(21 Sep 2017, 10:36 pm)Ambassador wrote end of the day...if a service is making a profit it won't be withdrawn.
Odd observations are fine but there's obviously not a commercially viable level of demand for a service at 23.40.
Much like the 21 used to run 24/7 and GNE culled it to weekend night buses.
commercial profit driven businesses do not axe profitable routes. Simple.
But for many many years, the 308 has always had a bus after 11.30pm and GNE before 2008 would (I think) run the last one between Newcastle and Whitley Bay. From what I can see on the changes too looking at the outbound journey, the 10.40pm journey is being withdrawn on Sunday nights leaving an hourly service after 10pm. Now that is a sensible decision as not many people use the bus on a Sunday night even if it did make money. But Arriva withdrawing the 11.40pm service even on a Fri/Sat night is wrong.