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Intercity Bus Lines Pivot to Meet Demand

March 26, 2019

America’s intercity bus industry is currently changing course, pivoting away from the frenetic years between 2006 and 2013, when BoltBus, Greyhound Express, and megabus.com bullishly expanded service between the downtowns of major cities.

As we show in “New Directions: 2019 Outlook for the Intercity Bus Industry,” the latest installment of DePaul University’s annual series on motorcoach travel, new brands like Flixbus and OurBus are accelerating new trends. These services put greater emphasis on suburban stops away from downtowns, and they are rolling out niche routes in which schedules are limited to particular days of the week. Borrowing a page from the playbook of Allegiant Airlines and Sun Country Airlines, they adhere to the belief that their services can prosper without schedule dominance and seven-days-a-week operations.

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