Getting from Coffs Harbour Airport to the city

What actually runs

• A stop named Coffs Harbour Airport, Airport Drive appears in the New South Wales network data about 370 metres from the runway reference point.
• Route 364, Sawtell to Coffs Harbour via Hogbin Drive, is the only route serving it.
• It shows only a handful of scheduled calls, between 09:08 and 16:28.

Why that is a problem

• Regional flights to Sydney and Melbourne cluster in the early morning and the evening.
• The bus covers neither. If your flight is at seven in the morning or lands at eight at night, this route is irrelevant.
• Taxis meet flights, and the airport is on the southern edge of the city, so the fare is short.

Getting oriented

• Sawtell is the beach village just south, with a well-known main street.
• Hogbin Drive runs up the coast into Coffs Harbour itself.
• The Pacific Highway passes the city, and long distance coaches use it, though not from the airport.

The region

• Coffs Harbour is on the New South Wales mid north coast, roughly halfway between Sydney and Brisbane.
• The Solitary Islands Marine Park is offshore, and the Dorrigo plateau rainforest inland.
• The Big Banana on the highway is the city's best known landmark, for better or worse.