International flights to Gothenburg use Landvetter airport, while domestic services mainly use the closer Gothenburg City Airport. If your preferred airline doesn’t fly direct to Gothenburg it will fly to the Scandinavian hub Copenhagen, from where a 35 minute hop will bring you to Gothenburg. SAS is the main carrier, either direct or via Copenhagen.
Landvetter is 25km east of the city centre and is served by several bus services including route 160, which runs between the airport and the city centre every 15-30 minutes. Gothenburg City Airport is only 10km from the city centre. It is used mostly by charter flights and some low-fare airlines including Ryanair who have two daily flights from London Stansted. Ryanair operate a bus service between the airport and central Gothenburg; the bus leaves the airport 30 minutes after each flight and departs from the bus terminal 90 minutes before each flight. This is perhaps the only airport that Ryanair uses that is actually closer to the city centre than the regular destination.
Long-distance buses which serve Sweden, Norway and also south across most of Europe, arrive and depart from the Nils Ericson bus terminal next to Gothenburg’s Central station.
Trains terminate at the Central station at Drottningtorget in the centre of Gothenburg. Most tram routes stop outside the station. Train routes link to the whole of Europe, and beyond if you take the connections via the Russian Steppes or the Balkans to Asia.
As befits a major port, there are frequent, modern ferries running from here to ports in Denmark, Germany, Norway and the UK. Fast SeaCats run on the shorter routes, the remainder are served by huge conventional ferries.
Try www.sas.se for SAS flight information, for general travel help try www.visit-sweden.com and for specific rail travel planning, try www.seat61.com.