Pricing
Pricing
Same could be said about Arriva marketing the E-Leather seats as a luxury mind. Used by Arriva to market their MAX services, by offering the customer 'MAXimum comfort', yet look at the statement here for E-Leather vs Fabric.
You know my feelings on pricing, and that I feel the entire system needs a massive reform (which I believe QCS will provide), but until then, we have what we have. It's got to be ran as a profitable business, and marketed in a way to try and attract many customers as possible. With what we do have, I'm pleased that we keep seeing new buses on the road, that are smart inside and out, and have things such as free WiFi and power sockets. Of course the alternative could be for the operators to take second hand cast offs from London, and we have nothing but battered and scruffy looking buses on the road. I know some of the ex-London Presidents that GNE have look like that internally, but they're spare vehicles. The alternatives were the Palatine 1s, but the step entrances exclude more customers than they include.
It may not fix the pricing issues, availability of services, and the structure of the network, but that's a longer term challenge. Yet a one we've already made massive advances with.
