User:Alexlatham96/Megabus (North America)
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Megabus, branded as megabus.com, is an intercity bus service of Coach USA/Coach Canada and DATTCO (under contract) operating in the eastern, southern, midwestern, and western United States and in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
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Parent | Coach USA/Coach Canada (some buses are owned by DATTCO) |
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Founded | 2006; 18 years ago (2006) |
Headquarters |
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Service area | United States Canada |
Service type | Intercity coach service |
Routes | 30 |
Stops | See list below |
Destinations | See list below |
Hubs | |
Fleet | Motor Coach Industries single-deck coaches Van Hool single- and double-deck coaches |
Operator | Coach USA subsidiaries:
Non-Stagecoach companies:
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Chief executive | Linda Burtwistle |
Website | us ca |
Some tickets, if purchased well in advance, are priced at $1, in addition to an online booking fee of $2 per transaction. Megabus follows the yield management model, typically used by airlines, where the lowest fares are offered to those who book early. Only one or two seats are sold for $1 per schedule, so the less popular schedules tend to be less expensive. Bus stops may be in public streets, bus stations, outside railroad stations or transportation centers in major cities, or on college campuses or at shopping centers in other cities.
Upon purchase of a ticket, passengers are given a reservation number to be shown to the bus operator upon boarding. In the United States, tickets are not available from the bus operator. In Canada, owing to franchise regulations, tickets are sold at stops but may be more expensive than those purchased online.
Reservations can be changed for a fee of $3-$7.50.[1]