(22 Mar 2021, 6:44 pm)Malarkey wrote Once again us Northerners get over looked as though we don't exist which is a shame, maybe Go North East could fill the gap on the "Northern Coaching" side of the business and set up some services to head Southbound to connect to the NatEx Network at Leeds or go the extra mile and have some competition heading down towards London.  

You've got Caetano Levante 2's 7131/32/35/36/37 doing nothing but with odd fleet numbers it seems like these maybe disposed of in the near future however you do the Caetano Levante 3's 7138-7149 which could be used on such services as they've not been used in months.

I've not used NatEx for years, so can't comment first hand, but I've noticed in bus stations over the past few years that Megabus coaches on similar routes to NatEx equivalents always seem to be carrying more folk. If I ever (pre-Covid) need to use a coach to get somewhere, I never even think of NatEx as the few times I did look their fares were considerably more expensive than Megabus. 

Is there an actual future for NatEx? I find most younger people either book a train or use Megabus, or have access to a car if going places as a group.