Airport MBTA Station – Blue Line

Considering that this is the last interaction that many folks will have with the City of Boston, you’d think that they’d do a better job of running the operation. This evening, I got off the train and walked up to catch a bus to the terminal. I was there for a solid TWENTY MINUTES while watching the number of minutes on the «next bus arriving» sign go from 5 to 4 to 3 to 2 to 5 to 4 to 3 to 2 to 5 to 4 to 3 to 2. WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL IS GOING ON HERE?
Meanwhile, plenty of «DROP OFF ONLY» buses showed up and let people out but none arrived to let people on.
Enough of this nonsense, I finally went up to one of those «drop off only» and asked the driver what was going on. «Shift change,» he said.
Screw you, Boston. This is seriously f’ed up.
On the plus side, the signage was good and it was easy to find my way from the platform to the spot to wait for buses.

Super convenient! I loved that I can jump off the t and hop onto the shuttle to the airport. There is always shuttles waiting when the subway rolls in. So cost efficient and way cheaper than a taxi from downtown.

This is more of an overview of the MBTA which starts off at the airport. I was able to use all of the lines except the blue while I visited. Whenever I travel to the NE, I love taking public transportation. It seems crazy, but it’s actually nice not to have to drive and worry about parking. You do that way too much in Texas.
Boston’s system is by no means perfect but I did enjoy it once I got the hang of it. I had to figure out that most of the tourist attractions along the green line were before it split off so you could jump on any. The redline makes visiting Harvard very easy, and the silver line, which is just a bus on a dedicated tunnel, brings you back and forth to the airport along with on this occasion our hotel on the waterfront. The city itself was not huge so each time it’s only a few stops. The switch over is timed pretty well so we only had to wait 5 – 10 minutes at most and usually less than 3 between transfers.

I have always taken trains when I travel because it gets me to where I need to go at a cheaper cost. This station amazed me because it is right off Boston Logan Intl and is accessible via bus and some local airport hotels. Clean and efficient too!

Complete joke at rush hour. Overcrowded busses, bus drivers taking off before people can get off at their terminals, at the mercy of tunnel traffic. If you are strapped for cash and can’t afford a cab budget at least 2 hours to get here in rush hour. Boston officials should be ashamed. Why on the world would they not put luggage racks on an airport shuttle? Don’t they have enough data to predict capacity needs? Good luck climbing over a sea of bags to get out the door before the bus driver ignores your pleas to keep the door open.

I don’t usually review mbta stations, but I am going to make an exception, because I was recently so pleasantly surprised. I live on the orange line and usually when going to Logan I take orange to red and then silver to my terminal. I always knew that there was a way to get to Logan from the blue line, but people talk so much smack about the poor blue line that I just believed it.
Don’t believe what you hear! Taking the orange to blue to Airport station and then the free shuttle over to Logan was a much smoother trip! You don’t have to mess with riding the silver line on the highway. That in itself is worth it. But Airport Station seemed very clean and well laid out. I had no trouble at all figuring out where the terminal shuttle buses were, or which one to take.
All hail the blue line (at least as far as this stop)!

Awesome. Easy to navigate, great prices free shuttle from airport terminal to Blue Line (free Silver Line access, have to pay if choosing the Blue Line), clean and decent hours. Thanks to this awesome system, we were able to use the Airport as our main transit point this worked out quite well.

This makes airport travel easy & cheap. Being a doc student, I’m broke & rolled through town for school related stuff (which of course the school only covers up to a certain point). I digress. You get a free bus to the airport from this stop & they have a bunch of monitors to tell you which bus to get on (different buses for different terminals/​airlines). If you get confused, do fret. The bus drivers are super nice and won’t steer you wrong. So just ask if it’s the right bus. If you want to save some money on your trips in and out of Boston, use the T and the free blue bus line!

Are you kidding me. FREE and NEW buses straight from the airport to the ridiculously extensive Boston T transit subway system???
Driving through the airport like a pornstar, buses drop at the curb and cars get a separate load and unload zone across the street. Shows how transit focused the HUB really is. Good job Beantown.
Watch what bus you get on from the station to BOS, some go to terminals A and B while others go to C and E. Ask your driver.
Seriously, such nice buses!

