Getting from Niš Airport
City bus 34 runs to the terminal for 80 dinars, and taxis are also available.
Bus 34
Public transport is provided by bus line number 34. The line is a circular route, so it has two route options: 34A (faster for the journey from the airport) and 34B (faster for the journey to the airport).
Buses run approximately every 20 to 40 minutes from about 5:50 to 22:00. A detailed timetable can be found on the official website (in Serbian only): jgpnis.rs/red-voznje. The exact departure times can also be found on the Gradski Prevoz Niš mobile app (only on Google Play).
Ticket valid for 1 ride costs 80 rsd and is payable to the conductor inside the bus in cash only.
Taxi
The well-known mobile apps like Uber or Bolt don't work in Niš, but there are always plenty of regular taxis outside the terminal.
Prices from the airport to the centre are flat and cost about 850 rsd.
Car rental
There are several car rental counters in the arrivals hall, allowing you to head out to explore the Serbian countryside and mountains, where public transport is not very busy.
Prices for 4-day rentals start at 60 eur.
You can rent a car at Niš Airport from Avis, Budget, Hertz, Alamo, Sixt or Firefly, to name a few.
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The new terminal began serving departures on 24 July 2024. We arrived on 28 September at the old one, which is still used for arrivals. However, the car rental, ATM and toilets are already in the new terminal if you need any of that after you arrive. There is also an IQOS kiosk, the only one still open, contrary to the information. :D This time, however, we withdrew 10,000 RSD from the ATM at the airport with a 400 RSD fee to the local bank. Taxi drivers were bothering everywhere, but not too much. The bus stop was unmarked across 2 roads from the terminal (after the exit opposite) - it's like 2 booths next to each other with no signs, posters, timetables... But! Niš now has its own public transport app and there, as well as on Google Maps you can see the timetables. Taxi from the airport worked Yandex, the price was 420 RSD, but by the time we got off the plane the taxi had disappeared. So, yes, a bus ticket for 80 RSD. :)
On our flight the next day to Belgrade ($17 USD with AirSerbia - available twice a week on all dates for the same price - either 4:30am A319 or around 10am ATR72) they didn't start letting us into the check-in area until about an hour before departure. So, nothing has changed here. There is still Duty Free in the terminal and their prices are in EUR, where they wouldn't even sell us water (for €1.70). Probably because we were flying domestically?
Any other app than the one mentioned in the text?
The new terminal works fine, but it's only for departures, arrivals are at the old one next door.
Don't worry about data at the airport, either activate an e-sim beforehand or buy a local physical SIM at the centre afterwards, you need a passport for prepaid too.
I took a taxi from the airport, avoid the chasers - but there are a few and go for a marked taxi, like PrviTaxi Niš, they have green and white cars, you can pay with a card (phone), I paid 145Kč to the centre, they run on a meter. They do have their app, but it's unusable, it doesn't know the address of the airport, for example, but you just can't find the app itself. The alternative is Yandex Taxi, the app is fine, only early in the morning when Ryanair flies to Vienna, so in the whole city there are two cars from them, so the chance to catch one is small.
As for accommodation, I stayed at the Garni Consul hotel, the price through booking was 800Kč for a single room and night, breakfast is for I think 4€, I didn't survive. For beer lovers there is a "MINISTARSTVO Beer Bar" about 100m from the hotel, there were 19 beers on tap, everyone can choose. :-)
Since you can pay practically everywhere by card, you don't even need to withdraw their money, when the bank will take a fee of 400 to 500RSD. In the end I spent the money on the way back by taxi, even though you could pay by card.