Post by Admin on Jun 10, 2024 16:28:43 GMT
Normally here will be placed soon the big ferry-bus lesson from an international travel- and transport-prof. .
A ferry-bus has nothing to do with the poor Terminal-buses known from ports around UK and Ireland -
Ferry-bus means an integrated modern traffic-system from city-center A to city-center B without any change, waiting or walking around with baggage, luggage, strollers, rollators, scooters, bicycles etc. .
The bus-driver load in city-center A all these things in the bus (+ optional baggage-trailer) and unload it in city-center B.
Worldwide best leading ferry-bus-system is the KOMBARDOEXPRESSEN from Molslinjen in Denmark and most ferry-companies from North-Europe to Spain has similar ferry-bus-systems.
There are 3 cheap Expressbus-routes meeting onboard of a 38 knots fast Catamaran every 1-2 hours and the people can change the buses onboard for to come so close as possible to the wished destination for cheapest ticket-prices.
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But now today here we look first actually to Ireland and UK:
In the Flixbus-booking-system are now all stops from the Irish EXPRESSWAY long-distance-bus-routes.
So this means that Flixbus will start soon also in Ireland to offer a lot of bus-routes to Dublin for cheapest prices as actually between the cities in UK.
It will be any kind of cooperation or overtaking with / from Expressway.
And f.ex. Dublin - London is possible to choose also in the booking-system !
Still not with departures - but it will come latest next year, it takes a little bit time to make all the contracts with the bus-companies and the ferry-companies, route-licenses from Governments, construction of new buses (Flixbus accept only new buses usually) etc. .
Will be interesting if they will use Stena Line or Irish Ferries.
At Dover some of their bus-routes use the Isle of Inishmore from Irish Ferries - but the Flixbus-Polska route Oslo-Göteborg-Växjö-Gdansk-Lodz-Katowice-Krakow via Karlskrona-Gdynia use the Stena Line night-ferry there.
Why is all this important for travelers to/from Ireland ?
- THE PRICES WILL GO DOWN MASSIVE ! ((F.ex. Flixbus Bristol-London costs only 3,- , London-Paris or London-Cologne costs 29,90 including Dover-ferry, Växjö-Gdansk costs 48,- including 2-berth-cabin on the night-ferry))
- Competing Citylink-bus-company must follow with massive lower ticket-prices - or close their routes.
- The travel-times from door to door will be shorter than today.
- It will be much more comfortable, think they would f.ex. offer a bus-route Galway-Dublin-Birmingham-London.
Then you can board the bus in Galway with biggest luggage, baggage, stroller, wintersport-equip., scooter, rollator, bicycle etc. .
And in Birmingham or London you leave the bus - without any change between - without any walking or stairs and without any waiting anywhere between different traffic-systems (f.ex. ferry + railway).
- It will be much more connections, they try to operate so often as possible, f.ex. to Paris are circa 10 double-deck-coaches daily.
- Also possible that they follow the Expert-advice and will offer in the next years routes as Dublin-Sheffield/Leeds/Liverpool/Manchester/Newcastle too.
- And well for the ferries, there will be more people onboard than today with often empty "ghost-ferries". The ferry-companies must buy bigger more comfortable Passenger-ferries in future.
- Railway-companies must follow and go down with their ticket-prices massive - or they will loose a lot of customers.
There was biggest chances over decades for the ferry-companies to start OWN attractive ferry-buses between Ireland and UK - also via Rosslare to the big cities in Wales (Swansea, Newport, Cardiff etc.).
They could offer it cheaper than all bus-companies because they must not pay anything for their own bus on the ferry - and their bus-drivers could also help onboard f.ex. in the shop, if the ferry-trip takes 3 hours, then the driver has 1 hour break and 2 hours helping in the bord-shop = saves crew-costs also.
But the ferry-managers wanted sadly only freight-transport as main-business... - and most people in Ireland in other Internet-places does not understand it too how super-important ferry-buses are today and in future.
But now i guess that it is too late and Flixbus will take over the complete passenger-travel-market and customer-potential.
They are worldwide biggest and can operate also 1 or 2 years bus-routes with super-cheap prices - in most European countries is already a Flixbus-monopoly-situation.
But in Denmark Kombardoexpressen hold again with its own ferry-buses.
