Translation of minimize in Spanish

I ran across the bridge to reach the other terminal and asked at the check in counter which connecting flights were still available. I wanted to avoid having to drive into the city at any cost.
If I look at dictionaries they do not give long sentences, only specific words and their meaning when they are used in a compounded form, which by the way can mean something totally different than when used by themselves.
When I was in Austria, I went to ski school for a week in Kitzbuehel. Do you know this place? It's not far away from Munich. We always fly to Munich, with a stopover at Frankfurt airport.