Lothian Buses

We operate over 50 bus services in Edinburgh and the surrounding areas of Midlothian and East Lothian. The company also operates 10 Night Bus routes giving 24-hour service provision to many parts of the city.

The Lothian Buses name has been used since January 2000. The company remains publicly owned - the major shareholder being The City Of Edinburgh Council.

Since then, we have invested heavily in the Lothian Buses fleet and now have over 600 low floor easy access buses with a fleet average bus age of just 4.9 years. Lothian Buses now has one of the youngest fleets of buses in the country.

Additionally, we have over 30 open-top buses for our Edinburgh Bus Tours services and 15 specially branded new low floor AIRLINK vehicles for use on the dedicated Airport Express service.

In 2009 we carried over 107 million passengers.

The Company employs over 2000 employees, 1500 of whom are drivers.

Facts and Figures

Annual Report 2010 Download Here

Media Enquiries

For all media enquiries, please contact the
Lothian Buses Press Office team at 3x1 Public Relations

Press Contact:
Sarah Howden
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Tel: 0131 225 7700
Mobile: 07815 903 097