From this Sunday 6 March, First Bus will be introducing a new range of Flexi tickets alongside fare changes on our Greater Manchester services.

The new Flexi tickets are designed to encourage more people to use the bus as travel behaviour adapts following the pandemic. They claim to have responded to a change in work & leisure patterns and new habits in commuting & hybrid working with the creation of a 3-day ticket valid over five days and a 5-day ticket which can be used for trips over eight days.

The fare changes on the services are the first to be made since January 2020 and include the reduction or freezing of prices for single tickets. Single fares for the longest journeys will reduce to £4 for an adult and £2 for children, a decrease of 11 per cent, with the cost of all other Singles held at the current price.

Price increases for Week tickets will rise in line with the rate of inflation while Day tickets will rise by 50p for adults and 25p for children with the family ticket unchanged at £10. All price changes will also apply to mTickets bought on the First Bus App.

Where prices are increasing, they say they have worked to limit these changes for customers as much as possible so we can balance the challenge of maintaining a sustainable network as we build back passengers to pre-pandemic levels.

Posters explaining the fares and new Flexi tickets will begin appearing on buses from this week.

Details can also be found by visiting the First Manchester website https://www.firstbus.co.uk/greater-manchester/news-and-service-updates/planned-changes/fare-changes-6th-march