Commenced operation 21 April 1997 Operator Swebus Express AB CEO Joakim Palmkvist (2006–) Service area Sweden Service type Intercity bus service | Destinations 150 Website www.swebus.se Parent organization Nobina Date of operation 21 April 1997 | |
Headquarters Solna Municipality, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden Profiles | ||
Swebus Express AB, trading as just Swebus since 2009, is one of Sweden's largest long distance coach operators. Swebus has a "seat guarantee" for journeys bought at least 24 hours before departure, meaning that they promise to bring in the necessary extra coaches in case of extensive booking on a departure.
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Swebus Express' lines are focused in southern Sweden, with Uppsala and Stockholm in the north, Norrköping, Linköping and Kalmar on the east coast. Malmö and Blekinge in the south and Helsingborg, Halmstad and Gothenburg on the west coast and Jönköping in the middle, and some lines extended to Oslo in Norway and Copenhagen in Denmark. They also offer tickets to Germany via Eurolines and the Czech Republic via Bohemian Lines.
History
After Swebus had been acquired by Stagecoach in October 1996, Swebus' long distance routes became branded as Swebus Express from 21 April 1997. In the beginning they had the same livery as Stagecoach, just with a different logo. A large marketing campaign between April and August, which included free return tickets, led to some routes quintuple their passenger rates in the period. This again led to Swebus ordering 65 14.7-metres coaches to be bodied by Van Hool on Volvo B10M-70B chassis and two Neoplan Megaliner.
At 1 January 1999 the long-distance coach market in Sweden was deregulated, which led to several new Swebus Express routes, including Stockholm - Uppsala - Gävle, Växjö - Jönköping, Västervik - Jönköping, Växjö - Malmö and Kalmar - Karlskrona - Hässleholm - Helsingborg from 25 January 1999.
After Swebus was sold to Concordia Bus in late 1999, the orange stripe from the Stagecoach livery was removed and later the blue and red stripes were softened at the "Z" section. In 2001/2002, Swebus Express was made into a separate operating company, named Swebus Express AB.
When Swebus AB was renamed Nobina Sverige AB in December 2009, Swebus Express started trading as just Swebus, and also got a new logo and an all-white livery.
Current routes (Updated May 2015)
Some routes are season-specific.
Former routes
This list is not complete.