Phoenix Sky Train

Sky Train is pretty good when it is working (75% of the time) - the signage is not good if you have to transfer. The other 25% of the time it is a disaster

The Sky Train is great, Sky Harbor is not a large airport anyway, so this allows you to park at the economy parking lot. I park at the east side parking lot about ten to fifteen times a year. Never had a problem with it, gets you to the terminal very quickly. They also have shuttles within the parking lot to take you to the tram. Very convenient! It is a little walk to get there from the baggage claim area, but no big deal.

The Sky Train really works just fine, but our light rail just doesn’t get me anywhere I’m trying to go. It also makes you wait just a little past your natural sensitivity between trains, that seems to be fairly typical though across the country (caugh, Oakland). I used Sky Train this time as I figured out that you can hop on the free train, then on the other end of the line, you just jump in an über to get home. This is a great way to get home from the airport, without risking getting an über driver a $ 300 ticket by having them pick you up at the airport. So, for everyone out there thinking about taking a taxi from the airport, go with this method instead. It will probably cut your bill to get home in half, though, no guarantee.*

Free, clean, fast, frequent and did I mention free?
My wife and I took this to get to the light rail because we had some down time between flights out of PHX. It isn’t a bad option even if you want to just take a break from the airport and have 45 minutes to kill.
Conveniently located off of terminal 4, it’s a direct 3 – 5 minute shot to the light rail that can then take you directly to downtown Phoenix or Tempe. Both are good options.

Phoenix has come a long way. This is a cool addition to the valley’s developing metropolitan transportation network. Worth checking out, even if just to visit some of the cool restaurants at the airport.

What isn’t to love about the sky train?! It’s free, runs very consistently, and saves me the headache of having to park or Über to the airport when I travel and take the light rail.
It really is the fastest way (for me) to get in and out of the airport quickly — I can’t wait for the expansion to open (that is, if I’m ever not traveling out of terminal 4).
The only grief I have — that’s not even worth deducting a star for because it’s consistently my fault — is that I’m never able to use the baggage check available at the stop for the train. They have a 2 hour cutoff, and I’m consistently never early. Sigh…

Awesome ride for young kids. Who needs the Disney monorail when you have the Sky Train? We once visited the airport just to ride it. No problem convincing the grand kids to meet grandma at the airport anymore.
At a cost of well over a billion dollars, you have to wonder if there wasn’t a more cost effective way to connect the three terminals and light rail. Put aside those thoughts. Enjoy the sparkly floors.

I really dig the Phx Sky Train. It’s like a roller coaster for people who are afraid of the real things (I’m not). The ride is very smooth, and completely automated, so you feel like you’ve landed in an episode of the Jetsons. Yeah, totally cool.

Got to save my 85 year old father the stress of driving up to terminal 4 at Sky Harbor. As we drove South on 44^th Street right before us lay the Sky Train terminal without another car in sight. The terminal is gorgeous! The train zipped me to the terminal reminiscent of a speedy Disneyland experience.
Dad was headed back home instead of the cardiac unit at the local hospital. Sky Train is great!

This is not a train– it’s a roller coaster! Seriously– is this thing safe? I don’t see how we didn’t fly off the rails last night it was going so damn fast, but I appreciated the speed cause I was tired and ready to go the hell home after my 5 hour flight from the east coast. It’s like the Disney Monorail but it feels like it carries a higher personal injury factor.
With the rise in popularity of GPS based ride-​share apps like Über & Lyft, and the traditional cab companies trying hard to prevent pick ups and drop offs at the terminals, the Sky Train is the place to be picked up.
Signage in & out of the Sky Train station could be more obvious and perhaps even lighted at night, and for a weekday evening when the airport terminals and baggage claim were packed, there was no one on the Sky Train taking it out to the Light Rail station. So it has that not busy or crowded thing going for it.

Well, I was lucky enough to ride on this the 2^nd day it was up and running.
It is a good concept and it is free so you have nothing to complain about.
However for now it only goes to Terminal 4. You have to get off the train. Go down to level 2, take a bus over to Terminal 3 and 2. They are working on building more, so it will do that eventually.
It is quick and easy. One of the bad things is the homeless riders have no discovered it. They will get on it at 44^th street and ride it over to the airport for a while and hang out, then ride it back and forth.
So in the summer it can be probably a lot of fun for them.
Just watch your bags and enjoy the ride.

Watch out here predatory ticket and towing!
My spouse parked at the cell phone lot at the sky tram on Easter Sunday. He walked up to the tram exit to meet me and help with my bags, in just the few minutes our truck was ticketed and going on the tow truck. Yes the sign said «Do not leave your car unattended» however, there were only two other cars in the whole lot and he just went up to the tram exit not more than two minutes’ walk from the parking or standing lot. Really Sky Harbor is this the intention of the sky tram? If you don’t want us to use it then fine we will go back to picking up passengers at the airport. Never again will I use the sky tram.