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It has been reported in the press in Ireland that Aircoach has once again been heavily loss making in the previous 12 months and have lost a further €6.3m and this has forced First to act with the company receiving what is being called a '€25m equity injection'. These appear to be their two...

I know, I mean, it's awful isn't it, all those detailed train updates front and foremost and impossible to find the details you need, what you really need is a box at the top of the page where you can select your from station and a to station and make that front and centre so it's easier for the...

What are they replacing it with out of curiosity. Most operators who use Tyrrell see it as an essential tool in keeping both their staff and customers informed about operational information at times of disruption. They should also update this page as it doesn't seem to reflect the current...

But any of us who have been around the industry a while know there is something called a 'deliberate decline' in the services industry, where providers go out of their way to make a service bad, unreliable or hard to access or hide it away somewhere, so people stop using it and then they can use...

Are you really surprised? To all of us who have been around the railways for the last few decades, we've seen several operators get rid of the likes of JourneyCheck and whenever it has been replaced with something else, it has always been done so with something that is far inferior that...

Don't think it's appropriate to spell it out here.

As someone who doesn't take easyJet that often, I was surprised to see on a recent easyJet flight pilots coming and going out of the cockpit and seemingly freely queuing for the toilet along with passengers around the cockpit door with passengers freely able to freely roam without much of a...

The fact it is last built is not the reason it was selected though, it was a happy co-incidence. It was picked because of the two name plates it had as a lasting tribute to the two staff who died in service for FGW

Doesn't say a lot about the safety culture at the parent organisation does it. And moving a lot of the UK responsibility to people based in Spain is never going to be a good thing. Might be good news for First in Ireland though, as National Express Ireland is running rings round them where...

Toot is a really stupid name, I remember being in London last week and thinking what on earth does it stand for? I assumed it was something French related.

If InterRegio was dipping their toes in the water, the RegioEkpress services from 2010 that used newly refurbished carriages, 2+1 seating in first class, fully accessible carriages for wheelchair users, full air conditioning, plug sockets, full passenger information systems, the ability to book...

BusTimes.org is showing the 717, 727 and 777 being deregistered from January. They just withdrawing it as a registered route or they being scrapped?

Was at the time a bizarre move that effectively saw him take Marc R job. Marc was pretty much sidelined after that. Sad to see a good busman leave the business.

PKP can bring whatever new trains it wants into the system, it's still not going to make up for the fact they are not that customer focused and never have been but are only too happy to chase out operators who are. When Przewozy Regionalne was spun out of PKP and privatised, all of the best...

The problem is short term thinking might give such results in the short term but longer term it might not be so rosy.

There's a very senior figure in Stagecoach Bus that knows the operation well too and has previously ran the First operation there!

No surprise what has happened here. The management that turned the operation around somewhat were replaced by others who saw a decline in the business under their watch. Entirely predictable and those who were moved aside predicted this

I use to be a regular passenger on the former 250 (now 717) route from Ipswich that was run by National Express every couple of hours, but since Covid they were very slow to increase frequency. For a long time it was about 3 times a day and even now it is only 8 times a day, down from what was...

I also note that the warnings / important info has slipped much further down the homepage as well.

Who was running it out of interest? Is it still going through Transport UK Rail Support?