ALSA (bus company)

Grupo ALSA ( Automóviles Luarca, SA ) is based in Spain bus company based in Madrid, part of the UK's National Express Group.

History

The company was founded in 1923 as a limited company in Luarca, but goes back to the older companies El Luarca car Móviles de Viajeros that existed since 1890, back.

In the 1930s and 1940s, the company offered mainly local connections in Asturias and relied vehicles of NAG, Sour, GMC, Renault and Hispano -Suiza one. In the following years ALSA expanded into other regions of Spain. In 1964 the first international line of Oviedo Paris was taken to Brussels in operation.

2005 ALSA was bought by the National Express Group for around 381 million euros. ALSA had in the year prior to the merger (2004) sales of 318.5 million euros, 3,100 employees, 1,400 vehicles and 93 million passengers. In the same year the sales of National Express EUR 3.78 billion at 40,000 employees, 19,500 vehicles and approximately one billion travelers was.

ALSA today

In 2010, the company had approximately 6,700 employees and 2,400 buses, 206 million passengers transported annually about 306 million kilometers. Sales amounted to 613 million euros.

The company operates in addition to urban, regional and national lines and long-distance bus to North Africa, Portugal, France, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany and is a member of the Transport Association Euro Lines.