South of the border people know Megabus .
But if the only routes they have are to scotland (which is basically what it will be - the token Cardiff / Swansea services that remain are essentially pointless), then I'm not sure the megabus name will mean much. Especially given this massive reduction in routes is going to be the main thing people end up remembering (hell I won't be surprised if some people think megabus have given up nationwide so won't even bother thinking about the brand as a "living" one!).
Just market it all as Citylink. After all, Falcon is basically linking cities too. Citylink is a decent brand in Ireland too and so the focus could instead be on a strong UK&IRE Citylink brand rather than operating under 3 different brand names (Citylink, Megabus and Falcon).
I believe Stagecoach Cumbernauld use Volvo DD's on the M9/M11. I've seen one or two in London Victoria recently
What Swansea services?
Stagecoach 9700DDs are used on the M11 and M20 runs.
Some are the expected ones that continue to Scotland, but there do seem to be some that don't.
I think Panoramas still turn up on the M11 and M20 services.
Only very occasionally I believe.
Yes, I used that service from Manchester Airport.
The M9 journeys down to London seem to be staying too but the M84 will be no more
Stagecoach have probably been propping megabus up with finances for a while and Comfort delgro have deemed it not commercially viable
If they have, why would Comfortdelgro have wanted it? They'd have access to costs and income before paying. Loadings on most services seemed pretty good, so I'd doubt they were looking to increase loadings.
Wish it was like that every time!
Thandi, I think it is, have come to an agreement to use the Megabus branding under a franchiseor licence style agreement on routes they felt could be run viably With megabus as a ticket agent.
That's more likely to be successful if Megabus aren't telling everyone they're withdrawing all routes that don't serve Scotland.
That will have been poor wording. It means that people might not look up Megabus for local journeys in England on Anglo-Scottish routes, doubting that such journeys are still available to book.
But do people other than bus enthusiasts look up operator timetables or do they just do a Google search for, say Birmingham to London bus and see what comes up?
I'm a bus enthusiast and I still do that, journey plannere normally give the best options, and checking a timetable isn't helpful when you need to know prices and availability
I do like a timetable to see where I am going, frequency and number of stops.
I think it is mainly consolidating on using the Citylink booking engine rather than the old Megabus one.
I don't think they're killing the brand. They still operate quite a few US and Canadian services (though they're still on the old booking engine at the moment).
