(06 Apr 2021, 11:00 pm)Andreos1 wrote Really?

Two people board in Newcastle and get off in Whitby. What else is the bus doing apart from leech money on its trip to Scarborough, back to Whitby, back to Scarborough and then back to Newcastle via Whitby?
You're telling me that everything has been thought out before taking on commercial risk? I applaud them for doing something different and I applaud them for accepting the inevitable loss they're going to make.

There's absolutely no chance of them making any revenue from that day out at all. None whatsoever.
At least by letting people travel on it locally, you're reducing any loss. Slightly. Despite paying out nothing extra or incurring any additional costs?
But won't do so, incase it impacts on social distancing or people are forced to make their way back by other means. When (as Dan said so himself), the weather will impact on day-trippers and the numbers travelling.
Even though the weather won't impact on people travelling or commuting for work, seeing family, getting to uni after some time back home etc.

Regardless of the weather, a 6 hour round trip on the X11, plus an hour or so combined either side of it for travelling and connecting to/from the X11 for the sake of a couple of hours in Whitby or Scarborough is going to attract the very bravest of souls with the strongest of bladders.