It’s called the Airport bus for a very good reason

Wednesday 31st December 2008, 2:59PM GMT.

From Richard Cole.
WITH reference to the letter headlined ‘If you want to go to the Airport with luggage, the bus is not the way’ (JEP, 15 December), it is a long time since I have read such utter rubbish.

It is named the Airport bus, for goodness sake. If it is not intended for air travellers with baggage, Connex should say so and change the name.

If this correspondent has ever been out of his cab and travelled the world, maybe he could enlighten us as to which country he was in that had an airport bus or coach with no facilities for baggage?

An airport bus should be designated for the purpose of carrying passengers with luggage. If there are seats still available for baggage-free passengers, happy days.

This Island wants to make its mind up, pollutionwise, whether it wants 15 taxis – if you can get them – or one bus or coach.

I am fortunate that, although eligible for a bus pass years ago, my family have no wish for me to start my holiday with a suitcase on my lap, but I do see the point of disgruntled air travellers.
85 Elm Court,
Trinity Hill,
St Helier.

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Kay

January 5, 2009 at 4:13 pm

It’s also worth mentioning in response to the original letter that at least one other bus service serves most of the airport route, so the aiport bus really is to go to the airport. And if more of the people who get off before the airport used one of the other many busses heading towards St. Aubin there would be much more space.

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Richard

January 6, 2009 at 12:05 am

One would have thought that tourism would have picked up on the fact that the “airport bus” has been allowed to function without any facility for luggage for several years.By and large,those local passengers that also use the service as part of the local network, view those with luggage as pariahs.This is no good introduction to Jersey.

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