Melbourne SkyBus gone up again

Private equity has acquired Skybus. More price rises to come?
TPG have bought out OPT and foresight reduced holding making them 70% owner of Kinetic the parent company. Skybus is a small portion of that.
 
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TPG have bought out OPT and foresight reduced holding making them 70% owner of Kinetic the parent company. Skybus is a small portion of that.
It's funny, I was talking to a family of 4 the other day, leaving the airport, they were off to get Skybus to the CBD, I informed them of the current price to the CBD with Didi and saved them around 50%
It's amazing that people automatically feel a bus would be cheaper and don't even think about alternative options.
Skybus pricing really can't increase more than what it is now; it has become so expensive that much of the time it's only worth catching, financially, if you are a solo traveller (depending on your final destination).
 
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