Looks good!
Also Advance tickets can be purchased up to 10 mins before on Cross Country I think.
I didn't know that so thanks for the tip!
It'll be interesting to see if this is rolled out to agents as well as the TOCs offering it on their own websites. Seems as though lots of new features and benefits are being offered on each TOCs own site only e.g. Cross Country waiving the £10 admin fee for exchanges of their own Advance tickets for customers who book through them, Virgin offers free WI-FI for direct customers etc.
I guess it's inevitable that they try to squeeze out agents like us, but it only makes things more complicated for customers which is the opposite of what people want as far as we can tell. It should be one rule for everyone!
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...it would be really useful if TOCs could coordinate the release of their advance fares, and publish a calendar of what's going to be released and when.
I completely agree, it's crazy that it's so complicated! Who knows why they don't get their act together - can't imagine what the benefit is to TOCs for not adhering to a standard booking horizon. We wouldn't need a calendar if it was 3 calendar months across the board.
And they're getting out of date with the rest of Europe there too. Deutsche Bahn and Eurostar are now 180 days and others are considering following suit.
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Good infographic Loco2 - and on a more general note much respect for the work you do (I know it's not for charity, but trying to offer a pan-European ticket booking engine must surely try the patience of a saint at times!).
One thing that isn't featured on the infographic is Railcards. Obviously the 16-25 and Senior but also the Two Together can be well worthwhile, even for just one trip. Of course there's also the problem of information overload!
Thanks for the encouragement! You're right, we definitely feel like we're in an uphill battle sometimes. Good to know we're appreciated.
We omitted railcards on purpose since they're just so complicated. There's so much variation, exclusions etc that we couldn't make a good enough visual. We've save that for the next time!
