(14 Dec 2024, 7:30 am)DeltaMan wrote Heaven forbid the operators and mayor working together.
Photos or it didn't happen.
(14 Dec 2024, 11:21 am)Adrian wrote It's hardly working together, is it? It's a fare cap, i.e. the maximum you'll pay, not a flat fare.
This smacks of blatant profiteering. Nothing else.
As I've said repeatedly, there's absolutely nothing stopping the operators doing something themselves with the fares.
If easyjet, Ryanair et al can make money by charging low fares, I don't know why the bus industry can't.
The idea that I'd want to travel to Gdansk, a random airfield in northern Italy or sit on a cramped aircraft to an obscure town in Slovenia is beyond comprehension.
But the 99p fares or whatever they're offering drives demand and they make money.
And I (and many others) decide to travel to those places.
Quite why the bus industry needs to rely on a hand out and then still struggle shows how behind the times they really are.