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Travel to Northern Ireland

Flying to Northern Ireland

There are frequent direct flights to Belfast from London airports as well as other major regional UK airports. Airlines that serve Northern Ireland from the UK include bmibaby (www.bmibaby.com) and easyJet (www.easyjet.com), which also flies between Belfast and several other European cities. From North America, Aer Lingus (www.aerlingus.com) operates flights to Shannon and Dublin.

Flight times:

From London to Belfast is 1 hour 15 minutes.

Departure tax:

None.

Travel by rail

There are four main rail routes from Belfast Central Station: north to Londonderry via Ballymena and Coleraine; northeast to the port of Larne; east to Bangor along the shores of Belfast Lough; south to Dublin, in the Irish Republic, via Newry. The Belfast-Dublin non-stop express takes approximately two hours.

For information on timetables for rail services, contact Translink (www.translink.co.uk).

Getting to Northern Ireland by boat

Belfast (www.belfast-harbour.co.uk).

Ferry operators:

When travelling via Great Britain to Northern Ireland there is a choice of several services across the Irish Sea; providers include P&O Irish Sea (www.poirishsea.com); Stena Line (www.stenaline.co.uk); and Norfolkline Irish Sea Ferry Services (www.norfolkline-ferries.co.uk).

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