NX Germany 'city2city'

[winston]

Not yet seen any mention of the launch in the UK national press / trade press, but NX have now commenced their new 'city2city' coach operation from 2nd April with an initial 3 routes centred on Frankfurt in Germany with brand new Mercedes Tourismo

https://www.city2city.de/en/web/guest/firma

https://www.facebook.com/city2city.de

[winston]

Things seem to going pretty well for NX in Germany, they are adding 2 new routes in North Germany & increasing the number of journey's on one of the initial routes introduced.

The fleet now comprises 22 x Mercedes-Benz Turismos

http://www.nationalexpressgroup.com/media/allnews.aspx?newsyear=2013&newsitem=1013

[Liverpool Street]

Oh shoot I saw a poster in the garage with this I thought it was a joke!!

Fair play, nice fleet too.

[winston]

City 2 City in Germany is now a year old, NX are planning to expand the network to include a further 4 cities in the coming months

http://www.nationalexpressgroup.com/media/allnews.aspx?newsyear=2014&newsitem=1286

[winston]

NX subsidiary city2city are claiming to have tripled their network from 1st July in cooperation with BerlinLinienBus

https://www.city2city.de/en/buy-and-schedules

https://www.berlinlinienbus.de/index.php

[winston]

NX Group are shutting down their 'city2city' German coach business on 13th October due to running up losses of £2 Million as they don't see a way a building a sustainable business due to low ticket prices & a highly competitive market, I assume the rail business will be unaffected/continue:

http://www.zeit.de/mobilitaet/2014-09/city2city-fernbus-deutschland

[winston]

Interesting with differences in success between NX city2city & MeinFernbus which appears to have also started from scratch a year earlier than city2city

http://www.busandcoach.com/news/articles/meinfernbus-network-doubles-in-nine-mont/