Megabus.com expands low cost inter city travel with £1 fares from Edinburgh to London

30 March 2006

• Fife passengers to benefit from new Ferrytoll Park and Ride link
  
• Expansion includes new links from Cwmbran to Bristol and London
  
• Extra Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Southampton trips to London

megabus.com, the UK’s leading low-cost inter-city bus service, has launched £1 travel between Edinburgh and London as part of a further expansion of the concept across the UK.

Transport giant Stagecoach is expanding its megabus.com operation to offer a new Edinburgh-Newcastle-Sheffield-London service.

Two return services a day will run from Edinburgh’s St Andrew’s Square Bus Station. Passengers in Fife will also be able to link into the Edinburgh-Newcastle-Sheffield-London service from the successful Ferrytoll Park and Ride facility near Inverkeithing.

A new link from Cwmbran to Bristol and London service is also being launched, operating twice per day in each direction.

Meanwhile, megabus.com is making further improvements on a number of existing routes, including:

• Bournemouth - London will increase from 2 to 3 return journeys per day
  
• Portsmouth - London will increase from 1 to 3 return trips each day
  
• Southampton - London will increase from 2 to 3 return journeys a day

Bookings for all the new and improved services are being accepted now at www.megabus.com.

The new routes bring the total number of cities in the megabus.com network to more than 40.

Brian Souter, Chief Executive of Stagecoach Group, said: “megabus.com has opened up inter-city travel to a whole new market of people with super low fares and we are delighted the innovative service is continuing to expand its reach across the UK.

“From young people, and former car and train users, to families and senior citizens, megabus.com has built a first-class reputation for taking customers in comfort direct to their destination for unbeatable value.”

The new services will use a mix of coach and double-decker vehicles with new comfortable seats and toilets.

Around 2 million people a year already travel with megabus.com, which is based on the same concept as the low-cost airlines. Seats on the no-frills ticketless service are yield managed with passengers enjoying lower fares the earlier they book. Seats start from £1 and all reservations are subject to a 50p booking fee.

Last year, Stagecoach launched a budget rail service, megatrain.com, following the huge success of megabus.com. The megatrain.com concept is being piloted at South West Trains, the UK’s biggest rail franchise, on some off-peak services on the Portsmouth-London and Southampton-London routes.

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