(14 Nov 2022, 9:41 pm)Adrian wrote "Our previous fare increase in the Northumberland, Tyne & Wear and County Durham areas was in January 2022 and was a conservative increase, much lower than the growing CPI rate at the time, with the expectation that Arriva could minimise the level of cost increase passing on to our customers. Regretfully, since then, costs such as fuel and utilities have continued to increase and as a result the difficult decision has been taken to undertake this additional fare revision."

So from January 2022's fares to November 2022's new fares:

Appreciate you doing the work to draw those comparisons.

Interesting to see that some routes/areas don't see n increase. Presumably they won't be paying increased prices for fuel or staff wages.