Alicante airport to Torrevieja bus service cut back!
Thursday, January 5, 2012 @ 5:15 PM
Airport bus service cut back
The New Year has brought bus timetable changes for the service between Torrevieja and Alicante airport. Since its launch in May last year, the service has been hourly back and forth, but as a result of the low season and the lack of people using the service, it has been decided that from this week, the service to and from the airport will now be bi-hourly.
The service will leave the Bus Station in Torrevieja on the hours of 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19, while from the airport to Torrevieja the service will depart at 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. The first and last hour services have been removed completely.
A spokesman for the bus company told RTN: “Despite the call for this service, it is being under-utilised. Sometimes buses with a capacity for 50 passengers will not even carry five passengers and therefore it isn’t cost effective for us. What is ironic is that the price for the service is a fraction of what a taxi would cost from Torrevieja to the airport, so we cannot understand why people are not using it.”
The service is currently up for tender so it remains to be seen whether or not it will continue. The message certainly seems to be that if you want it, use it!
Source: RTN