(05 Oct 2025, 4:34 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote Must be all the money they've saved on the endless repaints since the MG years.

I mean that'll be some of it, but I'd say it's more likely the butchered network combined with trying to pretend that the costs incurred by their compulsory redundancy scheme were financial performance related.

Of course, it raises the question of why profit should be rising, at the same time the level of public funding continues to rise. Sounds like a broken system to me.