Getting Bus to Melbourne Airport from Melbourne City Center

Getting to the Airport by Bus

Update:

Skybus now has free WiFi on-board. In comparison to other countries this.
“Free WiFi” is most disappointing.
First they do not respect your privacy and request for personal information.
Secondly the amount of download offered is minuscule.
There is a huge room for improvement here.

Getting to Melbourne Airport or vice versa is not cheap it is however fairly easy.

A one way trip takes approximately 20 minutes, obviously depending on traffic conditions peak hour will take longer.

First make your way down to Southern Cross Station
click here for Melbourne’s public transport website.

Arriving at Southern Cross Station By Tram

If you are coming in by Tram get off at Tram stop

• #1 (corner of Bourke Street and Spencer Street)
  Or
• #112 (Spencer Street and Little Collins Streets)

Make your way down into the entrance located between Pie Face and Hungry Jacks and turn right. There is plenty of signage there to guide you through.

Next most likely you will see a red colored Skybus waiting as pictured below.
There is no reason to rush as there is another bus every 10 minutes.

 Buying a Skybus Ticket

Just head on over to the Skybus ticketing booth and purchase from a choice of the following

• $18 Adult – one-way*
• $30 Adult – return*
• $25 Family 1 – one-way* (1 adult and up to 4 children)
• $43 Family 1 – return* (1 adult and up to 4 children)
• $41 Family 2 – one-way* (2 adults and up to 4 children)
• $70 Family 2 – return* (2 adults and up to 4 children)
• Tickets are valid three months from date of purchase. Prices include airport access, road tolls and GST. Children traveling under ‘child fare’ tickets must be 4-14 years of age.

The bus will pick you up from Southern Cross bus terminal #1 which is located right next to the Skybus ticketing booth.

visit the Skybus website for further details

 Arriving at Melbourne Airport by Skybus

Melbourne Airport has 3 Terminals.
The Skybus service makes two stops at Melbourne Airport

• Stop 1: Terminal T3 – for Virgin Blue domestic, Tiger Airways, Regional Express, and all travellers on international flights.
• Stop 2: Terminal T1 – for Qantas domestic, QantasLink and Jetstar domestic travellers.

If you need to get to Terminal two, get of either Stop1\Terminal3 or Stop2\Termainal1 as Terminal 2 is located in the middle of the two.