Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport (IATA: YUL) (formerly Dorval Airport) is west of the city centre on Expressway (Autoroute) 20. Note that travel time to the airport from the city centre can be as much as an hour, depending on traffic. The airport is served by all major Canadian and U.S. airlines and is a major hub for Air Canada , Air Transat , and WestJet .
There are multiple daily trans-Atlantic flights to and from (amongst others) London, Amsterdam, Paris, Geneva, Zurich, Athens,Doha, Frankfurt, Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, Munich, and Casablanca.
The taxi fare to and from downtown is a fixed price of $38 (a sticker on the window behind the driver gives the boundaries of the zone where the flat fare applies; if you are going from or to places outside this zone, you will have to pay a metered fare).
STM Airport Express bus 747 offers service between the airport and downtown Montreal 24 hours a day. A single fare will cost $8 (exact change in coins only when paid in the bus) including unlimited use of the STM bus and metro network for the following 24 hours. There is also a ticket booth in the airport where you can purchase fares (including a three day pass for $16). The bus will stop at Lionel-Groux station and a number of downtown stops.
It is possible to go downtown by the cheaper regular public transit system. Late at night, it is all right, but in the daytime, you need lots of transfers with usually very crowded vehicles so it is best to do so only if you are on a very low budget and/or have very light baggage.
Between 5:00 AM and 1:00 AM, take bus 204 east (est) (STM ) leaves from outside arrivals every 30 min to Gare Dorval (Dorval Train Station). Check that the driver is not going west (ouest) as both ways are served from almost the same place, and the sign does not say. You can also that the 209. Also, make sure to keep the ticket that the driver will give you as it is a transfer which you will need later. From Gare Dorval, use your transfer ticket to catch bus 211 or 221 to Lionel-Groulx station. Make sure it is going east as the same routes go west too. Your transfer then let you into the metro. This costs only $3, but exact change in coins only must be provided to the first driver. Take the Montmorency orange line or the Honoré-Beaugrand green line to downtown on the metro.
Between 1:00 AM and 5:00 AM, for the same price ($3, exact change in coins only), take bus 356 (again, check that the driver is going east, not west) that will take you to Atwater station at the west end of downtown, from where you can use your transfer to change buses to go to other places if necessary (the metro will be closed at this time). For example, the 360 will take you to the rest of downtown.
Plattsburgh International Airport and Burlington International Airport, both located in the US, are each about two hours' ride from Montreal. Adirondack Trailways offers a bus service between Plattsburgh International Airport and Montreal. Greyhound offers a bus service from Burlington International Airport and Montreal.
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