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Title: Gatwick Express Fares Post by: Brucey on May 12, 2011, 16:19:21 Can I just double check something with anyone "in the know".
A fare routed "+ANY PERMITTED" from anywhere to Gatwick Airport is valid on the Gatwick Express? And only tickets routed "NOT GATWICK EXPRESS" are not valid? Or does it work like HS1 and require you to hold a special type of ticket? If the first one is true, I've found a way of making Gatwick Express tickets slightly cheaper. Title: Re: Gatwick Express Fares Post by: JayMac on May 12, 2011, 16:39:44 Can't see why not. Gatwick Express is no longer a TOC in it's own right, merely a trading style of Southern.
Title: Re: Gatwick Express Fares Post by: ChrisB on May 12, 2011, 17:43:19 So - please explain how to make it cheaper?
Title: Re: Gatwick Express Fares Post by: inspector_blakey on May 12, 2011, 21:52:01 Educated guess, but probably by buying a +ANY PERMITTED ticket to GTW from somewhere just outside London which ends up cheaper than a full fare VIC-GTW?
Title: Re: Gatwick Express Fares Post by: jester on May 13, 2011, 00:00:32 ;D Yeeeesss he he, spotted that a while back and have used it!
Title: Re: Gatwick Express Fares Post by: willc on May 13, 2011, 00:11:48 Can't see why not. Gatwick Express is no longer a TOC in it's own right, merely a trading style of Southern. But Southern still carry on as though it still is an independent outfit in certain respects - even if many 'GE' services now run to and from Brighton. Barry Doe wrote about the silliness of the situation in the last but one issue of Rail. Title: Re: Gatwick Express Fares Post by: Brucey on May 13, 2011, 07:43:41 Bromley South was the one I spotted, however I'm sure there are alternatives which are even cheaper.
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