Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

National Express Group PLC
16 May 2000


National Express Group PLC ('the Company')

The Company has been informed that on 12 May 2000, the Trustee of the National
Express Group Qualifying Employee Share Trust transferred 547 ordinary shares
at £2.57, 1,052 ordinary shares at £4.27 and 129 ordinary shares at £4.80 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
1,340,297 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.