By plane
Leeds-Bradford International Airport
(http://www.lbia.co.uk). Leeds is very accessible by air. 10 miles north-west of the city centre. Budget airline Jet2 (http://www.jet2.com) offer a wide range of flights to and from Leeds, its main base. There are no flights from London to Leeds-Bradford Airport, so connections from long-haul flights should be made at Amsterdam at least 6 flights daily with Jet2 and KLM, or Paris CDG Jet2. There are direct flights to numerous other Europe cities with RyanAir (http://www.ryanair.co.uk). The only long haul flight is to Islamabad in Pakistan.There is a regular bus service the 757 into the city journey time 35 minutes and cabs are plentiful.
Manchester Airport is also easily reached by train journey time 1 hr 17mins with a much larger choice of international flights.
By ship
The ferry can be caught from mainland Europe; Zeebrugge, Belgium or Rotterdam, The Netherlands to Kingston Upon Hull, which is approximately an hour from Leeds by car/train.
By train
The busy, modern railway station (http://www.nationalrail.co.uk) occasionally called Leeds City Station, one of the biggest in the country with regular trains to a huge range of destinations all over the UK, is in the heart of the centre just off City Square.
East Coast
(http://www.eastcoast.co.uk) - serve London Kings Cross 2-2.5hr.First TransPennine Express
(http://www.tpexpress.co.uk) - serve Dewsbury, Huddersfield 30 min, Stalybridge, Manchester 1hr, Hull, Manchester Airport see above, Liverpool, York 20-30 min, Scarborough 90 min and Newcastle 90 min.Northern Rail
(http://www.northernrail.co.uk) - serve Bradford, the scenic Settle-Carlisle route and intermediate stations to Manchester.Wikitravel has a guide to Rail travel in the United Kingdom.
By car
Leeds is possibly the best connected UK city by road, lying in the centre of the country, halfway between London and Edinburgh and halfway between Liverpool west coast and Hull east coast. The M1 motorway runs from London via Milton Keynes, Leicester, Nottingham, and Sheffield and passes about 2 miles east of Leeds, to join the A1M at Wetherby. The M62 trans-Pennine motorway, which runs from the outskirts of Liverpool to a few miles from Hull, passes about 3 miles to the south of Leeds. The M621 motorway loop just to the south of the city centre, and connects with the M1 and M62. The Scott Hall Road scheme features a park and ride site to the north of Leeds, opened in the 1990s and caters for 157 cars. For much of the journey into Leeds, buses run on a guided busway beside or down the middle of the main road and are given priority over cars. See National Park and Ride Directory (http://www.parkandride.net/leeds/leeds_frameset.shtml.WhizzGo, a national car 'club' i.e. car hire organisation which charges a £50 annual membership fee has a branch in Leeds, and offers pay-by-the-hour car hire across the city. Cars are accessible via a smart card and PIN. (http://www.whizzgo.co.uk)