AirTrain (Brisbane)

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AirTrain logo

Northern Lines
QR CityTrain Lines
	Caboolture
	Ferny Grove
	Shorncliffe
	Doomben
	Airport
	Exhibition
Southern/Western Lines
	Ipswich
	Beenleigh
	Corinda via South Brisbane
	Cleveland
	Springfield (proposed)
Inter-urban lines
	Gold Coast (Robina)
	Nambour & Gympie North
	Rosewood
List of CityTrain stations

AirTrain is the name given to the rail service connecting the Domestic and International Terminals of Brisbane Airport to central Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and also to the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The motto for the AirTrain is: "Catch the train – make the 'plane".

AirTrain advertises that it stops at five Brisbane CBD stations (South Bank, South Brisbane, Roma Street, Central and Brunswick Street), but it also stops at Bowen Hills and Eagle Junction. In addition to the inner city stops, the services continuing to Gold Coast stops at Yeerongpilly and Loganlea in off-peak.

The railway line is both elevated and single track for much of its length.

AirTrain services run every fifteen minutes during the morning and afternoon weekday peak hours to the Domestic and International Terminals of the Brisbane Airport from the Brisbane city stations, and run every half hour during the off-peak. A service, around every half hour regardless of time of day, continues through to the Gold Coast.

The AirTrain is under joint public/private control. It connects with the CityTrain rail network and uses CityTrain rolling stock. Although it utilises CityTrain rollingstock such as the IMU sets, AirTrain does not form part of the TransLink integrated public transport service, and therefore use of its service requires users to pay more (for travel to and from the Airport).

To use the service from stations between South Bank and Eagle Junction on journeys expressly to and from Brisbane Airport, costs $11 each way. Concession fares are not offered for the AirTrain's Airport travel. However, child fares apply.

Travel on the AirTrain between ordinary CityTrain stations, which do not include Airport travel, is charged at the usual (lower) CityTrain rate, including concession rates (i.e. it is only when the AirTrain service includes actual travel to and from the Brisbane Airport that the charge is higher than the CityTrain fare).

As of 21 April 2005, Brisbane Airport Corporation announced that the AirTrain service would be running at a profit for the first time, due to passenger growth and managerial restructuring of the operator. This has not stopped calls for the service to be brought within the Translink price structure, which would mean a service nearly four times cheaper. ^{[citation needed]}