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If the title of this article looks familiar, that may well be because it was the question raised in the editor's comment in September Buses. The launch of Roadjet, a two-vehicle scheduled inter-city coach operator in Germany, led us to ask whether its focus on luxury, using tri-axle double-deckers with 44 seats in 2+1 configuration, was a better way ahead than trying to cram as many passengers aboard as possible by selling tickets at rock bottom prices. Its fares were typically €10 higher than those of market leader Flixbus, but its founders were convinced that there is a market to be tapped from those prepared to pay for comfort and personal space. 'We travel a lot ourselves and saw that there was no coach equivalent of first class rail travel,' said one of them, Mujib Bazhwal. |