The MEGA travel giveaway from megabus.com 10,000 FREE seats available. Want to get from A to B for free? Try megabus.com! megabus.com are giving away a massive 10,000 FREE* seats for travel between the 9th January 2012 until 26th February 2012 on English and Welsh routes! To book your travel simply go online to www.megabus.com/wintersale and search for your travel destinations- there are a number of FREE* seats available on English and Welsh megabus routes.   FREE travel is available on journeys taken Monday - Thursday and your free seat will be valid for a single ...

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 ...

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...

Megabus has added a new cross-border option to its popular routes. The market-leading budget coach provider has introduced two new daily journeys between Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Ian Laing, Operations Manager for megabus.com  said: More and more people are looking for budget travel to help make their money go further. We are pleased to be able to expand our service to ensure we can offer passengers even more journey options than ever before. Visit the megabus.com and check the brand new services between England and West Scotland; Campbeltown...

Polish equivalent of the British megabus.com turned out to be a large success on the Polish market for passenger transport. This led the Souter Holdings Poland (the owner of PolskiBus.com) to invest in 50 new Van Hool coaches, expanding the fleet to 68 vehicles. The company carried over 175,000 people in its first three months of operation. We wrote more about PolskiBus.com here Brian Souter said: We have been delighted with the success of PolskiBus.com since its launch four months ago. This major new investment reflects our commitment to expanding the PolskiBus.com bu...

Overnight megabus.com service with beds to run between Glasgow and London New service offers budget fares, free wi-fi, toilets and on board refreshments Britain’s first budget sleeper coach service starts running between Glasgow and London from this evening (21 October 2011). The new pilot service is operated by Stagecoach Group’s market-leading budget coach provider megabus.com and offers fares ranging from £1 to £40. Passengers have their own berth, which is equipped with a reading light and curtain for extra privacy, as well as a duvet, pillow and blanket. ...

Passenger numbers on Hull buses shoot up 30% in past nine years Increase is equivalent of cutting more than 3.5m car trips from the city’s roads Strong partnership with Hull City Council key to success Hull has seen one of the biggest rises in public transport use in the UK over the past nine years, according to figures released today. The figures show that bus operators Stagecoach East Midlands and East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS) have seen combined passenger growth of 30% on their services in Hull since 2002-03 as more people ditch the car for convenient, go...