Easybus - what next ?

[Beach Hut]

Fat he maybe but considerably richer than any of us

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Aye, to be sure. But only on account of his airline. Stella El-Lard-Bucket is more of a one trick pony than E Block Ernie

 

[Yorkie]

Fat he maybe but considerably richer than any of us

And his planes do provide a good service. We have friends in Athens that we have visited several times in the last 4 years. By booking well in advance and choosing the times carefully we have flown to Athens for something varying between £90 and £135 return.
Each flight has taken off and landed exactly on time and we've had no complaints about their service.

 

[Beach Hut]

Absolutely Yorkie I am travelling Easyjet to Bilbao for a W/E next month, £80 return for two adults.

Excellent value all round.

 

[Yorkie]

The £135 return was in May in case anyone is thinking that we did the flights out of season

 

[marvin]

Hardly worth discussing innit? Costs a fiver from Brighton station to Preston Park in a cab. One pound twenty on the 5B. A quid from London to Birmingham is simply a joke. Yeah, OK you make the headlines til a bigger story comes along - but you ain't gonna make any profit in a million year - and precious few punters gonna pay a quid either if you look beyond the small print. It's an insult to the intelligence to think otherwise aye? Stella El-Lard-Bucket is Fat and he knows he is

Actually you can do Birmingham to London and London to Birmingham 1 way for £1 now. Its a special offer by NE.

http://www.nationalexpress.com/p.cfm?n=pcc-bvf

 

[Lord Bracknell]

the cost of the buses will peared to the bone including paying his staff low wages and making them dress in orange, cruel bastard)

And why would any bus driver agree to be paid lower than the market rate? There's a chronic shortage of qualified bus drivers throughout the country (but especially in London and the South East). The government is pouring loads of extra subsidies into buses, but much of the money is not delivering better services in those areas where operators are trying to hold wages down. Drivers simply refuse to sign up to drive buses if white van driving pays better.

I based my earlier calculations on £8 an hour. The Go-Ahead Group (who also own Brighton & Hove Buses) pays its Oxford-based drivers £8 an hour basic, rising to £11.21 an hour for weekend overtime. (These figures are a year old, btw). And they still have a chronic shortage of drivers.

Stelios will find that the bus industry doesn't offer the glamour that seems to surround the airline business.

 

[marvin]

Woulden't put it past him to pay teenagers to drive the bus, serve drinks and other junk, and sweep the floor all at the same time.

 

[Yorkie]

Woulden't put it past him to pay teenagers to drive the bus, serve drinks and other junk, and sweep the floor all at the same time.

Apart from the fact that you need to be 21 to get a PSV (even if it is a minibus it would still need a PSV licence because people are paying)

How many Easy jet employees have you actually spoken to?

Most seemed very happy in their work whenever I've spoken to them at the airport.

 

[rool]

judging by his threads today marvin has been helping himself to the downers, either that or his character is a good reflection of his user name and avatar.

 

[marvin]

judging by his threads today marvin has been helping himself to the downers, either that or his character is a good reflection of his user name and avatar.

the latter its why I chose it