(04 Jan 2019, 9:51 pm)NewcastleOne wrote 57/A does not meet Max Spec as there isn’t one as its a discontinued brand, 57/A does not a Pulsar size bus anyway 
X9&2 don’t need 2 spare buses each remember a route to Spare Bus ratio is 8:1 (usually)
The Streetairs are completely useless so no
Blyth does not need the bus Fleet but do agree that the Darts and Cadets need to leave as they are tried but yet again it only take an Arriva Bus a few years for that to happen.
308 just had its buses refurbished so it does not need any new buses at this moment.
Whitby don’t need extra spare buses as the ALX400s (which you Replace) are covers for X93 that would again be a waste of resources especially as Arriva are not huge investors.

I know thats what I was trying to change. Arriva should learn from a company with good investment like lothian (who have a really modern fleet) or more locally gne (who like lothian have a really modern fleet)
Lothian and gne are bith good companies and buy new buses when the previous buses are getting or want to put different buses on a different route and not spending 3 months with buses with the wrong branding for the wrong route like on the X15 with 7554/6 when 7555 is fully de branded and 7553 only has rear branding. An example of lothian doing the sensible option and debranding them and rebranding them right a way is when the 49 got deckers and the 'queen of scots' eclipses went on another route they got debranded right a way ready for use on other routes. Gne done the same when the 09 versas were going to cls they repainted them then entered them in srvice. That us just one example the list goes on and on. Arriva need investment.