(19 Jun 2014, 12:27 pm)Drifter60 wrote Well they must have originally decided not to run the evening buses without financial support, so nexus tendered it but now they clearly want the services to have GNE evening service, like now they've won the 29/38. Is annoying that nexus have been paying for it though but now GNE can suddenly afford it!
It comes back to maintaining profit margins. If the service was making a loss they wouldn't operate it commercially, and would just let Nexus get on with it. But because they have the usage statistics from operating it themselves, they'll know exactly how much it makes. It may not be in line with the group's financial targets, but perhaps does a bit more than break even. It doesn't exactly strengthen their arguments against QCS...