A direct train service linking the Gold Coast with Brisbane Airport will end when Cross River Rail becomes operational in 2025,and the tourist mecca’s mayor is not happy.
A CityGlider bus service and the Brisbane Metro network could better connect the city to the airport before the 2032 Games.
The operators of the AirTrain rail link to Brisbane say only the train can beat Brisbane’s traffic congestion as Brisbane’s airport link tussle heats up and ruled out a ‘fare war’.
Skybus,which runs the ‘turn-up and go’ bus service between Melbourne’s two airports and its CBD,has started operating a city-airport service in Brisbane.
Will the lack of a regular bus service to Brisbane Airport become a problem as the number of passengers double to 50 million per year over the next 20 years?
Tourists could catch a taxi,Uber or the Airtrain to the airport but for people working there every day those options were"not affordable”,the lord mayor said.