National Express Coaches - Operations

Operations

See also: List of National Express Coach routes

National Express offer many standard routes to destinations across the country. In addition, shuttle and airport services are also operated, although there is no obvious difference to the passenger between a standard, shuttle or airport service with regard to branding.

Many 'National Express' coach routes pass through several town centres, which increases journey times for longer journeys considerably. A smaller number of Shuttle services operate at least once an hour over faster direct routes. Shuttle services operate on the following routes:

National Express operate a number of Airport services to a number of different airports, including Gatwick, Heathrow, East Midlands and Luton. The Airport brand was created in 2003 when the National Express image brand was updated - it merged the former Airlink, Flightlink, Jetlink and Speedlink brands, which were confusing, especially to passengers travelling between Heathrow and Gatwick airports. In the 2007 re-brand, the Airport branding was dropped, although the 'Airport' coding is still used on tickets.

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