Warrington's Own Buses

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RE: WBT Network Warrington

(11/08/2014 21:02)RSTurbo50 Wrote:  For example, a trip on Network Warringtons 16 to Dallam costs £2.20 currently and is about a 10-15 minute trip. Fairbrothers is £1.30. A return for the same journey with Network Warrington is I believe £4. Fairbrothers return is £1.80.

You can see why passengers are using Fairbrothers more and more.

While it's great to see an independent like Fairbothers doing well the question is can they really sustain offering such low fares long term? They were apparently doing well and were busy while offering the £1 flat fare so if things were going so well why did they increase fares to £1.30?
We've seen it so many times where an operator has come along, taken on the big boys with very cheap fares, looked very much like they were getting it right only to go bump, because they wernt actually making any money.