By Plane
Ballarat is located just over an hour's drive from Melbourne International Airport. From there you can hire a car or a camper van which links Melbourne to the region via one of Australia's major freeway / highways the M8 (or Western Hwy).
Alternatively train and bus services can get you to Ballarat with ease.
Melbourne Airport
Melbourne Airport is located approximately 25 kms from the Melbourne's CBD — less than 30 minutes by car. To view a map of Melbourne Airport's location, please visit the Melbourne & Region page.
Melbourne Airport is a major passenger and freight gateway into Australia. Over 17 million passengers passed through Melbourne Airport last year.
Renowned for its world class facilities, Melbourne Airport’s international and domestic terminals are conveniently located under one roof.
Consistently graded highly in passenger surveys, Melbourne Airport has also been ranked in the world’s top five airports.
General Enquiries / Reception:
- Phone: (61 3) 9297 1600
- Fax: (61 3) 9297 1886
Domestic and Regional Airlines
Qantas Airways Limited
- Melbourne Airport, VIC 3045
- Phone: (61 3) 9285 3000
- www.qantas.com.au
The Qantas Domestic terminal is located to the right of the International terminal.
It includes a separate group baggage check-in counter and through check to Qantas International flights. A separate ticket counter is provided to minimise waiting times. There is also a baggage services office for both international and domestic flights.
Virgin Blue
- South Terminal
- Melbourne Airport
- Phone: 13 67 89
- www.virginblue.com.au
Virgin Blue is housed in the South Terminal, which is located adjacent to the International Terminal.
Regional Express
- South Terminal
- Melbourne Airport
- Phone: 13 17 13
- www.regionalexpress.com.au
Regional Express (REX) is housed in the South Terminal with Virgin Blue, which is located adjacent to the International Terminal.
International Airlines
- Air China
- Air Mauritius
- Air Nauru
- Air New Zealand
- Air Pacific
- Air Paradise
- Alitalia (code-share)
- American Airlines (code-share)
- Australian Airlines
- British Airways
- Cathay Pacific
- China Eastern
- China Southern
- Emirates Airways
- Finnair (code-share)
- Freedom Air
- Garuda Indonesia
- Gulf Air (code-share)
- JAL (code-share)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airways (code-share)
- Lufthansa (code-share)
- Malaysia Airlines
- Pacific Blue
- Philippine Airlines
- Qantas
- Singapore Airlines
- Thai Airways
- United Airlines
- Vietnam Airlines
- Virgin Atlantic (code-share)