(18 May 2022, 9:37 pm)Dan wrote Nobody can deny this is a kick in the teeth for customers and it is poor, but is it better that there are short-notice cancellations the day before/on the day, or planned frequency reductions in advance? Those are the two options here, because covering every single journey clearly isn’t an option right now.

Perhaps I am being cynical but if drivers are scheduled to work and they are avid football fans, it could well result in a large number of failures on the day. Maybe this is planning to fail or perhaps it’s being realistic and knowing that this couldn’t be absorbed on the day on a Saturday service?

I wonder if they would have had the same backlash, or less, if they chose to ran a Saturday service with cancellations as normal? Presumably this enhanced Sunday service will result in every journey being operated with no cancellations.

Would there be staffing levels above a normal Sunday service in place to account for any disruption? Sunday services are obviously timed etc. for Sunday traffic and patronage and seem to go very bad very quickly when faced with more than that.

Taking the potential disruption into account, there's the possibility of dropping below even a Sunday service level (i.e not every journey being operated, and there being cancellations) if there isn't staffing resource available to address late running without having to regulate services to comply with driving time regulations etc.