Press release
25/10/2011
- New budget coach services out of Atlanta, Georgia, to 11 major cities
- Over 70 locations now served across the United States and Canada
- More than 13 million customers benefit from great value travel deals
- Successful low-cost coach provider has created more than 500 jobs
Stagecoach Group announced today (25 October 2011) that it is expanding the North American network run by its market-leading budget coach operator megabus.com to the southern United States.
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Low-cost coach services will start running out of a new hub in Atlanta, Georgia, to 11 cities in the states of Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee and Florida from next month.
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More than 500 new jobs have been created by megabus.com throughout North America as the successful brand has expanded rapidly to service new cities.
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The latest expansion means megabus.com – which offers daily, express coach travel for as low as £1 in the UK and from $1 in North America – will link 72 cities in the United States and Canada via seven hubs.
Services already operate out of hubs in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C. and Toronto.
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The Atlanta hub will offer services to Birmingham, Ala.; Charlotte, N.C.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Gainesville, Fla.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Memphis, Tenn.; Mobile, Ala.; Montgomery, Ala.; Nashville, Tenn.; and Orlando, Fla.
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Services will start running from 16 November and customers can begin booking travel today (25 October 2011) at
www.megabus.com.
