- First Bus in Aberdeen announced a price hike today, significantly (for students at least) Student Day Tickets have risen from £3.20 to £3.50
- I see @FirstAberdeen have had another ticket hike. Disgraceful. We must organise alternatives #aberdeen pic.twitter.com/IryFyvLwnXLwnX
http://twitter.com/rgu_vpenet/status/318701509678358530
— Paul Greene (@rgu_vpenet)Mon, Apr 01 2013 12:28:56 - @rgu_vpenet Hi Paul, yes, we've had a fares revision, the first in 15 months, but the Student 4 weekly has been held at £50
http://twitter.com/FirstAberdeen/status/318703722710581249
— First Aberdeen (@FirstAberdeen)Mon, Apr 01 2013 12:37:43 - @rgu_vpenet @FirstAberdeen The way First have conducted themselves in Aberdeen in recent years is beyond contemptible.
http://twitter.com/euanldavidson/status/318703865308524544
— euan (@euanldavidson)Mon, Apr 01 2013 12:38:17 - @rgu_vpenet @FirstAberdeen They post enormous profits figures to the press, but their staff and customers suffer. Ridiculous.
http://twitter.com/euanldavidson/status/318704009584193538
— euan (@euanldavidson)Mon, Apr 01 2013 12:38:51 - First Aberdeen try to defend their profit margins, and say that the figures we've all seen refer to the whole company, implying Aberdeen isn't doing so well. This might be important later
- @euanldavidson @rgu_vpenet Hi Euan, I think you'll find that the figures you see in the press are for the whole of First, not First Aberdeen
http://twitter.com/FirstAberdeen/status/318704911200169984
— First Aberdeen (@FirstAberdeen)Mon, Apr 01 2013 12:42:26 - @FirstAberdeen @rgu_vpenet Yes, granted, but to customers it looks extremely dodgy - bad PR to toast profits publicly then increase fares
http://twitter.com/euanldavidson/status/318705192218537984
— euan (@euanldavidson)Mon, Apr 01 2013 12:43:33 - @FirstAberdeen @euanldavidson yeah I'm sure first bus found their fares 'revision' unnavoidable as they run their aberdeen monopoly.
http://twitter.com/rgu_vpenet/status/318705614526246912
— Paul Greene (@rgu_vpenet)Mon, Apr 01 2013 12:45:14 - @rgu_vpenet @euanldavidson Paul, the provision of a bus service in any part of the UK outside London is a free market.
http://twitter.com/FirstAberdeen/status/318706337838141442
— First Aberdeen (@FirstAberdeen)Mon, Apr 01 2013 12:48:06 - First now try to compare themselves to Supermarkets in a preposterous attempt at spin, it's not really a very good defence at all
- @euanldavidson @rgu_vpenet Euan, this is our first fares revision in 15 months, and at least we tell our customers, unlike supermarkets!
http://twitter.com/FirstAberdeen/status/318705837227003904
— First Aberdeen (@FirstAberdeen)Mon, Apr 01 2013 12:46:07 - @FirstAberdeen @rgu_vpenet no-one mentioned supermarkets, it's not as if I was saying "...but at least you're not Sainsburys!"?!
http://twitter.com/euanldavidson/status/318706108501987328
— euan (@euanldavidson)Mon, Apr 01 2013 12:47:12 - @euanldavidson @FirstAberdeen supermarkets generally have real competition, rather than giving students no option.
http://twitter.com/rgu_vpenet/status/318706401746759681
— Paul Greene (@rgu_vpenet)Mon, Apr 01 2013 12:48:22 - @euanldavidson @rgu_vpenet I mentioned supermarkets coz they are an example of a sector that doesn't tell you of a price change
http://twitter.com/FirstAberdeen/status/318707225944281088
— First Aberdeen (@FirstAberdeen)Mon, Apr 01 2013 12:51:38 - @FirstAberdeen @rgu_vpenet this is a pretty desperate attempt to steer the conversation from the price hike - students are getting poorer,
http://twitter.com/euanldavidson/status/318708274507677696
— euan (@euanldavidson)Mon, Apr 01 2013 12:55:48 - @FirstAberdeen @rgu_vpenet and have no choice but to use your service. Akin to the seemingly constant threat of strikes, it seems as if
http://twitter.com/euanldavidson/status/318708403956498432
— euan (@euanldavidson)Mon, Apr 01 2013 12:56:19 - @FirstAberdeen @rgu_vpenet First Bus in Aberdeen just don't care about students or its own work force, and given that your headquarters are
http://twitter.com/euanldavidson/status/318708981935796224
— euan (@euanldavidson)Mon, Apr 01 2013 12:58:37 - @FirstAberdeen @rgu_vpenet here, well, I think you can imagine what I'm getting at.
http://twitter.com/euanldavidson/status/318709213704626177
— euan (@euanldavidson)Mon, Apr 01 2013 12:59:32 - @euanldavidson @rgu_vpenet So because First are based in Aberdeen we should subsidise the bus fares?
http://twitter.com/FirstAberdeen/status/318711075174490113
— First Aberdeen (@FirstAberdeen)Mon, Apr 01 2013 13:06:56 - I don't think anyone suggested subsidised fares, but I am sure people would expect to be treated reasonably and to have public transport priced in an affordable manner
- @FirstAberdeen @rgu_vpenet of course not, but the phrase "don't shit in your own back garden" springs to mind. As a company, I imagine you
http://twitter.com/euanldavidson/status/318711586489499648
— euan (@euanldavidson)Mon, Apr 01 2013 13:08:58 - First decide to resort to using maths to try and confuse people. The original argument was about student Day Tickets, which have risen by 30p - a price hike of almost 10%. It's easy to hide this when you go for figures across the network.
- @euanldavidson @rgu_vpenet Euan, our fares revison is less that 2.3% overall. RPI figures for Feb are 3.2% and inflation in Jan was 2.7%
http://twitter.com/FirstAberdeen/status/318713298059161600
— First Aberdeen (@FirstAberdeen)Mon, Apr 01 2013 13:15:46 - @FirstAberdeen @euanldavidson @rgu_vpenet funny that First still manage to do student singles for £1 in Leeds, why not here?
http://twitter.com/Really_Ryan/status/318715107490279424
— Ryan Maclean (@Really_Ryan)Mon, Apr 01 2013 13:22:57
