(16 Aug 2023, 7:10 am)Storx wrote First are a terrible company. They're known as Worst Group for a reason. 

They're pulling of places though everywhere. Plenty better companies around, Wellglade, Rotala (Diamond) and McGills to name three, whether they want to expand the size of Arriva, who knows.

To be honest First were given that nickname years ago but their operations have generally improved massively over the last 5 or so years.
There are still some where money is tight (SYorks/Potteries) but many are doing very well, York & Leeds are decent and Kernow has had huge amounts of cash thrown at it recently.

Wellglade I’d disagree with, they’ve really lost their way since Covid and really struggled with staff retention and outside Trent looks like an absolute shambles

To be quite honest I don’t see a group moving in and it’ll likely fall to independents to pick up a lot of what will be left when the inevitable closure happens in a few years.


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