(08 Mar 2014, 2:34 pm)Kuyoyo wrote Yes, passengers numbers are taken into account - BUT you can't order buses with no profit made.
Nobody said you could.
Looking at the bigger picture, 2-3 poor summers and the vehicles on the route start struggling due to age/mileage.
Those few passengers who are braving the elements of a typical British summer are then put off doing the trip, due to the vehicles becoming more and more unreliable and not turning up.
There has to be a point (and there will be) when ANE have to plump for new/er vehicles on the route - regardless of the weather.
You have to speculate to accumulate in some situations...