The St Andrews Index.
A free, public dashboard of how east Fife is moving this week. We publish it because we use it ourselves — and because nobody else will. Aircraft delays, drive times, weather windows, tee-time pressure. Updated every 30 minutes from live public feeds.
Drive times below the 12-month median, departures broadly on schedule. A good morning to be flying.
When to leave St Andrews to land at the airport stress-free.
Free-flow drive time today, hour by hour, derived from live road data and our 18-year dispatch history. The Old Course concierges use this every morning.
Best days to be in Fife.
The rest of the picture.
From £52 (Skyscanner avg, next 30 days)
Very busy — book the shuttle far ahead.
Mostly clear with high cloud · gusts to 17 mph
Edinburgh, London King's Cross, Aberdeen. We meet every one.
Across all EDI scheduled departures, last 7 days.
786 rides this month, all logged in dispatch.
Coming up across the next 12 months.
- 13 Jul – 19 JulThe Open Championship build week
- 30 Jul – 2 AugAIG Women's Open
- 12 Sept – 13 SeptThe Walker Cup
- 1 Oct – 4 OctDunhill Links Championship
We add a 45-minute buffer to every airport pickup during R&A event weeks. Roads in and out of town tighten; we plan for it so you don't have to.
What time we'd pick you up today.
For a typical departure, factoring this morning's drive time, today's EDI delay average, and the standard 90-minute airport check-in. These are the times Gordon would book.
What this week feels like, from the road.
The M90 has been moving well since the Tuesday roadworks lifted at Halbeath. We're trimming a clear five minutes off the 6am run again.
Eden estuary mist held until quarter past nine yesterday. If you're flying out before ten, give yourself the buffer — the A91 sits low.
Old Course had two opens at the weekend. Town parking pressure today is lighter than last Monday — North Street should be fine.
Saw the new TUI 737 line up at EDI Stand 19 first thing. They're still sequencing earliest-departure first; 6am flights leaving on or near time.
We publish this because we use it ourselves.
Every morning before our first run, Gordon checks four screens — Edinburgh Airport departures, the M90, the Met Office for North Fife, and the R&A calendar. We've been doing it since 2008. This page is what those four screens look like, made public, in the open.
If a number is green, your run is going to feel easy. If a number is amber or red, that's when you want to phone us instead of booking yourself a 6am Uber. We've been waking up to this picture for eighteen years; it's our job to read it for you.
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Editors at The Courier, The Herald, Golf Monthly, and the St Andrews Citizen are welcome to lift any chart, number, or quote on this page — provided it's credited to The St Andrews Index with a link.
- Edinburgh Airport delayFallback (set AVIATIONSTACK_API_KEY for live)
- Drive timeOSRM live · open-source road data
- Weather, wind & 7-day windowOpen-Meteo · Met Office composite
- Tee-time pressureOld Course Trust seasonal model
- LNER & ScotRail stopsScotRail / LNER published timetable
- R&A event calendarR&A 2026 schedule
- On-time streakInternal Pipedrive dispatch ledger
- Refresh cadenceCached at the edge for 30 minutes
The St Andrews Index · Published by St Andrews Shuttle · Issue №25