Saturday 26th October 2024 Three of Britain's bus routes numbered 100 serve airports. We've already ridden Metrobus's Crawley to Redhill via Gatwick Airport and Arriva's Stevenage to Luton via Luton Airport, and this latest review features the third - and one aimed specifically at serving the airport market; in Edinburgh. Lothian Buses operates three routes... Continue Reading →
Thursday 13th June 2024 Another interesting new bus service I took a look at on my travels last week is Arriva North East’s AIRLINK Northumberland branded route 777 providing an hourly direct link between Morpeth, Ponteland and Newcastle Airport before continuing to the Kingston Park shopping centre on the outskirts of Newcastle. It was introduced... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 2nd January 2024 For many years Transport for Edinburgh has enjoyed a monopoly on the lucrative travel market between Edinburgh Airport and the city centre. That’s not to say passengers haven’t been well served. Lothian Buses regularly upgrades its Airlink 100 branded frequent bus route by investing in impressive new buses creating a high... Continue Reading →
Thursday 27th July 2023 Following the good news story in Tuesday’s blog discussing the bus boom in East Sussex I’d intended to keep the good news rolling today with another blog about an exciting new service connecting Oxfordshire with neighbouring West Berkshire but yesterday's travel plans were thwarted by a signalling problem disrupting trains out... Continue Reading →
Sunday 8th March 2020 Dublin's hotly contested airport to city centre public transport market began a new three way contest this week with the arrival of a new Dublin Express branded route run by Bernard Kavanagh Coaches on behalf of National Express alongside the long established Airlink operated by Dublin Bus and Aircoach run by... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 16th October 2019 Xplore Dundee, the National Express owned bus company in Dundee, launched a brand new airport express coach service back in June linking the city directly with Edinburgh Airport via the A90 and M90. Four months on I thought it was a good time to take a look and see how it... Continue Reading →
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