747 Montreal-Trudeau/Downtown
The 747 YUL Airport/Downtown is a shuttle bus service that runs between Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport and Gare d'autocars de Montreal, the downtown bus terminal, which is connected to the Montreal Metro at the Berri-UQAM station. There are nine additional stops in the city: Lionel-Groulx Metro station, Guy at René Lévesque Boulevard; along René Lévesque at Drummond, Peel, Mansfield (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Central Station and Place Ville Marie), Jeanne-Mance and Saint-Laurent; on Berri at Sainte-Catherine and at de Maisonneuve. The Société de transport de Montréal (STM) 747 Shuttle  Bus replaced the "Aerobus" that was privately operated by Groupe La Québécoise as a direct connection between the former Montreal central bus station and the airport. Even though the buses are regularly delayed in the highway traffic, the line is generally considered a big success and reached one million passengers a little over a year after opening. The route is named after the Boeing 747. Schedule. The service operates year-round, 24 hours a day, the only STM bus route to do so. When service first started buses ran every 30 minutes during off-peak hours and at 20-minute  intervals during the afternoon rush hour but, due to increasing demand, in 2010 the frequency of services was increased to every 10–12 minutes from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m, every 30 minutes from 5:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., and every hour from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. Subsequently, afternoon and evening service frequencies have improved further. As at autumn 2013, buses now operate every 5–7 minutes on certain busy moments. Vehicles. The route is operated using distinctively branded 2010 (29-149 to 29-156), (30-016 to 30-020) 2011 (31-001 to  31-008) and 2018 (39-001 to 39-015) Nova Bus LFS vehicles equipped with luggage racks. These buses have a modified livery to indicate they operate the 747 service, with a blue chevron logo with an aircraft pictogram in the centre of the chevron near the rear, replacing the standard STM one. Since 2011 the 16 dedicated buses have been fitted with free Wi-Fi hotspots and buses numbered 31-001 to 31-008 also have air conditioning, the only buses in STM's entire fleet so equipped with such until a new order of hybrid buses in 2016 . Due to the high demand additional conventionally decorated Nova Bus LFS are also used on this route.