National Express contract prompts £5m investment

A COVENTRY-based bus and coach operator has created 12 new jobs and invested £5m following a contract win with Birmingham-based National Express.

Travel de Courcey has won an undisclosed contract to operate 14 National Express inter-city coach services from Birmingham.

The deal is the biggest single contract in the history of Travel de Courcey and has seen it spend £5m on 14 new coaches and assets.

It will service existing routes between Birmingham and London with links to Manchester, Stratford-upon-Avon, Wolverhampton and Coventry.

This latest contract win is in addition to the firm’s existing contract to operate services from Coventry to Blackpool and Skegness.

Managing director Mike de Courcey said: “We are delighted to have won such an important contract to supply coaches to National Express for transporting passengers between the Midlands, Manchester and London.

“In both financial and operational terms, it is the biggest single contract that Travel de Courcey has been successful in winning since the company was founded in 1978.

“It represents a new era for Travel de Courcey and involves us opening a new depot in Birmingham which we hope to be able to develop in the future.”