Title: Heathrow - Reading RailAir tickets... Post by: inspector_blakey on December 14, 2009, 20:31:15 Is there anywhere at Heathrow where I can buy a through rail ticket, including the RailAir bus to Reading? Or do I have to purchase the RailAir ticket on the bus then buy a ticket for the rest of the journey at Reading?
Title: Re: Heathrow - Reading RailAir tickets... Post by: JayMac on December 14, 2009, 20:53:55 You able to access this website from across the pond?
http://www.railair.com e-ticket printing facility available. Then mebbes just collect your rail tickets from a TVM at Reading? Title: Re: Heathrow - Reading RailAir tickets... Post by: ChrisB on December 15, 2009, 13:36:41 I think the enquirer wants to pick up a combined ticket, like you can if travelling to Heathrow via Rail & RailAir....
Title: Re: Heathrow - Reading RailAir tickets... Post by: inspector_blakey on December 15, 2009, 15:29:10 That was originally true, but having checked out bignosemac's advice it's actually a pound cheaper to purchase a RailAir eticket then collect tickets for the remainder of the journey at Reading.
Title: Re: Heathrow - Reading RailAir tickets... Post by: ChrisB on December 15, 2009, 15:39:53 That's rather stupid....you'd expect the combined to be cheaper or at least the same price!
Title: Re: Heathrow - Reading RailAir tickets... Post by: bemmy on December 15, 2009, 15:55:08 AIUI combined tickets are the price of 2 separate tickets, ie the same as if they weren't bought together. The ^1 saving inspector_blakey refers to is for booking the coach ticket online. As far as I can tell, Railair fares are a different system to train fares and there are no cheap advance tickets available.
Title: Re: Heathrow - Reading RailAir tickets... Post by: ChrisB on December 15, 2009, 15:57:09 Like station+bus tickets, combined tickets usually give a small discount - that was what I was referring to.
Title: Re: Heathrow - Reading RailAir tickets... Post by: inspector_blakey on December 17, 2009, 15:18:12 RailAir is unusual because it's a flat GBP15.00 add-on to any fare to Reading, so since RailAir gives you a GBP1.00 discount for "etickets" booked online that saves you a quid.
I've just discovered that it's actually a few pounds cheaper for the journey I'm making to take Heathrow Connect into Paddington then catch my train there rather than Reading (with big thanks to FGW for halving the fare for a PAD - WTL off-peak single!). Title: Re: Heathrow - Reading RailAir tickets... Post by: JayMac on December 17, 2009, 16:09:05 Enjoy that 'half the return price' off peak single to Whitland. In January both the off peak and super off peak singles rise by around 15%. The returns stay almost the same, excepting that the super off peak return drops by 0.4% as it is a regulated fare. It thus becomes a whopping 30p cheaper.
Title: Re: Heathrow - Reading RailAir tickets... Post by: moonrakerz on December 18, 2009, 09:56:43 This thread reminds me of a piece of lunacy that I encountered many years ago when travelling regularly from Edinburgh to Eastleigh whilst serving in the Royal Navy.
My journey involved using the rail-air coach from Heathrow to Woking. The coach operator would not accept a coach travel warrant as they claimed they were operating a "rail service". BR would not accept a rail travel warrant as it was patently not a train. The Navy paid us a mileage allowance in the end !!!! Title: Re: Heathrow - Reading RailAir tickets... Post by: ChrisB on December 18, 2009, 09:59:25 BR were in error - it is part of the timetable and thus a warrant could cover the coach journey..
Title: Re: Heathrow - Reading RailAir tickets... Post by: TheLastMinute on December 30, 2009, 23:59:44 Thank goodness we don't have those "that ticket is only valid on another company" problems now, eh?
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