{"id":140437,"date":"2025-08-12T19:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140437\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T19:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:24:14","slug":"last-call-melbourne-airport-ranked-australias-least-convenient-air-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140437\/","title":{"rendered":"Last call: Melbourne airport ranked Australia\u2019s least convenient | Air transport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne airport has been ranked Australia\u2019s least convenient, with Sydney coming in a close second-worst.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Travel insurance company iSelect ranked Australia\u2019s 11 major airports on factors like cost of transport to and from the airport, parking and queue durations, then assigned each airport an overall \u201cconvenience index\u201d score. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI live in Melbourne and I think Melbourne is one of the worst,\u201d said iSelect\u2019s Sarah Grealy, who created the airport convenience index. \u201cThe lack of transport to the airport is where it all initiated from.\u201d<\/p>\n

Townsville and Canberra airport tied for first place, scoring 7.57, compared to Melbourne\u2019s 1.86.<\/p>\n

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Grealy said the ranking is based on five criteria: average cost of parking, average transport costs from the airport (public transport and taxi), distance from the city centre, number of daily passengers and queueing times. Grealy sourced data from each airport\u2019s annual reports and used consumer reviews from third-party website Airline Quality to quantify queueing times.<\/p>\n

Smaller airports generally scored higher due to shorter queueing times and closer proximity to their cities. Cairns and Darwin came in second and third respectively.<\/p>\n

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Table showing the airport convenience index<\/a><\/p>\n

Sydney\u2019s airport had the most expensive average cost of parking, and long wait times with an overall score of 2.43. However, Melbourne airport\u2019s high average cost of parking and cost of public transport and taxis, combined with its distance from the CBD, solidified its place at the bottom of the list.<\/p>\n

A Melbourne airport spokesperson responded to the rating, saying: \u201cMelbourne airport is Australia\u2019s largest 24-hour airport and was intentionally built away from heavily built-up areas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMelbourne airport offers a range of parking options, starting from just $12 a day, which is the cheapest of any capital city airport in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Public transport to and from the airport is the responsibility of the government, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Grealy said her own frustration with Melbourne is mainly due to there being no train line. The privately owned SkyBus operates as the airport\u2019s main public transport provider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne airport has been ranked Australia\u2019s least convenient, with Sydney coming in a close second-worst. Travel insurance company…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-140437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115017434002643537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}