PolskiBus was a Polish express coach operator. Owned by
Brian Souter
Sir Brian Souter (born 5 May 1954) is a Scottish businessman. With his sister, Ann Gloag, he founded the Stagecoach Group of bus and rail operators. He also founded the bus and coach operator Megabus, the train operating company South West Train ...
's
Highland Global Transport, it commenced operating in June 2011.
[About PolskiBus.com]
Polski Bus.com It was sold to
Flixbus in December 2017 with the PolskiBus brand retired in February 2018.
Services
PolskiBus commenced operating in June 2011 operating eight routes with 18 coaches.
[ As of March 2017 it operated services on 16 routes within Poland (establishing connection between 26 Polish cities) and additionally 8 international destinations including ]Berlin
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, Bratislava
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, Budapest
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, Prague
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, Vienna
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, and Vilnius
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.
Advertised fares started at zł 1 plus zł 1 booking fee, using a yield management
Yield management is a variable pricing strategy, based on understanding, anticipating and influencing consumer behavior in order to maximize revenue or profits from a fixed, time-limited resource (such as airline seats or hotel room reservations ...
model as employed by Megabus Megabus may refer to:
*Megabus (Europe), a low-cost coach service with services in Europe owned by ComfortDelGro.
*Megabus (North America)
Megabus, branded as megabus.com, is an intercity bus service of Coach USA/ Coach Canada operating in the ...
.
In 2018, PolskiBus merged with Flixbus which took over PolskiBus' routes in Poland and around.
Fleet
The company began operations with a fleet of 18 Van Hool
Van Hool NV () is a Belgium, Belgian family-owned coachbuilder and manufacturer of buses, Coach (bus), coaches, trolleybuses, and Semi-trailer, trailers.
Most of the buses and coaches are built entirely by Van Hool, with engines and axle ...
Altano TD921 coaches. It later expanded with Van Hool Astromega TD927s and Plaxton Elite i
The Plaxton Elite is a coach body unveiled at the Euro Bus Expo at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham in November 2008 by the British bus and coach manufacturer Plaxton. It is primarily targeted at the premium touring market. It went int ...
bodied Volvo B11R
The Volvo B11R is a 10.8-litre engined coach chassis available as both two- and tri-axle from Volvo since 2011. It was introduced as the second of the Volvo BXXR series, replacing the rest of the B12B range in 2011, and later its fellow BXXR pl ...
s.[PolskiBus.com expands with LHD Plaxtons ''Buses'' issue 715 October 2014 page 16]
References
External links
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Bus transport in Poland
Transport companies established in 2011
Transport companies disestablished in 2018
2011 establishments in Poland
2018 disestablishments in Poland
Polish Limited Liability Companies