Arriva North West - Bolton Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Bolton Depot

(07/05/2016 03:27)CX54 DKD Wrote:  Arriva receive absolutely nothing for accepting Stagecoach passes though so why would they? If someone gets on using an Arriva pass, they've had money from them at some point. If someone gets on without a pass, they pay a fare. If someone gets on with a Stagecoach pass, there's nothing for Arriva. It's like expecting BA to allow you on with a Ryanair ticket just to boost the number on their service; it would never happen.

As for allowing them and then suddenly stopping, that'd certainly be an excellent way to drive away custom, not gain it.

I can see exactly where you're coming from CX54, yes buy one cheap airline ticket to use on a luxury airliner would be extremely unfair and that they wouldn't be aloud to check in if they had the cheap ticket.
Arriva only have three routes in Leigh Monday-Saturday one of which is operated in the daytime and the other two 593 and 658. Passengers don't have a choice of who operates their routes as that's down to Westminster and they can't set prices as that's down to the operator. I wouldn't want to be paying for a ticket that I can use several times on many different routes and then have to pay again for the odd journey, the same route with a different operator.