I feel I'm justified in complaining when a product I regularly use sees a large price increase. Particularly when the company offering that product had made a commitment just 4 months previously to increase its unregulated products by the same amount as its regulated ones. Of course FGW▸ made no claim about how long that commitment would be in place, but when they are positively spinning unregulated fares price increases linked to a formula that is only applied once every twelve months, then I feel it is disingenuous to ignore that commitment 4 months later simply because they can.
I think you're being just as disingeneous. Nowhere did FGW state that the rises on unregulated fares were being tied to
RPI▸ +1% for any more than that one fare round in January.
Just because the regulated fares only go up once a year (but they don't have to - the
TOCs▸ *choose* to use the whole rise in January, but *could* easily spread it out across the other two rise dates if they wished), doesn't say anywhere that unregulated fares only go up once a year. But that's the only indication you've seen. If it isn't show me please?