Costed comparison
Reaching Beauvais airport: what each option actually costs
On a €30 ticket, the ride to the terminal sometimes weighs more than the flight. Most guides stop at announcing the €1 bus without saying when it runs, or what the fallback costs. Here are the official fares, set side by side, with the per-traveller arithmetic.
The six options, at the official fare
Every figure below comes from the fare tables published by the airport and by the Corolis network. Per-person and per-vehicle pricing is flagged, because that is where comparisons most often go wrong.
| Option | Fare | Unit | Journey | Available from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corolis bus route 6 | €1 | per person | 15 min | 7.55am |
| Navette Express (line NA) | €4 | per person | 34 min | 4.15am |
| Taxi from Beauvais, daytime | €17 | per car | 10 min | 7am to 7pm |
| Taxi from Beauvais, night | €21 | per car | 10 min | any hour |
| Aérobus from Paris Porte Maillot | €17.90 | per person | 1h15 | 3.00am |
| Airport car park P4 | €15 | per car per day | 10 min on foot | any hour |
Journey times measured from the centre of Beauvais, except for the Aérobus. The taxi night fare applies from 7pm to 7am, and on Sundays and public holidays. The Aérobus figure is the online fare, €18 on board. P4 can only be booked on the airport's own site.
At how many travellers does a taxi start to make sense?
The question comes up constantly, and the answer is surprising. The shuttle stays cheaper whatever the size of the group, but the gap narrows to the point of being trivial from four people onwards.
| Travellers | Navette Express | Night taxi | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 person | €4 | €21 | €17 |
| 2 people | €8 | €21 | €13 |
| 3 people | €12 | €21 | €9 |
| 4 people | €16 | €21 | €5 |
Beyond four adults, the taxi charges €3 per additional passenger, and carrying a fifth passenger assumes a suitable vehicle, which is not guaranteed.
For a family of four, then, five euros separate the shuttle from the taxi. What really changes is not the price but the alarm clock. The first shuttle leaves the town centre at 4.15am, and the next one not until 6.15am. A taxi ordered the day before lets you leave when you choose. For a 7.30am flight that is close to two extra hours of sleep for the price of a coffee each.
If you are staying in the airport area the question does not arise the same way. The places to stay near the terminals spare you the transfer altogether, and the five Tillé rentals are within walking distance, luggage included.
How long before the flight should you arrive?
This figure drives everything else, since it decides which shuttle you need. The airport publishes two different answers, and the gap between them is not trivial.
- Its page on arriving at the airport advises 1h30 to 2h before a flight within the European Union or the Schengen area, and 2h to 3h for a destination outside Schengen.
- Its own FAQ advises being there between 1h and 1h30 before the flight, without distinguishing by destination.
Faced with that contradiction, take the higher bracket. The airport is separately displaying a notice about longer queues at security, and a passenger refused boarding on a low-cost flight recovers nothing. For a 6.30am Schengen flight, aiming to be there at 4.30am means the 4.15am shuttle, or a taxi.
What the town centre really costs you
Staying in the town centre costs one extra transfer, and it is easy to price once and for all. For a couple on an early flight the Navette Express comes to €8, against nothing from an airport-area hotel. Set against that, town-centre rooms are often cheaper, and you dine among independent restaurants rather than in a business park.
The trade-off therefore turns on about fifteen euros and one hour of sleep, not on a budget chasm. It tips decisively in two cases. If your flight leaves after 9.30am on a weekday, the €1 bus is finally running and the town centre becomes the best value in this guide. If your flight leaves before 6am, the 4.15am shuttle becomes a hard constraint, and you are better off sleeping near the terminals.
Stop-by-stop timings are set out in our early flight guide, which also explains that the terminals close overnight and that waiting for your flight in the hall is not possible at Beauvais.
Three options that rarely get mentioned
They do not suit everyone, but each settles a specific case.
Route 601 from Amiens
Run by Oise Mobilité, it serves the airport seven days a week at regional fares. It is the only direct link for travellers coming from the north, who otherwise route through Beauvais with a change.
Pony e-scooters
The self-service scheme charges €1 to unlock then €0.26 a minute, and the airport publishes a promotional code giving thirty free minutes. Over the 6.5 km between the centre and the terminal, this stays an option for light travellers and daytime departures only.
Shared transfers
Offered from €39.99 per person, they run around the clock and adapt to flight delays. The fare only makes sense for a lone traveller landing in the middle of the night, a case in which the night taxi is still cheaper.
Fares taken from the official Paris-Beauvais airport pages on taxis, car parks, the Aérobus shuttle and getting to the airport, together with the timetables published by Corolis. Taxi fares are given as indicative by the airport. Comparison compiled in August 2026.