[News] Avanti West Coast.

[Leekbrookgull]

Given £6.5m performance bonus for 2021,you couldn't make it up.

 

[Springal]

Absolute shambles. I regularly travel up that way either for leisure or work and it’s been impossible since covid. Lucky if there is even 1 train an hour, with tickets only being released / sold at full price, 3 weeks before travel. Shambles

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Given £6.5m performance bonus for 2021,you couldn't make it up.

Astonishing. I don't believe there has ever been a worse train company. Our last journey with them took around 12 hours from Euston to Preston, and involved being dumped and abandoned in Rugby with a trainload of fellow sufferers at one in the morning, and a 2.5 hour taxi trip on to Preston, eventually reaching our destination at 6am. I've not forgiven them for their utter incompetence and ambivalence. Mind you, we did get our money back in the end, so at least it was a cheap journey.

 

[Guinness Boy]

It’s a terrible service and they’re far worse than Virgin, but haven’t most of their big issues been in 2022? In ‘21 there were still a lot of months where you couldn’t travel.

 

[Stat Brother]

I for one am grateful we are able to incentivise the Italian owners of Avanti.

 

[B-right-on]

Went to Manchester last weekend. First train from Euston cancelled. Second train pulls up in Nuneaton and the driver announced that the train had been hijacked (his actual words) and we all had to get off as they were sending it back to Euston.

I asked the train guard what's happening and she said she didn't know and hadn't been told about it untill they pulled into Nuneaton. She was obviously kept in the dark and you could see the frustration in the lady.

One hell of a performance to get such a bonus.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

It's the shittest company that ever existed. An absolute shambles that cant run even the basics. I live in the Midlands and dread catching the train as every f***ing time their shitshow ends in some sort of crisis.

Someone will die in those trains soon. Fight between people using it, crush, whatever. It sound hyperbole but it's not. Still, I'm sure the media will leave with Megan and Harry. That's obviously what's more important.

 

[Superphil]

As has been suggested by Mr Baine, Renationalisation, without Compensation. The question is, does Starmer have the ability or inclination to do it?

 

[drew]

It’s a terrible service and they’re far worse than Virgin, but haven’t most of their big issues been in 2022? In ‘21 there were still a lot of months where you couldn’t travel.

This. I'm guessing these bonuses were written into the contract however you'd think there would have to be some sort of contingency that the levels of service have to be maintained.