(11 Aug 2016, 6:49 pm)Andreos1 wrote Even the most savvy financial director will have financed that in to any contract/bid...
Forecasts will have been planned both on income and expenditure, in addition to passenger numbers way back when they went for the contract - regardless of any new rolling stock.
New rolling stock, will (or should have), been factored in to that bid. It hasn't just sneaked up on them.
The fact they're losing money hand over fist (at a figure of about £1m per month that I heard!) and it being announced after the big unveiling of the new Azumas seems too much of a coincidence to me Andreos?
Call me cynical like...