Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

National Express Group PLC
31 March 2000



                         National Express Group PLC

The Company has been informed that on 29 March 2000, the Trustee of the National
Express Group Qualifying Employee Share Trust transferred 550 ordinary shares at
£4.80 and 60 ordinary shares at £4.27, to satisfy the exercise of options under
the National Express Group 1992 Savings Related Share Scheme.  Following this
transfer, the National Express Group Qualifying Employee Share Trust holds a
total interest in the Company of 1,039,724 shares.  As all employees of the
Company  and its subsidiaries are potential beneficiaries under the Trust on an
equal basis, the executive directors of the Company, Messrs P White, R H Brown,
R O'Toole and W Rollason, in their capacity as members of the class of potential
beneficiaries under the Trust, are deemed to have an interest in these shares
pursuant to the Companies Act 1985.