(09 Aug 2015, 10:03 am)DaveyBowyer wrote Was more of a generic question that I was asking TBH, just wanted to see what peoples thoughts were. Personally, I don't think that they would for the following reasons:
- Blyth have a very high vehicle utilisation.
- MAX at least gives Blyth some flexibility on allocations now with the X7, X8 and X9 becoming MAX whereas with Sapphire, passengers on the X10 / X11 would see a worse and less consistent service owing to regulation (Sapphires on the 308 and B5s on the X10 / X11).
What other routes do you think that could get a Sapphire upgrade then? If that's the case, I don't think any Northumbria routes will get one for a while then.
I'm not sure there are many options left. Got to be careful not to overload the region with them. They're already close to doing this in Durham in my opinion... I would like to see some expansion into new areas next, maybe with bolt ons to existing routes.