Inverness to Edinburgh flight
Flights from Inverness to Edinburgh start at €31.41 and take 3h 50m at their fastest.
The Flights from Inverness to Edinburgh starts at €31.41 and takes 3h 50m door to door, run by 1 operator over 186 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.
- 3h 50mDoor to door
- 40mMoving
- €31.41From
- 45.8 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
No bookable itinerary on the day this page prices, so none is shown.
Airlines
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loganair | €31.41 | 3h 49m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
That is the travelling done. What happens after you walk out into Edinburgh is not something we sell.
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When to book Inverness to Edinburgh
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €27.8490 days
- €21.7960 days
- €17.3945 days
- €22.8930 days
- €28.3921 days
- €36.1314 days
- €43.247 days
- €39.673 days
- €55.011 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €17.39.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 216 percent. The dearest point is €55.01, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €33.77Sun
- €30.04Mon
- €30.03Tue
- €33.33Wed
- €35.54Thu
- €33.34Fri
- €36.13Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Inverness
- INV
Edinburgh
- EDI
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 186 km against 181 km in a straight line, a detour of 2 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Coatbridge, Cumbernauld, Perth, Glasgow. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Inverness at 06:49 and the last at 06:49, across 1 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Flights against the other ways to make this journey
The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 2h 14m | 1h 30m | 44m | €30.03 | 6.0 kg | 5 |
| Flight | 3h 50m | 40m | 3h 10m | €31.41 | 45.8 kg | 1 |
Questions about Inverness to Edinburgh
The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does the Flight from Inverness to Edinburgh take?
The Flight from Inverness to Edinburgh takes 3h 50m door to door, of which 40m is spent moving. The route runs 186 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
How much does the Flight from Inverness to Edinburgh cost?
The Flight from Inverness to Edinburgh starts at €31.41 for one passenger, checked on 12 September 2026. A typical fare is €31.41. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Flight from Inverness to Edinburgh?
1 operators run the Flight from Inverness to Edinburgh: Loganair. Between them they file around 1 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
Which terminal does the Flight from Inverness to Edinburgh use?
The Flight from Inverness to Edinburgh leaves from Inverness INV and arrives at Edinburgh EDI. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
Is the Flight the best way from Inverness to Edinburgh?
Travelling from Inverness to Edinburgh by Train costs €30.03 and takes 2h 14m door to door, against 3h 50m by Flight. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.
When should I book the Flight from Inverness to Edinburgh?
Fares for the Flight from Inverness to Edinburgh bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €17.39. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 216 percent, measured on 12 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Flight from Inverness to Edinburgh produce?
The Flight from Inverness to Edinburgh produces about 45.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 186 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
Where these numbers come from
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Inverness to Edinburgh on 12 September 2026: 186 km of route against 181 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €31.41, and 3h 50m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Related journeys
Landing at EDI after the trains have stopped is the case this solves. We do not run cars.
Getting from EDI into Edinburgh
A price agreed before you fly, a driver at arrivals, and a car big enough for the bags.
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