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Title: Most Expensive CDR
Post by: ReWind on September 29, 2011, 10:01:13
Looking through a couple of fares to Dover for a journey I plan to make early next year, I stumbled across a very ( in my opinion ) expensive and odd fare!

Hereford - Dover Priory CDR route Evesham ^66.70

Anyone else think they can find a more expensive CDR out there?

How many people travel off peak to Dover and back in a day from Hereford I don't know!!!!


Title: Re: Most Expensive CDR
Post by: Tim on September 29, 2011, 10:56:25
I don;t know about the most expensive CDR, but the most stupid are those for local journeys to airports (ie, Keynsham to Bristol airport)  where the CDR is the only return.  I know the distance is too short for a period return, but you would have thought that an airport from which people will fly away for a week or two might be a sensible exception.


Title: Re: Most Expensive CDR
Post by: grahame on September 29, 2011, 10:56:57
222 miles each way ... 15p / mile.  Oddly long distance for a day return, but the fare seems to be within the bounds that I might have expected.  In fact it compares favourably to 22p / mile for super off peak returns from Wiltshire to London.


Title: Re: Most Expensive CDR
Post by: autotank on September 29, 2011, 12:07:07
Sounds like a bargain - would that be valid on HS1?


Title: Re: Most Expensive CDR
Post by: JayMac on September 29, 2011, 18:19:23
Don't see why not. The routeing permission doesn't exclude HS1. But then it would be difficult to fit +LONDON EVESHAM NOT VALID ON HS1 on the ticket!



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