With easy access between the airport and Government Center station, MBTA has me yearning for a similar transit line in Cincinnati. It’s incredibly easy to use, particularly for the solo-​traveler arriving in Boston.
Exit airport terminal — wait for FREE shuttle bus to Airport MBTA Station — board Blue Line subway to Government Center — arrive Downtown within 10 minutes.
The station itself is very clean with a welcoming artistic design. It compliments the airport terminal well. With simple connections to the center hub of MBTA subway lines, anyone can navigate the city with ease.

Clean, Spacious and accessible!
Airport MBTA Station really makes a good impressive for us «tourist» of how transit friendly Boston is!
Shuttle bus takes me from my Terminal to the Station. and getting the 7 day unlimited pass ($ 15) is so simple and straightforward.
No stairs at all to navigate. great if you have a suitcase.
A great start for my Weekend in Boston!

Convenient shuttle picks you up from the airport and takes you here to get to other parts of the city. It was clean and felt safe at night.

Easy in and out from the shuttle to the station. There was an MBTA employee helping people with passes, etc. Maps and information about the T schedules and stops were clear and in the open. Cost was $ 15 for a 7 day unlimited pass.

I thoroughly enjoyed stopping at this station on my way back to the airport because I definitely felt that it saved me more money than to take the taxi. I was pleasantly surprised that the Blue line was clean, fast, smooth and with a $ 15, 7-​day Charlie ticket card, I definitely got my money’s worth (versus Taxi at $ 33 on the way from airport to downtown which was only a mere 3 miles!)
I loved that they have a complimentary shuttle that goes to the terminals and from downtown Government Center to airport took only 20 minutes, it would have taken far longer in rush hour with a taxi. The shuttle was fast, service was friendly and got me where I needed to be. Thanks MBTA!

My family and I took the T from airport to Fenway Park. At the beginning of our journey we purchased a Charlie Card for $ 5 — the Charlie Card allows you to ride on the T for $ 1.70 per ride. After the Red Sox game was over we were going back to our hotel and entered at the Kenmore Station where we were told that our Charlie Card only had $ 1.60 left on it. Since we had only ridden once to get to the game there should have been $ 3.30 left on the card. So we were told to throw $ 2 into a bucket and allowed through the gate. When we got to the Airport station we told the agent what happened and he said there was nothing he could do. The next day we were going into Boston and approached a new agent, Hank Johnson. I have to say, Hank was the best, he went out of his way to take care of my sister and my problem where the Kenmore station deleated the $ 1.70, but didn’t let us through the gate. So often people voice their complaints, but in this case I want to give an «atta boy» to Hank! Not only was Hank polite and friendly, but he went the extra mile in his quest to give the utmost customer service. Again, Thanks Hank!

It’s on the blue line. The blue line is the most unfortunate line of all the MBTA lines. The only reason that more people hate the green line than the blue line is because not many people ever take the blue line consistently enough to realize how truly miserable it is.
The king of terrible stations on the blue line is Maverick — I challenge anyone outside of an 18 year old kid to feel like he isn’t going to get mugged. The queen, therefore, is the Airport T station, dressed up and dolled out in new shiny digs but full of hateful spite. I lived a few blocks from this station for six months and learned its mysterious ways.
The positive:
1) Through the park, as you come up on the station, you can see the inbound trains approaching. If you feel like running, you can sometimes catch the train.
2) It’s a very pretty station
3) The brand new parks on either side of the station are some of the best maintained parks in all of Boston and you can have a great time there.
4) You can learn about Amelia Earhart on the walls.
5) There are trains here that can take you away from Airport Station.
The negative:
1) You’re on the blue line
2) You live near the airport in a terrible neighborhood
3) This place is PACKED with tourists — just imagine it, everyone that’s taking the T from the airport is either on this or the silver line. The trains fill up so quickly here due to the whole families getting off planes and all their bags
4) You have to cross some crazy-​ass bridge to get to the non-​airport side of the neighborhood if you just got off an outbound train here.
5) You’re on the blue line
I guess as I wrote this review I realized more that the Airport station itself isn’t terrible, it’s just the fact that you’re on the blue line and in East Boston that’s so terrible. Airport station is an overall well designed place that the MBTA actually should have spent money on and did successfully.