Biggest Price Ratio of 1st to 2nd class season ticket

[furryfeet]

e.g. Arriva XC seem to now use a multiplier of two for the price of their 1st class seasons compared to 2nd class.

e.g. Tamworth to York adult 7 days
Not Birmingham Any Permitted
2nd 183.50 224.70
1st 366.90 449.40

Anyone else know of anything comparable, or even worse ?

(Seems like these idots are determined to price people of the railways ! )

 

[MCR247]

XC do that in first class for services run with 170s! (in case you didn't know, it definitely not worth it)

 

[Mojo]

We've had this before: http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=25849

Birmingham Int to Norwich FOR over 4 times the price of a SOR, and a few more in there!

 

[Ivo]

It's not quite the same, but look at this:

Southend Victoria to Prittlewell (a distance of 55ch), SDR £2.50; FDR £5.70

Bad enough? Then throw this in:

First Class Upgrade, not valid before 0845 from SOV, £10.00

Buy an SDR and then upgrade and you're paying nearly five times as much! Not to mention the ridiculous distance (even a return is less than 1½mi).

 

[furryfeet]

We've had this before: http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=25849

point taken, but this thread was aimed specifically at season tickets.

 

[furryfeet]

found one thats even worse !

birmingham to tamworth 7 days adult
2nd class 29.10
1st class 65.90

thats a multiplier of 2.26 !

I wonder how many of these have actually been sold ?