Travel to and from Aberdeenshire and Moray: National Express suspends all coaches

National Express has announced it will completely suspend its services with from midnight on Sunday.

Its coaches will remain off the road throughout the whole of February at the least.

Chris Hardy, the company's managing director, said: "We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs.

"However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this."

The company states that all journeys before Monday will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.

Customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered refunds.

Mr Hardy added: "As the vaccination programme is rolled out and Government guidance changes, we will regularly review when we can restart services.

"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put in place a provisional restart date of Monday, March 1 – although that's obviously subject to change.

"The whole team at National Express worked incredibly hard throughout 2020 and I want to thank them for their efforts as we pause our services.

"We will now make sure we are ready to get back behind the wheel as soon as the nation needs us again."

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