DfT monitors XC as training backlog reduced

David Stubbings News Editorrail@bauermedia.co.uk

MANAGERS at CrossCountry say they have achieved the aims of its three-month reduced timetable. Services were cut on certain routes between August 10 and November 9 2024, to help the operator tackle a backlog of driver training that had affected reliability. The move had been signed off by then-Transport Secretary Louise Haigh, although she added a footnote that CrossCountry’s performance was not acceptable and that the reduced timetable was not a satisfactory response. Haigh also said the operator must agree a Remedial Plan to improve services. Speaking in mid-December, senior managers at CrossCountry were optimistic that they were achieving the aims of both the timetable and the remedial plan. “We have delivered everything we said we would,” said XC Stakeholder Manager Richard Gibson. “We have exceeded driver training hours. We…

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