Six million people a year would use train to Melbourne Airport

[Melburnian1]

While the myki cards do expire (for some unknown reason), note that any unused balance can be transferred to a new card free of charge.

It's to do with whatever warranty was agreed at the time of the contract signing back in, I think, 2005 or 2006.

 

[whatmeworry]

Melbourne Metro says it won't support a Airport Link.

But the most recent service plan for Melbourne Metro, published in the 2016 business case, makes no mention of a rail line to Melbourne Airport.
Rather, it predicts the tunnel will be used by up to 14 trains an hour to and from Sunbury and nine trains to and from Melton. It will handle 23 trains an hour, which would leave no capacity for an airport line.

Government warned Melbourne Metro won't support future airport rail link

 

[PLANT]

Skybus..... Must have met the Metro board..... XMAS comes early for Metro board members cough cough

 

[JessicaTam]

Melbourne Metro says it won't support a Airport Link.



Government warned Melbourne Metro won't support future airport rail link

And there was I believing the new tunnel was the precursor to the airport rail link.

 

[cove]

If you want to be the troll just get shares in the toll road to your airport. Transurban charge what the market can bear.

 

[Cool Cat Phil]

Skybus..... Must have met the Metro board..... XMAS comes early for Metro board members cough cough

The owners of Skybus ( The Canadian Pension Fund) have been rumoured to be rather friendly and influencing in Victorian political circles as well.

 

[ozmille]

I fly out the night before these days for meetings in MEL, just don't want to run the risk of being late because of traffic

 

[whatmeworry]

I still don't know why they can't do a service between the Airport and Sunshine Train Station.

 

[PLANT]

^I guess the answer is... Morons or Skybus.... You choose!

 

[whatmeworry]

Reports the Federal Government will provide funding for the rail link.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is throwing his support behind a rail link to Melbourne Airport, but the Victorian Government has said the money should be spent on projects that are ready to go.

Mr Turnbull refused to confirm reports that the funding for the project would be included in the May federal budget but acknowledged on Fairfax Radio it was a plan that had been studied by previous Liberal governments.

Melbourne Airport rail link gets PM's nod, while Victorian Government wants to spend money elsewhere - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

[docjames]

Reports the Federal Government will provide funding for the rail link.



Melbourne Airport rail link gets PM's nod, while Victorian Government wants to spend money elsewhere - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

On Melbourne radio yesterday, Feds offering $1bn in "infrastructure funding" out of supposed likely budget of $5bn.

Sounds like politicking and not actual money.....

(would love to be proven wrong.)

 

[dajop]

On Melbourne radio yesterday, Feds offering $1bn in "infrastructure funding" out of supposed likely budget of $5bn.

Sounds like politicking and not actual money.....

(would love to be proven wrong.)

Sounds like Utopia to me.

 

[whatmeworry]

On Melbourne radio yesterday, Feds offering $1bn in "infrastructure funding" out of supposed likely budget of $5bn.

Sounds like politicking and not actual money.....

(would love to be proven wrong.)

It's funny because the federal government offered cash for a road project which got cancelled by a state government which then started a public transport project which says it can't start another rail project to the airport till it finishes it's current rail project.

It all feels Yes Minister.

 

[whatmeworry]

Building an airport link may come down to $7.96.

Sydney's airport rail line is held up as a template for Melbourne and although Kingsford Smith is much closer to the city centre it shares with Tullamarine a critical characteristic: both are operated under 99-year leases from the federal government and their operators have the final say on what gets built on the land they control.

That's why it costs train commuters almost $8 to travel the one extra stop – less than 90 seconds of train time – from Mascot station, located outside Sydney airport, to the domestic terminal station located on the airport site. How does Sydney Airport get away with this legalised larceny? Quite simply it seems. As a lessee it's allowed to charge whatever it likes for having a station built on its premises.

If the federal government wants to impress Victorians with its forthcoming announcement of airport rail link funding I have a simple suggestion. Announce at the same time that the ACCC will be given the power to regulate airport transport access charges, something the regulator has been seeking. That way not only will the likelihood of an airport rail link improve but it will be a fairer service for all who ultimately use it.

A rail link to Melbourne Airport could come down to $7.96

 

[ric_melb]

The article stating that Sydney Airport were receiving $7.96 per passenger for the Station Access Fee didn't sound right to me as I'd read an article in the SMH indicating that the NSW Government recieved $69 million in 2016 from the SAF.
The position from my other reading is that the Airport Link Company owns the line and the stations and receives the SAF. It then has various agreements with the NSW government one of which that Airport Link receives a certain amount from base fees, then the NSW government receives 85% of the revenue above the base, eg $69 million last year.
Without detailed research I cannot see that Sydney Airport own any of Airport Link Company. Airport Link is a company that financed the Link and runs the stations.
If this is all so it does not seem that Melbourne Airport would receive any amount from SAF unless it contributed to the building of the Link.

Others may know know more than me but it presents a different view from that of the article above.

 

[whatmeworry]

MEL airport wants a rail link with a projection of 70 million to use MEL per year.

The number of passengers passing through Melbourne Airport will double to 70 million a year over the next two decades, according to the airport's boss, who says plans for rail and road infrastructure must be put in place now to handle such growth.
Melbourne Airport chief executive officer Lyell Strambi said the expansion of the Tullamarine Freeway was welcome but could return to gridlock in as few as 10 years.

Infrastructure Victoria has said the link would be needed within the next 15 to 30 years and would cost up to $5 billion.
While advocating the rail link, Mr Strambi stopped short of saying the airport would itself invest in the project, saying the government-led study had to settle on what the project would look like first.

Heading for 70m passengers a year, Melbourne Airport calls for rail link action

 

[Melburnian1]

MEL airport wants a rail link with a projection of 70 million to use MEL per year....

While history suggests that this will be achieved, at present growth is starting to decline, at least from what the increases were a few months ago. The SYD - MEL route is doing well in terms of rising passenger numbers but some others are not.

 

[whatmeworry]

While history suggests that this will be achieved, at present growth is starting to decline, at least from what the increases were a few months ago. The SYD - MEL route is doing well in terms of rising passenger numbers but some others are not.

The MEL airport corporation is factoring in another runway in addition to the extra international pax that SYD can't handle IIRC.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

The MEL airport corporation is factoring in another runway in addition to the extra international pax that SYD can't handle IIRC.

Plus with population growth Melbourne is Australia's fastest growing major city at present.
Bursting at the seams: what you don't know about Melbourne's runaway growth

 

[PLANT]

Seems Skybus didn't make it's kickback payment on time this month for the airport chief? He is not happy!!!!