Trainbike46
Established Member
Clearly revenue is really importantPassenger numbers isn’t the relevant metric when DfT and the Treasury look at it. Revenue is king, and that’s still well below pre-pandemic levels. I wouldn’t be surprised to see fares tweaked to extract more revenue from off-peak passengers.
But for capacity needed, what matters is how many passenger kms are being travelled.
And as I pointed out, specifically where the 379s would be useful (london commuter land), passenger numbers lag behind