(14 Jun 2020, 3:46 pm)Malarkey wrote Just out of curiosity as i've not seen any of Martijn's videos what was the reason behind nine of the vehicles on order being "surrendered" to the Go-Ahead Group.

I had heard something a few months back that the deal with Wrightbus for the order was renegotiated following there takeover.

As we've seen for the Stagecoach UK order, the amount of capital being spent on new buses across the Go-Ahead Group this year will also need to be reduced. Although the government funding 'bridges the gap' on most of the operating costs of running a bus company, it certainly doesn't cover them all, and therefore bus operators are still making a loss during the current crisis.

Although operators in the Go-Ahead Group tend to run as individual businesses, the current crisis and the losses it has caused mean that the operators within the group need to work together now more so than ever before. Other operators in the group may have a greater need than Go North East for those buses, and, as Michael quoted in the original post, Phil Southall (the Managing Director of Oxford Bus Company) has quoted that they 'may get some diverted to [them] from the GNE order of 31'.

The remaining balance of 22 StreetDeck and 15 ADL Enviro400 being delivered to Go North East remains the same.