I'm just wondering whether anybody has any particular wisdom about a booking experience I've just had.
Thanks to a family commitment falling about 36 hours before I'm due to fly to New York, I've been on the TPE website this afternoon booking the following:
Saturday 3rd December Leeds-Northallerton
Sunday 4th December AM Northallerton-Leeds; PM Leeds-Manchester Airport
Saturday 10th December Manchester Airport-Leeds
However the website wouldn't offer me collection from Leeds- it was special delivery or first class post and nothing else. After I'd paid, I tried booking a theoretical journey from Leeds to Manchester Piccadilly tomorrow and it offered me collection at Leeds station.
It's not a massive inconvenience as we're still three weeks away from the weekend when I'm due to travel, but I was wondering whether this was likely to be a permanent feature and if there was a rationale behind it- either with the two journeys, the site can't work out where I want to start, or for non-urgent bookings, is it perhaps cheaper for TPE to post the tickets out rather than pay Virgin whatever they need to for printing the tickets off at Leeds?
Thanks to a family commitment falling about 36 hours before I'm due to fly to New York, I've been on the TPE website this afternoon booking the following:
Saturday 3rd December Leeds-Northallerton
Sunday 4th December AM Northallerton-Leeds; PM Leeds-Manchester Airport
Saturday 10th December Manchester Airport-Leeds
However the website wouldn't offer me collection from Leeds- it was special delivery or first class post and nothing else. After I'd paid, I tried booking a theoretical journey from Leeds to Manchester Piccadilly tomorrow and it offered me collection at Leeds station.
It's not a massive inconvenience as we're still three weeks away from the weekend when I'm due to travel, but I was wondering whether this was likely to be a permanent feature and if there was a rationale behind it- either with the two journeys, the site can't work out where I want to start, or for non-urgent bookings, is it perhaps cheaper for TPE to post the tickets out rather than pay Virgin whatever they need to for printing the tickets off at Leeds?