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Tickets for the combined Megabus/Citylink services are available through both companies' websites, though often at conflicting prices. From 16 February 2006, the slower Citylink service between Dundee, Perth and Glasgow became available to book through the Megabus website, restoring Perth bus station to the Megabus network.
This was announced a month prior to the introduction of the services. A third route, which operates entirely outside the UK, links Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam. [10] [11] In 2013, Megabus started a route between Cologne, Brussels, Gent and London. [12] In 2014, Megabus launched a route between London, Paris, Toulouse and Barcelona.
Megabus is a low cost, "no-frills" intercity coach service launched in the United Kingdom by Stagecoach in 2003, on 10 April 2006 in the United States, and in 2009 within Canada. Its main rival in the UK is National Express , who have had to lower their prices to compete with Megabus.
The Oxford Tube brand has endured, whereas the Oxford Bus Company's London route was rebranded the Oxford Express in 2000, espress in 2004, and X90 Oxford-London in 2012. The Heathrow service was rebranded the Airline in 2001. In 2003, Stagecoach introduced Megabus to the route, using different termini in both Oxford and London. However, in ...
Citylink service numbers, timetables and routes were also sacrificed in favour of Megabus where the two brands overlapped. In March 2006 the Competition Commission launched an investigation and ruled that the joint venture substantially reduced competition and that evidence suggested it led to higher fares on some routes. [ 16 ]
A national network links more than 550 routes, including many of the UK mainland's cities, with 11,000 cross-country journeys every week as of 2022. [15]Plaxton Premiere bodied Volvo B10M at Manchester Airport in April 2003 Stagecoach Yorkshire Plaxton Panther bodied Volvo B12B in the 2003 livery at Southampton in 2008 Selwyns Travel's Plaxton Elite bodied Volvo B9R in Liverpool
It is the UK's busiest bus and coach station with over 1,600 services each day to over 1,000 destinations. [1] An estimated 13% of air passengers using Heathrow Airport use bus and coach services from Heathrow Central bus station.
Megabus may refer to: Megabus (Europe) , a low-cost coach service with services in Europe owned by ComfortDelGro. Megabus (North America) , a low-cost bus service in the United States and Canada owned by Variant Equity Advisors.