Another operator running a nigh on 100% of planned service this week despite us being at the worst point in the pandemic forced to cull services from next week when in all likelihood by the following week restrictions will be removed and WFH guidance dialled back or pulled doesn't seem the right response to me. This will discourage passengers especially if overcrowding.
Avanti isn't primarily a commuter TOC, and while commuting may slowly return to some extent, business travel certainly won't any time soon, and that's Avanti's weekday bread and butter (Friday evenings and weekends mostly leisure).
My employer has never gone as far as permitting business travel again, it was (briefly, for about 3 weeks) commuting to your base location only, and only if you were happy doing so, any employee had a right to say no.
This of course would explain why some services weren't open for booking, as referenced in another thread I can't quite find.
I assume it will be:
1 TPH to Manchester
1 TPH to Birmingham
1 TPH to Glasgow
1 TPH to Liverpool
With a few additional trains to Edinburgh / Holyhead / Blackpool / Shrewsbury
You don't need to assume, it's published on the link above, but yes it's roughly that. Though the Scotland via Birmingham is running too as the 1tph West Mids. Only to Edinburgh though, the ones that would go to Glasgow are diverted to Blackpool.
