Purple people go Yellow (l-r) Festival Makers Ken Hawkins, Sylvia Kirkpatrick, Richard French, Ali Perrins from the council, Terri Hignett and Fiona Harwood from Yellow Buses and Festival Makers Susan Whitton and William Philpot.
Yellow Buses is once again flying high as a partner of the Bournemouth Air Festival – and is providing free bus passes for the festival makers.
All 20 volunteers, who will be wearing distinctive purple tops and ‘festival maker’ straw hats, will be hand to help the tens of thousands of visitors.
The festival runs from Thursday 31 August to Sunday 3 September and includes action in the air and around the town.
The RAF Red Arrows, The Tigers Freefall Parachute Display Team and The Red Devils are among those listed to be flying.
A Lancaster bomber is due to attend, as is the Bristol Blenheim which will be making its debut at the show and is the only one still flying.
The festival programme is on sale through various outlets in the town – including the Tourist Information Centre – and vendors will be selling them over the four days.
Inside the programme is a unique code that can be used to view live online updates about which aircraft and flying and at what time.
With Bournemouth likely to be heaving with traffic, using the bus is one of the easiest and quickest ways to get around
Fiona Harwood from Yellow Buses said: “The air festival has grown into a huge event and for it to work the town needs to come together.
“Being the main bus operator in Bournemouth means we have an important part to play and getting the festival makers to the right place will be crucial.
“It is quite a logistical challenge to operate services during events like this and we will be transporting many thousands of people around.”
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About Yellow Buses
Yellow Buses operates a fleet of 131 buses and 18 coaches with a staff of 430. It carries just under 15m passengers a year with its vehicles operating nearly five million miles across the Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch and East Dorset area. Yellow Buses is part of RATP Group, the world’s fifth largest public transport provider.
RATP Dev
RATP Dev is a RATP group subsidiary set up in 2002 to export the Group’s operation and maintenance knowhow outside the historic network operated by RATP in the Paris region. RATP Dev now operates in 15 countries on four continents (United Kingdom, France, Italy, Switzerland, Algeria, Morocco, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, India, China, South Korea, the Philippines, the USA and Brazil). In 2015 RATP Dev generated revenue of more than 1.1 billion euros.
RATP group
With 14 million passengers every day worldwide, RATP group is the fifth largest urban transport operator in the world. The multimodal network operated by RATP in the Paris region, with its 14 metro lines (including two driverless lines), two regional express network (RER) lines, seven tramway lines, 350 bus lines and shuttle services catering to the region’s two international airports, is the largest of its kind in the world to be managed by a single company.
RATP group can devise, design and implement infrastructure development projects, operate and maintain networks irrespective of the transport mode (metro, regional train, tramway and bus) and develop innovative services to promote mobility such as passenger information, electronic ticketing, pricing and customer marketing. The automation of Paris metro’s Line 1, which was completed at the end of 2012, is a world first and once again has demonstrated the ability of RATP group to complete particularly complex projects.
RATP group has a workforce of nearly 60,000 worldwide and in 2015 generated revenue of 5,556 million euros.
