According to the Department of Transportation, the Christmas/New Year’s holiday periods are among the busiest travel periods of the year. With gas prices and airfares still high, megabus.com, the intercity express bus company, is seeing a drastic increase of holiday travelers and is looking forward to an average 25 - 35 percent increase in customers over a typical week throughout their Northeast, Southeast and Midwest network.
According to the Department of Transportation, the Christmas/New Year’s holiday periods are among the busiest travel periods of the year. With gas prices and airfares still high, megabus.com, the intercity express bus company, is seeing a drastic increase of holiday travelers and is looking forward to an average 25 - 35 percent increase in customers over a typical week throughout their Northeast, Southeast and Midwest network.
“Expensive airline and rail tickets and high gas prices can make visiting family and friends for the holidays seem out of reach,” said Dale Moser, president and COO of megabus.com. “Megabus.com’s affordable prices make it possible for millions of Americans to visit their loved ones during the holidays and all year long.”
The holidays aren’t the only time bus travel is popular. According to Joseph Schwieterman of the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University, annual growth rates for intercity motorcoach services ranged from 5.1 to 9.8 percent between 2006 and 2010 – largely in part to what Bloomberg Businessweek declared the “Megabus Effect”.
“Bus travel isn’t what it once was, we completely reinvented the concept,” said Moser. “Megabus.com has made safe, high quality bus travel affordable and convenient with our express service and cool with our free Wi-Fi and power outlets.”
For additional information about megabus.com’s holiday ridership, please contact Alyssa Cashman at 800.340.6434 or at
Alyssa@hanser.com.
About megabus.com Megabus.com is the largest privately funded provider of intercity express bus transportation, serving more than 70 major cities in North America. Megabus.com is the first bus line to offer safe, high-quality travel for as low as $1 via the Internet. Megabus.com currently operates service from seven hubs in Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C. and Toronto.
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megabus.com for a complete list of cities served. Service for megabus.com operates daily. Fares shown are one-way and include all government taxes. Since its launch on April 10, 2006, megabus.com has served more than 15 million travelers in North America. The company has created more than 500 new jobs throughout North America and employees undergo training of the highest industry standard.
For the latest news and travel deals, follow megabus.com on Twitter at @megabus and Like us on Facebook. Megabus.com is a subsidiary of Coach USA, one of the largest transportation companies in North America.
Paramus, N.J.-based Coach USA owns and operates more than 20 local companies in North America, some that have been in business for more than 70 years, which operate scheduled bus routes, motor coach tours, charters and sightseeing tours. Coach USA a subsidiary of UK-based Stagecoach Group, one of the largest publicly traded companies in the transportation industry. " title="megabus.com">megabus.com, the intercity express bus company, is seeing a drastic increase of holiday travelers and is looking forward to an average 25 - 35 percent increase in customers over a typical week throughout their Northeast, Southeast and Midwest network.
“Expensive airline and rail tickets and high gas prices can make visiting family and friends for the holidays seem out of reach,” said Dale Moser, president and COO of megabus.com. “Megabus.com’s affordable prices make it possible for millions of Americans to visit their loved ones during the holidays and all year long.”
The holidays aren’t the only time bus travel is popular. According to Joseph Schwieterman of the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University, annual growth rates for intercity motorcoach services ranged from 5.1 to 9.8 percent between 2006 and 2010 – largely in part to what Bloomberg Businessweek declared the “Megabus Effect”.
“Bus travel isn’t what it once was, we completely reinvented the concept,” said Moser. “Megabus.com has made safe, high quality bus travel affordable and convenient with our express service and cool with our free Wi-Fi and power outlets.”
For additional information about megabus.com’s holiday ridership, please contact Alyssa Cashman at 800.340.6434 or at
Alyssa@hanser.com.
About megabus.com
Megabus.com is the largest privately funded provider of intercity express bus transportation, serving more than 70 major cities in North America. Megabus.com is the first bus line to offer safe, high-quality travel for as low as $1 via the Internet. Megabus.com currently operates service from seven hubs in Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C. and Toronto. Visit [url=http://www.megabus.com]http://www.megabus.com[/url] for a complete list of cities served.
Service for megabus.com operates daily. Fares shown are one-way and include all government taxes. Since its launch on April 10, 2006, megabus.com has served more than 15 million travelers in North America.
The company has created more than 500 new jobs throughout North America and employees undergo training of the highest industry standard.
For the latest news and travel deals, follow megabus.com on Twitter at @megabus and Like us on
Facebook.
Megabus.com is a subsidiary of Coach USA, one of the largest transportation companies in North America. Paramus, N.J.-based Coach USA owns and operates more than 20 local companies in North America, some that have been in business for more than 70 years, which operate scheduled bus routes, motor coach tours, charters and sightseeing tours. Coach USA a subsidiary of UK-based Stagecoach Group, one of the largest publicly traded companies in the transportation industry.
