I'd worked out my excess should be around £7.00 based on the ticket I held and the fact LNER» allow excess up to their TOC▸ specific walk up fares.
2/3rds of half the difference in fares, £10.50, is indeed £7.00
on the nose. Multiplying by a low precision decimal, say 0.66, and rounding down to the nearest 5p would total £6.90 (one possible explanation for the slight difference). I have not read the
FOI▸ documents (yet!) or refreshed my memory on the finer detail of excesses, but as there were no 1st class off-peak
day fares available the fare used for comparison was the 1st off-peak return.
I thought I'd try and work out what the excess would be if you said
"I want to return 1st class the next day". Initially, as that's a change of ticket type excess I thought the full difference of £14.00 would be payable. However, you had not availed yourself of 1st class on the outward leg so my thinking would be change of ticket type to std class off-peak then half the difference to 1st class - as follows:
(applying the railcard discount last as per the above)
Off-Peak Return £45.50 substract Off-Peak Day Return £42.00 = £3.50 (£2.30 with railcard)
Half the difference of (1st Off-Peak Return LNER only £63.00 subtract Std Off-Peak Return £45.50) = £8.75 (£5.80 with railcard)
Total £8.10That's what everyone else got, right? :-)