 First TPE Advance tickets
On 15 Jul, 12:22, Roland Perry <rol...@perry.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <oqy0eta4px1r$.1k3rxa6c5m9vy....@40tude.net>, at 10:59:14 on
> Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Chris Tolley <cj...@supanet.com> remarked:
>
> >Some months ago, I was listening to someone from the new XC operator,
> >being quizzed on "You and Yours" (R4) or something similar about the way
> >they set their fares. At one point in the discussion, it emerged that
> >if they can sell AP fares on their trains that are tied to specific
> >seats on specific journeys, then they keep all the revenue. If they sell
> >more flexible tickets, then they get less than 100% of the revenue,
> >perhaps less pounds and pee than from the AP ticket. Suppose that to be
> >true, then turn it on its head - if will follow that one cannot have AP
> >tickets unless there is a through service between those points, which
> >would answer both of your questions.
>
> The final point cannot be true, as I've been issued an AP ticket where
> the legs were in turn: MML, CT, VXC, FGW. I believe it was "XC and
> connections", even though the longest leg by far was on FGW.
>
> With slightly different timing (and availability) but presumably the
> same price, a more sensible ticket between the same end points would
> however have been issued as almost entirely XC with just a small hop on
> CT.
>
> Nottingham/Leicester/Bham/Reading/Plymouth was the ticket I was sold.
> Nottingham/Derby/Plymouth is the other possibility.
> --
> Roland Perry
Quite. Virgin have given me some very convoluted multi-operator
advance ticket journeys in the past (once suggesting Liverpool-
Bournemouth via Euston and Waterloo), and will sell me a ticket to
Mossley Hill.
It can't be good that one cannot get advance tickets between two of
England's most important cities. |