Tickets sales rocket on airport line as prices plunge

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From SMH 09/06/2011

IT WAS once unloved and unused. But patronage on Sydney's Airport Line, which has the only privately owned stations on the CityRail network, has exploded since the former Labor government started subsidising fares on two stations.

Read more: Sydney Airport Line | Prices fall, ticket sales surge

 

[Mrmaxwell]

Thanks for posting this...

I just love this part;

(Sydney) airport's general manager of corporate affairs, Rod Gilmour, recently wrote to all federal and state MPs with electorates on the Airport & East Hills, Eastern Suburbs or Illawarra lines urging them to campaign for the government to subsidise the $11.80 one-way fee to airport stations.

''There is no public policy reason why the 16,000 workers at Sydney Airport should be the only commuters in NSW who have to pay a surcharge to use public transport to get to work,'' Mr Gilmour wrote.

Your employer, Mr Gilmour, are the kings of surcharges.

Idiot.

 

[Justchecking]

How about not letting private companies own public infrastructure.

 

[medhead]

Surely airport staff would buy a weekly gate pass for $18.

 

[brett-au]

Hmm. So I can get to green square for $3.20 from Central. Can anyone see an alternative to get to domestic that doesn't cost $11.80.

 

[SFSC]

Hmm. So I can get to green square for $3.20 from Central. Can anyone see an alternative to get to domestic that doesn't cost $11.80.

Mascot is also now $3.20 (since March this year). Getting from Mascot to Domestic was discussed in this thread

 

[medhead]

Hmm. So I can get to green square for $3.20 from Central. Can anyone see an alternative to get to domestic that doesn't cost $11.80.

As mentioned go to mascot $3.20 and get the 400 bus $2. Note $11.80 is the cost of the gate pass you still need to add $3.20 for the train fare. Hence a ticket machine fare central to domestic is $15. You can pre order tickets from airport link for $13.40.

Getting from the airport, if you have a suburban train ticket covering those stations the cheapest option is an international/ domestic transfer ticket for $5.

 

[Mrmaxwell]

Getting from the airport, if you have a suburban train ticket covering those stations the cheapest option is an international/ domestic transfer ticket for $5.

Never thought of this...sneaky - and I like it