- 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
@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
@rgu_vpenet @FirstAberdeen The way First have conducted themselves in Aberdeen in recent years is beyond contemptible.- @rgu_vpenet @FirstAberdeen They post enormous profits figures to the press, but their staff and customers suffer. Ridiculous.
- 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
- @FirstAberdeen @rgu_vpenet Yes, granted, but to customers it looks extremely dodgy - bad PR to toast profits publicly then increase fares
@FirstAberdeen @euanldavidson yeah I'm sure first bus found their fares 'revision' unnavoidable as they run their aberdeen monopoly.- @rgu_vpenet @euanldavidson Paul, the provision of a bus service in any part of the UK outside London is a free market.
- 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!
- @FirstAberdeen @rgu_vpenet no-one mentioned supermarkets, it's not as if I was saying "...but at least you're not Sainsburys!"?!
- @euanldavidson @FirstAberdeen supermarkets generally have real competition, rather than giving students no option.
- @euanldavidson @rgu_vpenet I mentioned supermarkets coz they are an example of a sector that doesn't tell you of a price change
- @FirstAberdeen @rgu_vpenet this is a pretty desperate attempt to steer the conversation from the price hike - students are getting poorer,
- @FirstAberdeen @rgu_vpenet and have no choice but to use your service. Akin to the seemingly constant threat of strikes, it seems as if
- @FirstAberdeen @rgu_vpenet First Bus in Aberdeen just don't care about students or its own work force, and given that your headquarters are
- @FirstAberdeen @rgu_vpenet here, well, I think you can imagine what I'm getting at.
- @euanldavidson @rgu_vpenet So because First are based in Aberdeen we should subsidise the bus fares?
- 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
- 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%
@FirstAberdeen @euanldavidson @rgu_vpenet funny that First still manage to do student singles for £1 in Leeds, why not here?
FirstBus PR fail
First Bus Aberdeen try to defend their extortionate price rises and it doesn't go too well
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