(04 May 2020, 8:48 pm)Dan wrote Under normal circumstances I wouldn't have thought so (the SmartZone is a joint ticket between Arriva, Go North East and Stagecoach). It may be that when the operators enter discussions with Nexus regarding ticket acceptance that SmartZone tickets are also accepted however.
For the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic however, Nexus have agreed to accept any tickets on their secured services (reflecting the arrangement NEbus partners have made to do the same on their own services).
Wonder how many people who use the 39 will be happy with that arragement though, if they can't use their smartzone pass.
Might put people on to other services making the contract side of the 39 worthless even more than now.