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Unread 08-11-2012, 03:28   #26
briank
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Crunching the numbers further.

According to the Aecom report, Irish Rail carry 2,434,000 passengers on the Cork route.

So that works out at 6,668 passengers per day.

GoBe/Aircoach (excluding BE) have a regular scheduled [1] capacity of 3,250 passengers per day.

That means Irish Rail now face new competition that has the capacity to steal almost 50% of Irish Rails passengers on this route. This is capacity that simply didn't exist this time last year.

There is certainly not a fraction of Irish Rails capacity as Mark claimed, this is a very large and dangerous new competitor to IR.

[1] Again regular capacity, nothing stopping them using extra buses or increasing capacity significantly by using double deckers.
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