A ferry-bus has nothing to do with the poor Terminal-buses known from ports around UK and Ireland -
Ferry-bus means an integrated modern traffic-system from city-center A to city-center B without any change, waiting or walking around with baggage, luggage, strollers, rollators, scooters, bicycles etc. .
The bus-driver load in city-center A all these things in the bus (+ optional baggage-trailer) and unload it in city-center B.
Worldwide best leading ferry-bus-system is the KOMBARDOEXPRESSEN from Molslinjen in Denmark and most ferry-companies from North-Europe to Spain has similar ferry-bus-systems.
There are 3 cheap Expressbus-routes meeting onboard of a 38 knots fast Catamaran every 1-2 hours and the people can change the buses onboard for to come so close as possible to the wished destination for cheapest ticket-prices.
www.herning-turist.dk/CustomerData/Files/Images/Gallery/2022-kombardo-galleri_74190/img_0903_4756.jpg
standby.dk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/kombardo-ekspressen-prfoto-2-scaled-e1646400119421.jpg
www.vertica.dk/media/jomo4iuz/app-banner.jpg?center=0.495,0.255&mode=crop&width=1200&rnd=133129070989970000&heightratio=1
But now today here we look first actually to Ireland and UK:
In the Flixbus-booking-system are now all stops from the Irish EXPRESSWAY long-distance-bus-routes.
So this means that Flixbus will start soon also in Ireland to offer a lot of bus-routes to Dublin for cheapest prices as actually between the cities in UK.
It will be any kind of cooperation or overtaking with / from Expressway.
And f.ex. Dublin - London is possible to choose also in the booking-system !
Still not with departures - but it will come latest next year, it takes a little bit time to make all the contracts with the bus-companies and the ferry-companies, route-licenses from Governments, construction of new buses (Flixbus accept only new buses usually) etc. .
Will be interesting if they will use Stena Line or Irish Ferries.
At Dover some of their bus-routes use the Isle of Inishmore from Irish Ferries - but the Flixbus-Polska route Oslo-Göteborg-Växjö-Gdansk-Lodz-Katowice-Krakow via Karlskrona-Gdynia use the Stena Line night-ferry there.
Why is all this important for travelers to/from Ireland ?
- THE PRICES WILL GO DOWN MASSIVE ! ((F.ex. Flixbus Bristol-London costs only 3,- , London-Paris or London-Cologne costs 29,90 including Dover-ferry, Växjö-Gdansk costs 48,- including 2-berth-cabin on the night-ferry))
- Competing Citylink-bus-company must follow with massive lower ticket-prices - or close their routes.
- The travel-times from door to door will be shorter than today.
- It will be much more comfortable, think they would f.ex. offer a bus-route Galway-Dublin-Birmingham-London.
Then you can board the bus in Galway with biggest luggage, baggage, stroller, wintersport-equip., scooter, rollator, bicycle etc. .
And in Birmingham or London you leave the bus - without any change between - without any walking or stairs and without any waiting anywhere between different traffic-systems (f.ex. ferry + railway).
- It will be much more connections, they try to operate so often as possible, f.ex. to Paris are circa 10 double-deck-coaches daily.
- Also possible that they follow the Expert-advice and will offer in the next years routes as Dublin-Sheffield/Leeds/Liverpool/Manchester/Newcastle too.
- And well for the ferries, there will be more people onboard than today with often empty "ghost-ferries". The ferry-companies must buy bigger more comfortable Passenger-ferries in future.
- Railway-companies must follow and go down with their ticket-prices massive - or they will loose a lot of customers.
There was biggest chances over decades for the ferry-companies to start OWN attractive ferry-buses between Ireland and UK - also via Rosslare to the big cities in Wales (Swansea, Newport, Cardiff etc.).
They could offer it cheaper than all bus-companies because they must not pay anything for their own bus on the ferry - and their bus-drivers could also help onboard f.ex. in the shop, if the ferry-trip takes 3 hours, then the driver has 1 hour break and 2 hours helping in the bord-shop = saves crew-costs also.
But the ferry-managers wanted sadly only freight-transport as main-business... - and most people in Ireland in other Internet-places does not understand it too how super-important ferry-buses are today and in future.
But now i guess that it is too late and Flixbus will take over the complete passenger-travel-market and customer-potential.
They are worldwide biggest and can operate also 1 or 2 years bus-routes with super-cheap prices - in most European countries is already a Flixbus-monopoly-situation.
But in Denmark Kombardoexpressen hold again with its own ferry-buses.