Through tickets to Bristol Airport

[AdamWW]

Are through tickets to Bristol Airport via the Airport Flyer no longer available?

Neither National Rail now GWR seem to want to sell me one, and Crosscountry don't even appear to have it as a destination.

The Bristol Flyer web site says there's a rail ticket machine in the airport which will sell through tickets to UK rail destinations but maybe it's out of date.

 

[Cornish Pasty]

On the GWR site use the station code QAE for the bus

Better still use the forum ticketing site using the station code XPB for the bus.

 

[superalbs]

Are through tickets to Bristol Airport via the Airport Flyer no longer available?

Neither National Rail now GWR seem to want to sell me one, and Crosscountry don't even appear to have it as a destination.

The Bristol Flyer web site says there's a rail ticket machine in the airport which will sell through tickets to UK rail destinations but maybe it's out of date.

Still there as of two weeks ago.

 

[AdamWW]

On the GWR site use the station code QAE for the bus

Better still use the forum ticketing site using the station code XPB for the bus.

Thanks

I did try QAE and it couldn't find any journeys.

Trainsplit works just fine...should have tried that.

I usually use trainsplit (via the forum) to buy tickets but not to look for direct fares because I don't get on with the user interface very well.

Though it looks as if the train fare + separate bus fare is the same as the through fare, though railcard discounts seem to get applied to the whole fare not just the rail component so that's something...

 

[yorkie]

Thanks

I did try QAE and it couldn't find any journeys.

Trainsplit works just fine...should have tried that.

I usually use trainsplit (via the forum) to buy tickets but not to look for direct fares because I don't get on with the user interface very well.

Tip: you may prefer the new user interface; the plain Trainsplit will offer you the option to try it. The forum site could move over to the new interface next week, I am told.

 

[SargeNpton]

With the introduction of another airport connection via Weston-super-Mare a few months ago (the A3 bus), the links to the airport were re-jigged.

QAE deals with fares via Bristol Temple Meads and QAF for fares via Weston-super-Mare. Both of those link to XPB as the actual timetable destination for the buses. Experience suggests that different journey planners deal with that situation successfully and some don't.