Unlikely.Avanti is the name of the new trains, had confirmation from Virgin Staff yesterday, think someone was having a play around to trip people up
- Staff rumours are almost never true.
- If Avanti was new name for the Pendolinos, why would FirstGroup register a domain for it and add 'West Coast' at the end?
- Pendolino already has brand value, so why get rid of it?
- If Avanti was the new name for the Pendolinos, they would have also made one for the Voyagers... which hasn't happened.