Public Transport to our airports - what's cheapest?

[AustraliaPoochie]

So, tapping on the Queenslands Brisbane Airport Airtrain card reader with the Go card, will elicit the 50 cent fare?
Just like that?

 

[AIRwin]

So, tapping on the Queenslands Brisbane Airport Airtrain card reader with the Go card, will elicit the 50 cent fare?
Just like that?

I haven't tried it but don't think so

 

[Brissy1]

But it’s one or the other from what I can tell. eg contactless or Opal. You can’t mix and match on different days.

Just setting it up now.
I think that you CAN mix payment methods on different days, just can't (shouldn't) on the SAME day.

 

[SYD]

Just setting it up now.
I think that you CAN mix payment methods on different days, just can't (shouldn't) on the SAME day.

I have an existing CC on my Transport NSW profile (as well as Opal). Clicking thru, it was telling me that it would cancel my Opal but there did appear to be an either / or option but no way to select it…

Decided it wasn’t worth the hassle. My Opal is down to $10 float, so no big deal plus I still get a quarterly statement of actual usage v CC/DC which will just show a $ charge.

 

[anat0l]

So, tapping on the Queenslands Brisbane Airport Airtrain card reader with the Go card, will elicit the 50 cent fare?
Just like that?

I haven't tried it but don't think so

No, Airtrain is specifically excluded from the 50c fares and the normal Airtrain fares apply.

For a while, when the 50c fares were brought in, the fares were specially lowered to around half price (I think it was $9.50), but once that honeymoon was over, they went back to the normal very expensive fares.