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Booking order
Last updated 22nd January 2012.

Seat allocation from September 2012:
Seats on the bus for the school year starting in September 2012 will be allocated from 1st April onwards. New applications for a seat before that date will be placed on a waiting list.

To join the waiting list please send an e-mail to bus@ruftytufty.co.uk with the following details:

• Your name and address.
• Your telephone number.
• Passenger's name.
• Where your son/daughter will catch the bus from.
• Which school they are going to, and what year group they are going into (e.g. Y7).
• The type of ticket required - Annual/term, full time, AM/PM, etc.

Current passengers have priority booking until 1st April, but if their seats are not renewed by that date then the seats will be made available to new applicants. Existing passengers may still apply to renew after 1st April if they wish, but there is no longer a guarantee that their seat will still be available.

After seats have been allocated on 1st April to current passengers who have renewed, and to those on the waiting list, any remaining seats will be made available on a first come first served basis for applications for full time annual tickets, or other applications as at my discretion.

On 1st April seats will be allocated in the following order:

For passengers boarding the bus between Nettlebed and Headington Quarry (not Headington School)

1. Existing passengers whose parents have sent in a signed renewal form and made a commitment to retaining their seat for the new school year. (However, the across Oxford seats are not guaranteed; please see the note at the foot of this page. 
    
2. Siblings (of existing passengers) on the waiting list. If there aren't enough places for all the siblings applying then the seat allocation will favour parents who helped subsidise the bus in the first year, who are purchasing annual full time tickets, families who have been on the bus the longest, and families with least alternative choices.
    
3. New applicants on the waiting list for full time annual tickets who live between Nettlebed and Headington Quarry. They will be allocated tickets in the order they apply (i.e. first come, first served).  
   
   
4. Any other applications from families living between Nettlebed and Headington Quarry. These will be processed generally in the order received.

For passengers boarding the bus at Headington School (across Oxford tickets):

These seats are NOT guaranteed year on year.

These tickets offer travel from Headington or Rye St Antony schools across the city to Oxford High School (and back again in the afternoon). They are very popular and are over subscribed.

The bus will be full when it reaches Headington school. A seat only becomes available for an OHS student if a passenger gets off at Headington or Rye schools. We may have this nicely balanced one year, but then the next year we could have less Headington/Rye children and therefore can not pick up the same number of OHS girls in Headington. It will mean some current passengers will have to come off the bus.

First I will see if there is a natural loss by non-renewal. After which I will ask for volunteers to leave the bus. Failing those efforts, passengers will need to come off the bus in the order of last on, first off.

 

DEPOSIT AND PAYMENT:

When I have received a signed application form with payment details and have reserved a seat for you it means we have a joint commitment, and on that basis I will be turning other passengers away who want your seat. I don't take a deposit as such, but if you subsequently withdraw your application and I can not sell on your seat then I will deduct from your payment card a sum of £25 PER CHILD as an admin fee.

Full payment for the bus ticket will be deducted from your payment card in the first week or two of July. Your ticket, invoice, payment slip, timetable and covering letter will be posted to you when your payment is taken.

Any withdrawal after I have taken payment in July and before term starts incurs a £25 admin charge per child. For refunds after term starts, please see the policy and tables on the Refunds tab.