Much to my surprise and delight, I have email from the boss of the VHA Airport Shuttle company whose services I wrote about from Melbourne. Apparently I got the service times wrong, and they should be as follows:

• City to airport 6.00 am First Shuttle, Last Shuttle City to airport 8.00pm.
• Airport to city First shuttle 8.00am, Last shuttle Airport to City 8.00pm

Possibly more importantly I’m told that if you pre-book and pre-pay then you can get tickets for AU$11.50 each way, which is cheaper than the bus.

Obviously things could change by next year, but I’m going to put them in touch with A4 and with any luck some sort of a deal will get done.