Airport Link is also considering extending group discounts for train journeys to other stations around metropolitan Sydney at a later date if State Rail agrees to the idea. But the discounts will not be available for journeys to the airport because State Rail fares are subject to regulations. Airport Link has started to consider ways to address the low use of the line. It plans to offer a range of fares that make the service more attractive than taxi, buses or private vehicles. The group discount will be available within two weeks.
People look at the cost of the train fare.
And when the traveller factors in he or she can be at Circular Quay within 16 minutes by train, well, we've really got something to counter our opposition with. Mr Iverach confirmed that line patronage since the link opened eight weeks ago was running at 10,000 passengers a day, down from the optimistic predictions of 1993-95, when the service was mooted, of 46,000 passengers a day. The corporate world has picked up on us rather quickly. And overseas visitors, especially Europeans, make for the train at the international terminal because that is what they're used to back home. Our main difficulties have been in attracting suburban passengers.