Airport Metro station

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Location
Airport
Place	Woolsington
Local authority	Newcastle
Fare zone information
Network Zone	06 & 07
Metro Zone	C
History
Opened	1991-11-17
Tyne and Wear Metro List of Tyne and Wear Metro stations

Airport is a terminus station on the Tyne and Wear Metro that serves Newcastle Airport. Green line services towards Sunderland via Newcastle city centre operate between the hours of 0500 and 2300 daily, with a journey time to Newcastle's Central Station of around 20 minutes and to Sunderland city centre in about 50 minutes.

Officially the station is known as Airport and not Newcastle Airport. Airport station consists of an island platform with a walkway connecting it directly to the airport terminal building. The station was not part of the original Metro network, however the station appeared on a preliminary map entitled "Possible extensions to the Metro system" in 1978 and again in a revised map in 1979.

The Airport extension was opened in 1991 and cost GB£12 million ^[1]. Before the Metro was finally extended to Airport passengers would have to alight at Bank Foot and take the M77 bus shuttle there. The bus service was withdrawn when the extension was opened.

As well as Airport, Callerton Parkway was built for a new 1 Zone shuttle service to Airport. Passengers can park their cars and ride on Metro to the Airport in one go. A single adult ticket is £1.30. A return ticket for 1 Zone is unavailable on Metro, instead Metro introduced the 1 Zone Hopper ticket, which permits unlimited travel in a single zone.