Getting from Devi Ahilyabai Holkar International Airport to the city

The city buses

• Atal Indore City Transport Services, AICTSL, runs Indore's buses on a colour coded network rather than by route number alone.
• Orange is the airport colour. All Orange buses run towards the airport along Bond Road, and all of them reach Bada Ganpati Square.
• Fares are 20 to 50 rupees.
• Routes 7 and 11 serve the railway station, Bhanwar Kua and Tejaji Nagar, which covers most of what visitors need.
• The service is daytime only and limited. For an evening arrival, plan on a taxi.

The coaches

• AICTSL also runs intercity air conditioned Volvo coaches from the airport, which is unusual: this is a city bus operator running long distance services.
• Destinations include Bhopal, Burhanpur, Sagar, Chhindwara, Khargone, Ratlam and Ahmedabad.
• Ahmedabad is in the next state, and this coach is a genuine alternative to flying on.
• For Bhopal in particular, the coach from the airport avoids going into Indore first.

Taxis

• Metro Taxi and Star Cab have counters in the arrivals hall.
• App based cabs operate as well.
• The journey is 8 km and 20 to 30 minutes, so nothing here is expensive by Indian airport standards.

The name

• The airport is named after Ahilyabai Holkar, the eighteenth century Maratha queen of Indore, and is written both as Devi Ahilyabai Holkar and Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar.
• Both spellings appear on signs and tickets. They are the same airport.