Optare has taken the decision to temporarily suspend production. Its staff have been furloughed or moved to home working until further notice. The move is a result of the UK’s coronavirus measures and changes in the supply of key components, such as engines, and the suspension in UK government testing of vehicles for three months. […]
The Scottish Government will provide bus operators with additional financial assistance to maintain essential services. This is intended to offset the impact that reduced demand is having on the viability of local services for key workers and to protect the industry for the future. The intention is to maintain concessionary travel reimbursement and Bus Service […]
Together with our legal partners, Stone King, and with expertise from One Associates and from financial experts Milsted Langdon, we are running a webinar to help you through the current problems. If you have not joined a webinar before, it’s very simple, and you will remain anonymous. Just click on the link below, and you […]
It is with huge regret that we have to tell readers that we have suspended publication of Bus and Coach Buyer magazine through April. We are entirely dependent on advertising for all our revenues, and in the last fortnight, unsurprisingly, our clients have had to reduce or cancel marketing programmes, including advertising. We are extremely […]
The Coach Tourism Association says it has a seat at the table of TIER – the Tourism Industry Emergency Response group – talking directly to ministers to mitigate the tourism crash and plan for recovery. John Wales, the CTA’s Chairman, told Bus and Coach Buyer that the key to emerging from the health crisis strongly […]
Senior Traffic Commissioner, Richard Turfitt, has put in place interim guidance on financial standing in light of the coronavirus pandemic. The Senior Traffic Commissioner has directed that a Traffic Commissioner may rely on a previous satisfactory financial check which meets the new prescribed sum, within the last 12 months, as evidence to support the granting […]
Shearings is under fire from customers, having cancelled its tours until the end of April and now refusing to give refunds, claiming a ‘force majeure.’ The Wigan-based company is using a European Union proposal, which is understood to currently be changing the Package Travel Regulation to remove the onus to refund monies paid for tours, […]
Despite mass cancellations of bookings in the industry due to the pandemic, Hunt’s Coaches of Lincolnshire has had Mrs Ware and Mrs Pulham book a break later this year. They are not the only ones either, as the company reports many of its customers who have had tours cancelled have requested their bookings are transferred […]