All hail the Flixbus, a religious successor to the Megabus, which came to steal its predecessor’s lunch with a mix of Brat-green aesthetic and meme-tastic social media presence.
Founded in Munich in 2011, the finances bus service started offering journeys from Europe to our little island in 2016. It was solely as lately as 2021 that Flixbus launched routes inside the UK, linking up the likes of London, Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds. And now it is increasing even additional, having introduced eight new locations and a bunch of new connections to have fun its fifth birthday.
To actually get the celebrations going, Flix is providing tickets for lower than a fiver between April 13 and June 30. As Vengaboys didn’t fairly say: ‘The Flixbus is coming / And everybody’s leaping.’
The new routes will come into play in April, bringing the grand whole of Flixbus locations to greater than 100. It’s excellent news for the fortunate folks of Doncaster, Blackpool, Halifax, Huddersfield and Milton Keynes, all of whom are actually provided an opportunity to trip the Flix to and from house. In addition to this, there’ll be day by day Flixbus companies between York, Heathrow and central London.
There’ll be new connections between Bristol Airport and Plymouth, Taunton, Cheltenham and Exeter, whereas travellers will even be capable of hop on the Flixbus from Leicester and Nottingham to each Plymouth and Bristol. And that’s not all! The huge inexperienced bus can be providing routes between Manchester Airport and Newcastle, Sunderland, Middlesbrough, Leeds, Huddersfield and Bradford.
East Anglia will get in on the motion, too, with new companies between Norwich and Heathrow, in addition to to Birmingham and Plymouth. Colchester, Chelmsford and Ipswich are additionally becoming a member of the community and there’ll elevated direct connections to London and Oxford from Birmingham Airport.
In reality, airport transfers ought to get a bit simpler throughout the board, as new companies are set to launch between Brighton and Heathrow, with direct connections from Gatwick to Leeds and Sheffield.
FlixBus UK PR lead Sarah Bartlett stated: ‘Five years ago, we set out with a bold ambition to revolutionise coach travel, and with a network of over 100 destinations, it’s clear passengers have fallen in love with FlixBus! We’re providing tickets for lower than a fiver to deliver much more pleasure to travellers utilizing our inexpensive, comfy and dependable companies.’
It’s a pair of years since we charted the decline of the Megabus and the rise of Flixbus, which provides barely dearer journeys. Even the promotional costs for the latter’s fifth birthday, which begin at £4.49, are a far cry from the previous’s budget-friendly £1 providing.
Back then, FlixBus’s director of model & artistic informed us: ‘It would seem unlikely that a bus could build and sustain a place in pop culture. But against the odds, Flix has created one.’
Here’s the complete listing of expanded UK Flixbus companies in 2026:
New locations
- Doncaster
- Blackpool
- Halifax
- Huddersfield
- Milton Keynes
- Colchester
- Chelmsford
- Ipswich
New connections
- Brighton to Heathrow Airport
- Leeds to Gatwick Airport & Manchester Airport
- Sheffield to Gatwick Airport
- Newcastle upon Tyne to Manchester Airport
- Sunderland to Manchester Airport
- Middlesbrough to Manchester Airport
- Bradford to Manchester Airport
- Norwich to Heathrow, Birmingham and Plymouth
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