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OXFORD BUS COMPANY RUNNING CHRISTMAS DAY AIRPORT SERVICES
The Oxford Bus Company will operate a festive service to Gatwick and Heathrow on Christmas Day.
The well-established Christmas Airline service between Oxford and Heathrow and Gatwick will run throughout Christmas Day. It will run a special service to support passengers seeking to reach major airports for onward travel. Broadly coaches will run to Heathrow hourly and Gatwick every two hours through the main part of the day, with all services to Gatwick running via Heathrow.
It is the seventh consecutive year the Oxford Bus has operated the Airline service on Christmas Day. It comes after Oxford Bus Company invested £3.5M upgrading the Airline fleet earlier this year to provide the latest green technology and increased comfort for passengers.
Phil Southall, Oxford Bus Company Managing Director, said: "We have seen year-on-year growth in the number of people using the Airline Christmas Day service and it has become an important service to our passengers. Across the festive period as a whole we have devised a combination of timetables designed to ensure we continue to provide a first-class service to customers.”
The Oxford Bus Company will run normal timetables on Christmas Eve, with an early finish on some routes. Bus services and PickMeUp will not operate on Christmas Day. Special timetables will apply to all services on Boxing Day.
On December 27th and 30th City, Park & Ride and Airline services will operate to Saturday timetables. PickMeUp will run between 7am and 11pm, BROOKESBus will operate a Sunday holiday timetable and a special timetable will apply to the X90. On December 28th and 29th normal timetables will apply except for the BROOKESBus which will operate a Sunday holiday service and the X90 will continue a special timetable.
On New Year’s Eve all City, Park & Ride and Airline services will operate to a normal timetable, with an early finish. PickMeUp will operate a normal Tuesday service and BROOKESBus will continue a Sunday holiday service. The X90 will run a special hourly service between Oxford and London during the day and increased services at peak times in the evening and early hours.
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The Oxford Bus Company has kept the people of Oxford moving since 1881. Our services now span the width and breadth of Oxford and also take passengers to London, Heathrow and Gatwick Airports. In addition, our City Sightseeing Oxford hop-on, hop-off open topped bus company provides enjoyable tours of Oxford. And our sister companies, Thames Travel and Carousel Buses provide convenient travel services across South Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire respectively.
