Big national fares shake up

vacman

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Big national fares shake up

« 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!


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swlines

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Re: Big national fares shake up

« Reply #1 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.... Grin


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Btline

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Re: Big national fares shake up

« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2008, 21:32:18 »

No more Firstminutefares! Cheesy

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? Angry


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swlines

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Re: Big national fares shake up

« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2008, 21:35:49 »

I doubt it - they are essentially just renames of already existing fares.


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grahame

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Re: Big national fares shake up

« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2008, 21:44:55 »

Quote from: Btline on March 04, 2008, 21:32:18

But- will they use it as an excuse to ... extend the "peak" hours? Angry

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 They've withdrawn all the off peak trains already so that a day return to London has already gone up from under 50 pounds (November 2006) to over 100 pounds (March 2008).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 Cheesy


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Ollie

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Re: Big national fares shake up

« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2008, 00:19:10 »

Did a page on this a while ago, believe Lee linked to it:

http://www.iworkforfgw.com/information/index.php?page=newfarestructure


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