Avanti plans to cut back trains running between London, Birmingham, Manchester and north Wales
Avanti West Coast is to cut the number of services it operates in December because of staff shortages, reducing weekend train frequency on one of Britain’s main intercity lines before Christmas.
Avanti was running as little as one train an hour on its main intercity routes in 2022, after it confessed it could no longer operate its schedule because of a shortage of drivers. Avanti has since improved and ministers reappointed the First Group-Trenitalia joint venture to run the service in the long term, after two short-term extensions. But it has still not got back the goodwill of drivers, whose refusal to work rest days has left it short-staffed.
The firm has also recently refurbished its Pendolino fleet, adding more seats overall, and said it was still confident of having enough capacity, the Guardian has reported.
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