Was there anything specific suggesting it's an error or is that just your best guess? As you hint, there's absolutely nothing in writing that the £20 difference is something they're obliged to offer. Indeed LNER are perfectly free to offer zero 70 Min Advances for a period of a day if they so choose, same as how they'd be perfectly free to offer zero normal advances for some services.I notice a post upthread highlighted a ticket at a higher amount though I would suggest this is possibly an error
Is there some concrete evidence that the £20 difference is actually policy though, or just a tweet that says they are looking at it as part of the trial?While I appreciate it looks suspicious, I probably would give LNER the benefit of the doubt here, and the difference was intended to be £20 here
The reservation system that controls the quotas has a lot of weird behavior and it's very prone to TOCs making input mistakes with absolutely no protection for doing very bad things, let alone this
If they push through the incredibly unpopular timetable changes which will reduce frequency and capacity for regional journeys (e.g. Northallerton - Newcastle, Berwick-upon-Tweed - Newcastle, Grantham - Newark and so on) in exchange for a 15 minute cut in Edinburgh - London journey times I would expect these new higher prices will result in a huge rise in revenue. Shamefully so. Both policies are plainly Treasury-driven ('financial-first') and damn the economic and strategic dimensions.The trial is meant to be two years according to their publicity, though they could I suppose shout about it being successful (which by their criteria, namely increased income, it very likely will be) and roll it out sooner.
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