(26 Oct 2024, 9:21 am)Andreos1 wrote It's all this patter with fleet standardisation though isn't it?
On one hand you've got a potential ready supply of parts and fitters who are type trained by virtue of everything being the same.
The downside, is that you've got a fleet which isn't set up to meet the network requirements.
It's like a taxi company having a fleet of Skoda vehicles. Common parts, easy for the mechanics to switch between one and the other etc.
The Octavias will be great for distance stuff to the airport, but sticking a Fabia out on the same run isn't going to do it much good.
Exactly agreed. Personally I don't understand why the Streetdeck's were ever ordered up here. Like you said there, surely it's better to have a fleet of Octavias, if a fair chunk of the fleet actually needs them, rather than having a fleet of Fabia's running around doing Octavia work. Especially when in the future they need to displace the things to something else which pretty much all need Octavias as stuff like the X5/X15/47 and so on where displacements arguably should go would struggle with them.
Mind that said the fleet standardisation is a mystery with GoNE. There can't be an operator with more types of deckers on the road that they have right now; B5TL, B7TL, B9TL, Cummins 6.7L, Daimler 5L, Daimler 7L, Scania N230UD, Scania N270UD all in numerous different bodies because why the hell not and that's only the Deckers because the singles is just as bad.