(17 Apr 2014, 10:37 pm)marxistafozzski wrote Would you do it where you got to book in advance or would you go for a service where you just turn up and go, pay the driver like you would on a service...Would you do a service like the Oxford to London Services

Probably both like NX do. I always thought Megabus miss a trick with that, but I suppose it saves a lot of behind the scenes cost.
I've always thought there is a market for a regularly timetabled, competitively priced coach network across the North in a similar style to how Citylink is run in Scotland.