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Title: Big national fares shake up Post by: vacman on March 04, 2008, 18:17:12 From May, all advance purchase tickets (looks like every TOC, not just FGW) will become known as "Advance" tickets,
from September Standard day tickets will become "Anytime day single/return", standard open will become "anytime single/return", savers/cheap days etc will become "off peak/off peak day" singles/returns, and special offers such as the Devon evening fare etc will become "super off peak", At last some simplification of fares!!!! and only one advance fare! Title: Re: Big national fares shake up Post by: swlines on March 04, 2008, 18:22:45 Only one advance fare? Not in particular as there will be differentiating levels of AP, ie, A, B, C. Then First class advance.... ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Big national fares shake up Post by: Btline on March 04, 2008, 21:32:18 No more Firstminutefares! :D
But, bring it on- at last some tickets whose description helps you decide which services they can/can't be used on! But- will they use it as an excuse to bump up fares, reduce the number of cheaper tickets, or extend the "peak" hours? >:( Title: Re: Big national fares shake up Post by: swlines on March 04, 2008, 21:35:49 I doubt it - they are essentially just renames of already existing fares.
Title: Re: Big national fares shake up Post by: grahame on March 04, 2008, 21:44:55 But- will they use it as an excuse to ... extend the "peak" hours? >:( Not possible - at least at Melksham. They've withdrawn all the off peak trains already so that a day return to London has already gone up from under 50 pounds (November 2006) to over 100 pounds (March 2008). If they were to provide a train at - say - around a quarter past 9 that gave a good connection as Westbury for London, they could get an awful lot of 50 pound fares for just a tiny bit of extra mileage :D Title: Re: Big national fares shake up Post by: Ollie on March 05, 2008, 00:19:10 Did a page on this a while ago, believe Lee linked to it:
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