$1.50 LeeTran Route 240 is built around worker shifts
LeeTran Route 240 is a seasonal commuter-style bus that touches Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW) but mainly serves employees in the industrial and logistics zones around the Main terminal, not beach hotels. Fares run about $1.50–$2.00 per ride, putting it in a different league from $30–$60 rideshares, but the route and timing match shift changes more than midday arrivals.
Headways sit around 15 minutes at peak (.25 hours), but only during the limited seasonal schedule that LeeTran publishes on its RSW Airport Service PDF, and service can thin out sharply outside those windows. Typical trip time from the airport area to more built-up parts of Fort Myers runs over 60 minutes, because 240 threads through employment clusters instead of running as a straight airport–downtown express.
Route 240 is mentioned in LeeTran planning documents as one of several routes touching RSW, but it rarely appears in visitor-facing materials or hotel instructions, and it does not show up in most 2020s-era public transit tips on TripAdvisor for getting from RSW to Fort Myers Beach or Sanibel. That absence in tourist threads is a strong hint: this line is aimed at workers, not at someone rolling two big bags to a resort.
Regulars working around RSW often mix Route 240 with carpooling or a single rideshare leg, using the bus for the long, cheap part of the commute and a car for the last few miles or for very early/late shifts. Forum posts from local employees make it clear that rotating hospitality and aviation schedules regularly fall outside the bus timetable, so they treat 240 as one tool in a patchwork instead of a standalone solution.
Watch out for: Route 240’s seasonal nature and shift-focused pattern mean you can’t assume it runs all day, and the >60-minute ride plus transfer time can easily eat up 90 minutes or more compared to a 20–30 minute drive. If you still want to use it, pull the latest RSW Airport Service PDF from LeeTran’s site, check that your flight time lines up with the worker peaks shown there, and build at least a 30-minute buffer into your plans in case your inbound flight runs late.
Practical tip: treat LeeTran Route 240 as a low-cost option for commuting to jobs near RSW or industrial parks within Lee County; for hotel or beach runs from the Main terminal, plan on pairing it with at least one other mode or skip it entirely and budget for rideshare.