Getting from Mackay Airport to the city

Route 303

• Mackay Transit Coaches runs route 303, Caneland Central to Mackay Airport via the city.
• About 52 scheduled calls, 07:14 to 18:17. That is a handful of trips a day rather than a frequent service.
• The stop is named Mackay Airport, about 630 metres from the runway reference point.
• Caneland Central is the shopping centre by the Pioneer river, and the hub of the local network.

What else is near

• Route 302, Caneland Central to East Mackay via the city, 06:47 to 17:51, about 78 calls, but it does not serve the terminal.
• Goldsmith Street at Keelan Street, about a kilometre away.
• Petrie Street at Beverley Street and Bridge Road at Hart Street, both about 1.1 to 1.2 km.

Practical shape

• The airport is only about 3 km from the centre of Mackay. A taxi is short and inexpensive.
• Nothing runs in the evening, and the Brisbane flights that arrive after six are common.
• Mackay is the gateway to the Whitsundays from the south and to the Pioneer Valley and Eungella National Park inland.

Note on the region

• Mackay's economy is built on sugar cane and coal, and the airport carries a large volume of mining workers on fly-in fly-out rosters.
• That shapes the flight schedule, with heavy early morning and late afternoon peaks.