National Express UK Expansion:

[iMarkeh]

RE: National Express UK Expansion:

(14/12/2021 11:55)Mrboo Wrote:  Going by when Midland Red South Sold Megabus Europe

They will remove their coaches from the network and I am sure they will move there coaches onto NX routes along with the drivers over getting less on Megabus.

Good news for 3rd party ops as now means they could do more Megabis routes.

But this is very bad for NX 3rd party ops

But good news for Flixbus as they may flip Megabus like they did in Europe by offering to buy it

Stagecoach are going to be a sub contractor still for Megabus so I can't see them removing everything from the network. That said, there will be a very interesting situation in South Wales and Bristol. Of course ComfortDelGro has NAT Group in the area who could do Mega work. South Glos & Cwmbran could then go onto NatEx work but then Edwards will lose a lot of work and they are one of the biggest NX contractors.



Certainly some interesting times ahead.