Meanwhile I'm on an LNER Aberdeen which is completely full and standing in both classes of travel.
Don’t worry, the Avanti Edinburgh services have been similarly cosy on recent Saturday’s when LNER haven’t been going south of Peterborough.
The Sunday strikes have only been suspended for 3 Sundays - 16th Feb, 23rd Feb, 2nd March. This is to give more time for negotiations.
I'm grateful, but very surprised by this turn of events given the state of industrial relations at Avanti I'd have expected them to stuck by what was planned, i.e. nowt!
Playing fast and loose with the RMT negotiations is one thing, and, in a way, very much to be expected. But the accusation above is that the driver's conditions were broken which is quite a bit more serious and not usually a step you'd expect Aslef to let slip. Obviously without details as to what particular condition, and I don't even have access to Avanti's driver conditions anyway, it's impossible to say further.
The problem was they didn't - they set a precedent for previous dates but not specifically for this one.
I think most have given up even trying to understand the word ‘why’ when it comes to AWC.
And this nonsense (no dig at any TOC involved) will go on and on, but hey when it is a all under one banner, a red one, the travelling public can have total confidence that all will be sorted and this will be a thing of the past... I'm old enough to remember '"the good old days". Can't wait!!
