Buy new this... get rid of Econospeed that... etc, etc.

Only a small number of people on this forum seem to understand how a business works. If some of you were left to it, you would bankrupt a company within weeks buying new buses.

You cant just buy new buses for the sake of it. Services need to be able to justify new vehicles, which means that they probably need to proove that expenditure from a central directorship will deliver a good profit on investment. If someone from Arriva approaches the central team and asks for new buses, they likely need to show how the new buses will grow revenue to justify the initial cost, otherwise it will be refused.

It is highly likely that he X21/X22 couldnt justify a full fleet of brand new vehicles, so only part were bought new, the rest would have been a smaller upgrade budget.

Also, the single biggest cost in a bus company is fuel. Any % saving, even 1% is likely to be a huge amount of money. This is why bus companies go for fuel efficiency and fit these devices. No matter how much we sulk, its the way forward.

Whilst people may think that Arriva (or any other operator for that matter) have no clue, we actually have no clue as to what is happening behind closed doors.