LCY also a short walk from Silvertown.
Not now, construction of the DLR link (of all things) actually blocks pedestrian access to Silvertown BR from LCY. Lots of buses though.
And I just can't help pointing out that, in a close parallel to HLX, both Ryanair's destinations in the UK served from Hahn (STN and PIK) have rail connections whereas Hahn itself doesn't !
But then again these did exist before FR, whereas BVA, HHN, LBC, CRL came into existence by the grace of MOL.
Presumably the Ryanairport buses are run by local private companies - but do they pay Ryanair for the privilege of picking up their passengers?
Traditionally, local operators were approached by FR, with "Ryanair"-branded coaches promoting FR's fares on motorways all over Europe.
That's how things started at HHN, BVA, and CRL, with coaches sometimes calling at UK/Irish expat hangouts rather than traditional bus/coach stations - the Brussels end of the CRL link used be the Wild Geese pub, and has now been moved to Gare du Midi train station. Don't think these actually paid FR, but things may have changed over the years.
The Girona buslink is run by a local company w/o Ryanair branded coaches, and the terravision deal may also be different, as it does serve more established airports - CIA and BGY had a life before FR, if a less exiting (?) one.
As an aside, German airports if publicly owned will usually tell you they can't set up coachlinks - to protect the national railway, long-distance domestic coachlinks marketed to the general public are apparently illegal in Germany, with the exception of some grandfathered lines to/from Berlin, whose licences date back to when the GDR was still around. So it's a private operator of, say, a shopping mall, or a theme park, or an airline, who will have to set up the coach, and market it as being a feeder to its services, and only that. Enter Ryanair... Yes, I am saying that travelling LUX-HHN-FRA using the HHN coachlinks is technically illegal, even if (or should I say because) it's cheaper and faster than the train. Use LG instead
Airports themselves will of course organise local buses. But anyone who's ever been to HHN knows that that means some market town in the middle of nowhere (if boasting a train station).