Megabus (Europe)
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| Slogan | Low cost inter city bus travel serving Europe |
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| Parent | Stagecoach |
| Founded | August 2003 |
| Headquarters | Perth, Scotland |
| Service area | United Kingdom |
| Service type | Intercity coach services |
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London Victoria Coach Station Leeds City bus station Manchester Shudehill Interchange Glasgow Buchanan bus station |
| Operator | Various Stagecoach subsidiaries |
| Chief executive | Edward Hodgson |
| Website | uk |
Megabus is a long distance coach operator operated by the Stagecoach Group. It commenced operating in August 2003, initially in the United Kingdom, and later expanding into Europe. Some services link with Megatrain services, also operated by Stagecoach. Advertised fares start at £1 with a 50p booking fee, using a yield management model.
Services from London to Oxford commenced on 4 August 2003, and from Edinburgh to Glasgow and Perth and Glasgow to Dundee were added one month later. During November 2003 routes from Manchester to Liverpool and Leeds were added, but these ceased on 27 June 2004 and 3 October 2004 respectively.
On 1 March 2004 when a network of routes from London's Green Line Coach Station to Brighton, Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth, Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Cardiff, Swansea and Birmingham were added.
On 28 June 2004 routes from London to Milton Keynes, Leicester, Chesterfield, Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester and Glasgow were added and within two months these were followed by the expansion of the Scottish routes to include Aberdeen and Inverness. Stagecoach West lost the contract to run the National Express route between London, Cheltenham and Gloucester, prompting it to introduce competing Megabus services from 5 September 2004.
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