Bus Eireann Online Discount reduced to 5%

Weyhey

Bus Éireann customers are advised that on and from August 31st 2011 the discount on all available on-line National Tickets will be 5%.

http://www.buseireann.ie/news.php?id=996&month=Aug

AlekSmart

Weyhey wrote: »

Bus Éireann customers are advised that on and from August 31st 2011 the discount on all available on-line National Tickets will be 5%.

http://www.buseireann.ie/news.php?id=996&month=Aug

Hardly worth it ?

Brings back memories of the old CIE DCS multi-journey tickets which always carried a discount.

As financial circumstances worsened,and due to the pre-paids not being under Government control,the company gradually reduced the discount to.....zero...nuttin...but,guess what,the sales did'nt collapse but rather increased slightly over time.

T Corolla

Bus Eireann should be wound up. There is no incentive to travel with them. They need to restructure their services so that they can offer cheaper fares to low riding services. On example would be the cross country services could be timed to suit expressway services so they could offer passengers a reduced fair if they changed buses along the route. I live in Athlone and regularly travel to Cork and the fair is 30:15. There is never many on the bus for one reason the fair. If they reduced the fair or gave a 10 euro return fair if I changed in Portlaoise to travel on the expressway bus I'd do it. This is how many transport systems work across the world and they are in no way as expensive.

dowlingm

T Corolla wrote: »

This is how many transport systems work across the world and they are in no way as expensive.

For example?

LXFlyer

T Corolla wrote: »

Bus Eireann should be wound up. There is no incentive to travel with them. They need to restructure their services so that they can offer cheaper fares to low riding services. On example would be the cross country services could be timed to suit expressway services so they could offer passengers a reduced fair if they changed buses along the route. I live in Athlone and regularly travel to Cork and the fair is 30:15. There is never many on the bus for one reason the fair. If they reduced the fair or gave a 10 euro return fair if I changed in Portlaoise to travel on the expressway bus I'd do it. This is how many transport systems work across the world and they are in no way as expensive.

The fare is set on a commercial basis - there is no subsidy for that service.

T Corolla

T Corolla wrote: »

Bus Eireann should be wound up. There is no incentive to travel with them. They need to restructure their services so that they can offer cheaper fares to low riding services. On example would be the cross country services could be timed to suit expressway services so they could offer passengers a reduced fair if they changed buses along the route. I live in Athlone and regularly travel to Cork and the fair is 30:15. There is never many on the bus for one reason the fair. If they reduced the fair or gave a 10 euro return fair if I changed in Portlaoise to travel on the expressway bus I'd do it. This is how many transport systems work across the world and they are in no way as expensive.

In New york the subway is constructed in a way that allows people to change trains to get to destinations that are not on the direct line from their starting position. I agree that these fares are not subsised but in Bus Eireann cases in order to increase ridership they need to have these fares in place

Liamallica

Certainly not worth bothering to prepay a trip, for the sake of 60c or so. Printing the page costs 10c etc.