Bus Services Bill
Bus Services Bill
(03 Oct 2018, 2:18 pm)Andreos1 It is obviously the way their strategic planning is now working.
Same overheads (wages and vehicle costs aren't changing too much, if at all), but they feel it will improve margins.
We've seen it up here on key corridors.
Whilst it may lead to numbers increasing on those corridors, there is the potential to see the captive audience decreasing.
I've mentioned the 'Fencehouses situation' many times in the past, particularly in the QCS thread. So won't go there again in too much detail.
Needless to say, those passengers on the key corridor benefited from the 2006 changes.
Those in the outlying areas haven't. I would argue annecdotaly, the services in the outlying areas have suffered with fewer bums on seats too.
The problem with operators operating this way and focusing on those routes, in my opinion will see markets fall in the ignored areas and markets eventually become stagnant in the areas seeing attention.
Where do the operators go then? What do they do to grow the ignored market, maintain the focused markets and increase margins?
It appears they go cap in hand to the Government, asking them to come up with a strategy to fix the legacy of their previous operational decisions.
Bizarre.
(03 Oct 2018, 2:18 pm)Andreos1 It is obviously the way their strategic planning is now working.
Same overheads (wages and vehicle costs aren't changing too much, if at all), but they feel it will improve margins.
We've seen it up here on key corridors.
Whilst it may lead to numbers increasing on those corridors, there is the potential to see the captive audience decreasing.
I've mentioned the 'Fencehouses situation' many times in the past, particularly in the QCS thread. So won't go there again in too much detail.
Needless to say, those passengers on the key corridor benefited from the 2006 changes.
Those in the outlying areas haven't. I would argue annecdotaly, the services in the outlying areas have suffered with fewer bums on seats too.
The problem with operators operating this way and focusing on those routes, in my opinion will see markets fall in the ignored areas and markets eventually become stagnant in the areas seeing attention.
Where do the operators go then? What do they do to grow the ignored market, maintain the focused markets and increase margins?
It appears they go cap in hand to the Government, asking them to come up with a strategy to fix the legacy of their previous operational decisions.
Bizarre.