Book a coach journey with National Express this month and you’ll receive a festive 50% off your first trip in 2012.As an early Christmas present to their customers the UK’s largest coach operator is offering a half price voucher to everyone who books and travels between 1 and 31 December.The 50% off voucher is valid to any town or city nationwide and can be redeemed on coach travel between 4 January and 23 March 2012.National Express are currently offering over 150,000 fares for under £6 this December, making coach one of the most affordable and reliable ways of travel...

Transport group also scoops Environment accolade at 2011 UK Bus Awards Stagecoach also recognised for marketing, driving and depot excellence Transport group Stagecoach is celebrating after its Oxford Tube service was named Top Express Coach Operator the day before yesterday (Tuesday 29 November) at the 2011 UK Bus Awards. Learn more about Oxford Tube links & How to get from London to Oxford by coach The coach service – which links Oxford and London and is Europe’s most frequent coach service – won the award after being praised by judges for the standard ...

National Express - 150,000 seats now available for £6 or less The Nat Ex’s great „Funfare” offer is back. Funfares are the cheapest tickets available only online on a limited number of routes. The earlier you book the ticket, the more likely it is that you get the lowest price. Now everyone travelling around Britain, may travel in comfortable coaches at low prices. 150,000 seats available now at http://www.nationalexpress.com/coach/offers/funfare/funfares.cfm Travel for just six pounds or under by clicking the link above. National Express is the biggest coach ...

The Eurolines Organisation has reappointed John Gilbert as President for a second term at their annual conference in Ulm, Germany.The Eurolines group is composed of 32 independent transport operators which together form Europe's largest regular coach network. As well as being President of the Organisation John Gilbert is also Managing Director of Eurolines UK, part of National Express.Eurolines members from across Europe, including representatives from Veolia Transdev and Deutsche Touring met at the two day conference in Germany earlier this month. Key items on the agenda i...

Stagecoach’s X4 line linking Peterborough, Oundle, Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough, Northampton and Milton Keynes changes into a gold-standard service. But what does this mean? From November 26th, Stagecoachs’ buses on this route will be equipped with some extras:Passengers on board the new "Gold X4" will benefit from free Wi-Fi and they’ll sit in comfortable hand-stiched Italian leather seats. The Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 bodied Scania N230UD's buses are equipped with environmentally friendly Euro 5 engines. The drivers operating the new X4 Gold route will be ...

Stagecoach Group co-founder and Chief Executive Sir Brian Souter today (18 November 2011) received his knighthood at an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Sir Brian (57) was awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June 2011 for services to transport and the voluntary sector. One of the UK’s foremost entrepreneurs, Sir Brian is a significant supporter of charitable causes and the country’s leading public transport innovator. He co-founded Stagecoach with his sister, Ann Gloag, in 1980 with just two buses and has developed the company into...

14th of October 2011 was the last day for 2 Lux Express services on the route Riga – Tallinn (departures from Tallinn at 00.30 and from Riga at 21.30)The last departures on the above mentioned journeys were the following: Tallinn - Riga at 00.30 – on 14th of October 2011 Riga –Tallinn at 21.30 – on 14th of October 2011 It is a pity that the carrier was forced to reduce number of connections in Eurolines’ network. The reason is very high price for petrol....

From December 1st, the new bus company WESTBUS (www.westbus.at) which is cooperating with the new railway operator WESTBAHN (www.westbahn.at) will provide public transportation on the following domestic and international routes: Vienna - Klagenfurt Klagenfurt - Villach - Salzburg Salzburg - Munich Airport Graz - Linz Linz - Ceske Budejovice - Prague Furthermore coaches and trains of Westbahn and Westbus will be coordinated. Coach fleet 4 Setra double decker coaches, type S 431 DT with 78 seats - used on the routes: Salzburg - Munich Airport and Klagenfurt - ...