Bus Companies are perfectly at liberty to register/not register what they want on a commercial basis - but it has to be a viable proposition. There has never been a direct Swansea - Cardiff Airport service apart from one attempt in the mid 1980s which lasted less than a year. If there was money to be made, surely someone would have made a go of it by now. I notice it's always the 'big operators' that are expected to play along with these 'fantasy bus routes' and not the smaller independents.
Ian On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Carl Berry <[email protected]>wrote: > The Greyhound seves Bristol airport because that's where First believe > people want to go. If the runs dont make money, then First will scrap them! > The advantage is that First can charge a premium fare to serve the airport. > > However making it serve Cardiff airport on the way between Cardiff and > Swansea will just annoy all of it's current users and require more resource > (vehicles/staff) because of the additional running time. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Baz <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Cc:* Carl Berry <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, 16 January 2014, 9:47 > > *Subject:* Re: Cardiff airport train to be reviewed! > > > People could ask why does the Greyhound serve Bristol Airport,& NOT > Cardiff Airport,now that's a plan,scrap the Bristol runs,as they delay the > Service to much,just make it Swansea-Cardiff Airport-Cardiff, > > > Regards > C B N > > > On Friday, 10 January 2014 14:55:04 UTC, Carl Berry wrote: > > News on the BBC that the express bus to the airport is to be reviewed. > > No suprise there, however some of the comments in the article appear a bit > odd however with a conservative minister describing it as a "publicly > funded ghost train" which suggests he doesn’t understand what buses are, a > local resident saying that it's invariably empty except for the driver so, > I assume, there’s other buses services in the vale which don’t even > carry a driver and a 'transport expert' quoted as saying that it's > needed to convince airlines that there would be passengers available which > suggests that airlines run flights on spec and wait for bus passengers to > turn up for them! > He also suggests it’s not possible to only cater for the busy flights as > the assets would only sit around not being used otherwise which is somewhat > of a simplification and, taken to an extreme, suggests that the WAG will > soon be demanding that every bus service (including schools) runs 24 hours > a day to make sure the assets are deployed properly! > > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk- wales-south-east-wales- > 25682391<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-25682391> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Welsh Bus Photographs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/welsh-bus-photographs. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Welsh Bus Photographs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/welsh-bus-photographs. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Welsh Bus Photographs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/welsh-bus-photographs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
