Flixbus UK

[Mrboo]

RE: Flixbus UK

(16/07/2020 08:50)knutstransport Wrote:  Not sure what you're trying to say. NX Manchester-London services currently depart at 07:30 and 09:30. The 07:30 isn't a fast service, so the Mon/Thurs 08:10 Flixbus service will arrive in London only 5 minutes after NX. If they've identified Mon/Thurs are days when people want to travel early I'd say that's a clever move as in addition to it being faster it means if someone needs to get a bus/train to central Manchester in order to pick up the coach they have more chance of making the first service e.g. if the first train arrives in to Victoria
or Piccadilly at 07:30 they would not be able to catch the NX service but could catch the Flixbus service.

I worked at VCS and at Leeds so know loading onfo. People like the coaches that leave about 7am so your in London for Midday then you get other wave that don't want to travel that early so a 9am hits traffic so your looking at 3pm in London and then you get the 6pm that gets in London in time for last London trains and tube and people like a set timetable same every day and a 7 sat service. I travel to London every day of week when I work in London. But I can't use them as they don't have the return at midnight. You only have to look at Megabus timetable to see when you need coaches as there gaps. Most who travel on coach don't get a bus or train first and most Manchester core routes start for 6am . But the big killer is BM Coaches on RR they are known as badly managed coaches. When I did RR they was the sh*t firm we used down south. Turners are fine as Megabus use.

And there little Promotion from them there only hope is due to Megabus and NX not fully running there networks they can get in a gap. But they did the school boy error of trying Portsmouth to London. Both First and Stagecoach failed to get off ground so they was mad to think a internet only firm who no one knows in UK market unless your from Europe.