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NATIONAL EXPRESS has increased its links with the private sector by launching a major marketing deal with Magic Bus, the European youth travel organisation.
From February 22, National Express tickets will be available from Magic Bus offices throughout Britain, Ireland, Europe, and the United States. Magic Bus tickets will be availa ble from National's 3,000 outlets.
In addition, the two operators have merged their London/Birmingham/Holyhead/Dublin services, and in future the coaches will stop only at Birmingham on the daily journey to Holyhead ferry terminal. An alternative National service will carry passengers between London, Chester, and the North Wales resorts.
The through return fare from London to Dublin is £27, and onward bookings in Ireland are available through Coras lompair Eireann's Expressway network. CIE now provides a feeder coach from Dun Laoghaire ferry terminal to Dublin Busaras.
Magic Bus is to run all of its E u ro pea n services through National's Victoria Coach Station, in London.
A National Express spokesman pointed out that holders of international student identity cards already qualify for halfprice return journeys on all National Express routes, except the Rapide services from London to Exeter and Plymouth, which are run jointly with Trathen's of Yelverton.