In addition to Flixbus, BlaBlaBus will now also offer cheap bus rides via Antwerp. The French transport company has connections from Amsterdam to Paris and London with a stopover in Antwerp.

Nine out of ten routes stop in Brussels. Unlike the FlixBus and Eurolines competitors (which are taken over by FlixBus), which stop at Brussels North Station, the BlaBlaBuses stop at the South Station. "The North Station does not have such a good reputation, and Ouibus also already stopped at the South Station," the explanation says.

Ouibus was a loss-making branch of the French railway company SNCF. It was acquired in November last year by French car-sharing platform BlaBlaCar. This is now gradually introducing the BlaBlaBus brand. The first ride of BlaBlaBus in Belgium is one from Amsterdam to Brussels. The bus then continues to Paris.