(24 Oct 2020, 11:26 pm)Storx wrote It's not a 'claim' that Arriva North East make more profit than GNE it's a fact.You need to pay for the investments from your profits thou.
It's the only fact in the whole thing you've wrote there, the rest of it is assumptions at best. Also most of the buses in Northumbria which operate into Newcastle are Euro 6 already. Investments doesn't affect profits so that's irrelevant, if anything that should increase profits not vice versa since patronage should go up.
If your going to make claims such as, 'Arriva don't have the capacity going forward,' then you need to back it up with evidence which I must've missed somewhere. Cancelling an order of 7 buses isn't that. You don't tend to spend money during a pandemic when your profits are down when you don't need too it's just suicidal.
So, if you are not spending money and investing in new vehicles, then your profits will be higher as you have not got to pay for them?