for tourists and travelers, they fly here from all the countries of the world on charter and regular aircraft to relax and have fun.

This is pretty old AirportHe was built in the distant 50s of the last century. In those days, the state of Goa was a Portuguese colony, did not belong to India. Decade later, Dabolim on Goa was occupied by the Armed Forces of India, and today belongs to the military.

For several decades of state authorities eastern Bank Beautiful Arabian Sea, which has an excellent climate and unique beaches, elected tourist industries - the main direction of its development.

Dabolim on the map goa

Technical Features of Dubolim Airport in Goa

Civilian flights arrive at Goa Airport and decrease from it from 13:00 to 08:00 am. The rest of the time the teachings on the military airfield are coming. This is too short time for a peaceful harbor, and passengers have discomfort.

Several years ago, an additional airport was built to unload the airport in Goa international Terminal For tourists and state guests, but he did not solve the problems of passenger traffic completely.

Dabolim Airport has one runway (runway) with a length of almost 3,500 m. It is built over Arabian Sea., and tourists such an arrival in fabulous India. It leads to complete amazement and delight.

The official website of the airport has a scoreboard, on it at any time you can find the schedule of flights, what time is required for registration, etc. It is possible to mentally prepare for the prospect of long queues.

Checking baggage

At Goa Airport in India, the entire baggage is subject to careful check. It is skipped through the scanner. All proven things are tied with a plastic security ribbon, before receiving luggage in another airport, it cannot be opened.

In Goa, there is a single airport, called Dabolim. His abbreviated name - Goi (GOA International Airport.). Yes, and that, this is not a very tourist airport: most of its part belongs to the Ministry of Defense of India. Today, the air terminal has two terminals: Terminal 1 serves domestic flights, and terminal 2 - international.

« Aerial doors"Goa were erected in the 1950s by the Portuguese (at that time the staff was Portuguese colony and was not part of India). But the struggle for India's independence did its job - and in 1962, all Goa (including the airport) was captured by Indian military. Since then, and so far, Dabolim remains the property of the military forces of the Indian Republic, a military aircraft called "Hans" is located on its territory.

Travel time Moscow - Dabolim - Approximately 7.5 hours.

Due to the fact that the airfield belongs to the Air Force of India, daily from 8 am to 13:00 in the territory of military flight exercises, and the ups and landing of civil aircraft are prohibited, so all airplanes in Goa arrive or late in the evening, or at night, or early in the morning (before The beginning of the teachings of military fighters).

We once fell into a situation where our was late with the arrival, because of which the departure was detained for 4 hours. At this time, the take-off airclause bands were already engaged in military fighters, and about 300 people were sitting in the waiting room and silently watched. We had to fly away at 7 am, and it turned out only about 12 days. We were lucky, and some miraculously, our plane was allowed to take off between the take-offs of Indian fighters (apparently, the lunch break happened). And we already expected to wait until the end of the working day.

Also, in view of the military orientation of the airport, at the entrance to it always stands the military with a machine gun and checks tickets for everyone who wishes to enter. Therefore, everyone must have a printout of their e-ticket, where the number and date of the flight can be seen. The entrance to the airport on the ticket is allowed no earlier than 4 hours before the departure of your aircraft.

Dubolim Airport on the map:

Arriving in Dabolim

Upon arrival in India, all tourists are required to fill an Arrival Card, it is sometimes distributed in airplanes, but most often you have to take it at Goa Airport and fill in the racks, so we advise you to have a little handle with you The card accounts for a long time). The Arrival Card fits the standard information: flight arrival, the date of flying, in which hotel will live, which cities are planning to visit.

This looks like Arrival Card, which you need to fill out all foreign tourists

After filling out Arrival Card, you need to go to border control with it (if you have an incredible Indian visa in the passport) or on the Visa On Arrival rack (if you decorated an electronic visa, which is pasted into the passport by arrival).

After passing the border control, we go on the baggage receipt tape. Dabolim is small, so the tapes are only two here. These ribbons are on duty around the clock, local "helped", which hurry to snatch from your hands a suitcase to bring it to a taxi, or before the operator's rack, if you arrived on your own. They are dressed in some form making them similar to airport employees, in fact, the form of this "left".

They know our main operators flying in Goa, so when a confused tourist hears: "Pegasus, go there," he is sure that this is a worker of the tour operator, the responsibility of which includes the conception of tourists to the rack. In fact, it is an ordinary indian, thus earning. After you with him together find the rack of your tour operator (or taxi), it will begin to demand a fee for his services. They ask for a lot (according to eyewitnesses, from 5 dollars to 500 rupees), although they have to carry no more than 50 meters.

Currency exchange at the airport is, but the course is extremely unprofitable. Therefore, if you really need urgent (for example, to pay a taxi), exchange a small amount (no more than $ 50). But it is best to order a car in a prepaid-taxi booth (state prepaid taxi) and say that you will pay the driver later. In the window you will be given a piece of paper with a fixed price, and already in your village, you will exchange dollars at a favorable course and pay with the driver. Taxi rates to different villages Goa hangs at the exit of the airport, so if the taxi driver starts to overestimate the price, you should not encourage it. Taxi prices from the airport and the distance to popular tourist towns We will give in this article, just below.

Stand of the State Prepad Taxi at Dubolim Airport

In addition to currency exchange, you can use ATMs that are at the output of the terminal: just remove money from your card. ATM issues rupees, conversion occurs inside the bank. Commission for issuing Indian ATM standard: 200 rupees. Commission for removing money in your bank can be different: we, for example, money from which you can shoot without a commission at any point in the world (provided that the amount of removal is at least 3000 rubles). Usually, we remove 10,000 rupees, and pay 200 rupees for issuing - it turns out 2% of the amount. The smaller the amount you take off, it is not more profitable.

