Fair enough. I misunderstood a previous post. Edit: I didn't. It seems they must have been wrong or we're speculating
Is there any change to the planned date of 19th April?
It hasn’t started yet
Depends on the flow. Some are Advances (shown on BRFares with a price of £9998.00), others are discounts on walk-up fares.
I notice the fare setter in your example is Cross Country, so the price is probably correct
And lo and behold...
That's a central micro-site, I believe.
So absolutely no chance of a go-anywhere ticket then for a low maximum fare, like the German promotion.
Correct, absolutely no chance.
There is a real need to focus this promotion on flows where there is a) capacity and b) it does not cannibalise existing revenue.
The Book with Confidence scheme still applies for now, enabling you to get a voucher for your Advance if you choose to "refund" it no later than 6pm the night before.I'm going to be annoyed if after buying advance tickets the same journey suddenly appears in this sale for a quid. I bet I won't get a partial refund despite publicity saying the earlier you book the cheaper the ticket.
I tend to agree that some TOCs and routes don't need it but if they're not included expect some bad publicity from those areas. My local routes with EMR cannot cope now. If they suddenly offer seats for a quid some people may need to sit on the roof.
Personally I would like to see the 1st class 14 day all line rover on sale for £100. That would sort me out when I take annual leave in May.
It appears that the sale tickets will all have a booking deadline before the day of travel.
I guess that an Off Peak product was a requirement in order for Thameslink and Great Northern to publicise the sales. They're among the last places not to have Advances available.
Northern allocate so many tickets that it's very unlikely for them to sell out. It's usually around 100 even for a two car train. They have started to make some changes e.g. the Hope Valley has had some trains blocked completely because of the number of people being left behind. They also don't appear to pull them on trains which are short formed, despite other operators doing that as soon as they hear which diagrams will be short early in the morning.
Whilst Thameslink & Great Northern are indeed using the Off-Peak sale tickets, Thameslink have also been offering Advances on some of their flows.
Their choice of flows is rather bizarre at the moment. I assume it's just an intermediate step to wider enabling of Advances.
Do you have a link? I trumies guess work but it didn't work
