Scotrail said:
Looks like it’s unlimited first class bashing over the weekends for a £10 for me. I’m going to have fun explaining this to the guards
I think the best thing to do is print off the website and keep it on me. Best to prepare for the worst.
Yes.
Nope.
Doesn’t say anything about that in the small print.
I doubt it, only a few fare-savvy people will take advantage of it. The average passenger won't even bother with this offer.
So you can buy a season ticket that'll be valid for these future weekends, and you'll qualify for the free travel.
A tiny handful of people getting travel at a cheap rate, who probably wouldn't have paid the hundreds of pounds for First Off Peak / Anytime tickets anyway, makes ScotRail a small amount of extra money and offers new or infrequent customers goodwill. A distinct and larger but still relatively speaking small group of people who have long-term season tickets and are as such some of ScotRail's most frequent and loyal customers making a few odd extra weekend journeys offers gets ScotRail a lot of extra goodwill.
The only loss will be all the free food and drink that will be consumed with the first class ticket
An occasional cup of cheap coffee at wholesale prices - oooh expensive!
A can of coke, sandwich and biscuits on every service I bash will add up, not to mention the bacon rolls in the morning HST services. Spread across 2 days will most likely cover the cost, and then some, of the ticket.
That's sensible enough as this is a free "reward" for long-suffering commuters: what proportion of one's free ticket would one expect to be repaid?