It is worth considering that Indian ATMs do not work as Russian. They do not "swallow" card "- it needs to be inserted until it stops and immediately pull out: the ATM has already considered all the necessary information. After the card is read and extracted, you already enter the PIN code, select the desired account and enter the required amount of issue.

Also at the exit to the city there is a sale of Indian SIM cards. It is extremely unprofitable to buy them here: they are more expensive than in the village of Goa, and in the event of a malfunction of the card, there will be no complaint (you will not go to the airport by taxi for 1000 rupees to exchange SIM card for 500).

There are no luggage storage chambers in Dabolim, so you will not work the luggage there for a while of searching for housing.

Online tablo Dabolim Airport (Select the "Departure" or "Arrival" tab) :

Distance from Goa Airport to tourist villages and taxi prices

Table with prices from 2017

Route where to go from Dubolim Airport	Distance in KM.	Cost of the official state prepaid taxi in rupees (car without air conditioning)	Machine with air conditioning
North Goa
Kandolim	47	1200	1271
Mapusa	45	1149	1218
Kalangut	45	1149	1218
Baga	47	1200	1271
Anjuna	52	1328	1407
Vagator	54	1379	1461
Mandrem	65	1659	1758
Burly	63	1608	1704
Arambol	67	1710	1812
Ashvem.	64	1634	1731
Pernn	71	1812	1920
Terekol.	75	1941	2028
Miramar	37	945	1002
South Goa
Margao	34	869	918
Stone	41	1047	1110
Kankolim	43	1098	1164
Bethul	52	1328	1407
Saveden	55	1404	1488
SanGem	60	1550	1623
Mobor	44	1124	1191
Palis	70	1787	1893
Loliem	87	2220	2352
Agonda	74	1889	2001
Canacon	68	1736	1839
Benaulim.	29	741	786
Kepem	45	1149	1218
Paper	34	269	921

It is worth considering that at night (from 23:00 to 05:00) another 35% is added to these tariffs. Also, the pre-taxi takes another 10 rupees from each passenger for luggage.

Departure from Dabolima

About the fact that you can enter the terminal, only after presenting the military at the entrance to your printed e-ticket, we have already spoken. What happens after you enter inside?

When you arrive from Goa, you carefully check the luggage, and after - the suitcase is glued to the castle, which cannot be removed without damaging it. So they are trying to protect the flight (so that in the suitcase after the check did not put prohibited items). By the way, in the baggage it is forbidden to carry any batteries, we once didn't miss the children's suitcase because it was the remote control of the typewriter with batteries inside.

Lighters are also prohibited by transportation both in hand-made and in baggage. Therefore, even souvenir lighters from India are also made of suitcases.

Here is such a queue for registration on the flight Goa-Samara, it turned out at 4 am

Registration of passengers at international departure racks at Dubolim Airport

At the airport Dabolim, the service of rewinding of luggage plastic film is available - it costs everything 200 rupees. Compared with a similar service in Sheremetyevo, which is worth 500 rubles - Indians are asked 2 times less.

We noticed another feature of Goan Airport: special tags trailers trailers for all manual stalls. But the most interesting thing is not in this - such tags are issued on hand to hand everywhere. But only at Dubolim Airport to put a manual stall without tags on board it will not work: special prints are put on these tags after checking the hand-made bag on the scanner, and without these seals you will not be missed on customs control. At other airports, we often do not even even train the "Cabin Baggage" tags at all - and never had problems.

Generally, harbour Air Goa is small, many people, everywhere queue. Luggage and passing passport control It takes a lot of time, it is better to come to the airport at least in 3 hours (of course, if you are not going with an organized transfer from the tour operator).

For about 2017, no one asked for this issue: fruits in special baskets in hand-made bags were missing without problems, and even if the basket was not the only element of hand-made bag, and came to it. For the sake of fairness, it is worth saying that according to the rules for the transport of fruit in hand-made bare, it always has been banned, but no one has paid such serious attention.

Here in such baskets used to exported fruit from Goa in hand baggage

At the end of 2017, this rule for some reason began to perform with special care: all fruit baskets were forced to pass into baggage. But money for them, as for the extra luggage, did not take.

Nevertheless, we have witnessed how our enterprising Russian tourists still have fruit baskets in hand baggles: they simply did not show them when they are putting a baggage, and successfully managed to be on board. The same tourists who asked for workers: Is it possible to carry it and showed on baskets, were forced to pass them into luggage.

It is worth saying that during our December 2017, all baskets flew safe and preservation, they were not unloaded on the tape, but neatly brought all baskets on a separate cart and set near the luggage belt.

Most of all, those tourists who were forced to hand over the fruit baskets into luggage, workers were confiscated at the Russian border (according to rumors), and workers confiscated half of the fruit, and only a small part of what they were lucky were reached. In view of this, they diligently covered the baskets of scotch. Whether the scotch helped, or the customs officers fell honest to us, but all fruits surrendered to baggage reached their owners in the same quantity that they were handed over.

Duty Free and Fudcourts at the airport

Duty Friend Zone in Dabolim is very, very modest (approximately as in the Russian province). In fact, there is only one small shop with some alcohol and souvenirs, a few fast food floors with very expensive prices, and that's it.

On the right - the same yarn with Fast Food. Tables where you can eat and drink bought. Passengers eaten on chairs.

Departure Hall: The only mini-shop Duty Friend can be seen;

When our flight was detained for 4 hours, we had to buy expensive and tasteless (moreover, sharp) hamburgers in one of two dots in the departure zone. There is no normal food here. Therefore, I can not even imagine how it is to feed the children during a long delay of the aircraft. I am very advised, just in case, in advance of any more useful meal for children.

Gohan Airport from the landing strip.