Virgin - Removal of Cheap Advance Fares

[yorksrob]

Err no...
but as you've been benefiting from an error that has cost Virgin £1800 per year, maybe you should consider sending them a cheque for £1800 per year for however many years you have been travelling.
Or alternatively you could accept it was an error and that you'll now have to pay the going rate

Or perhaps the "error" is just a way for them to avoid admitting that they're jacking up the price.

I certainly find it curious that this "error" has been around for four years without them noticing.

 

[Starmill]

Look at Friday 3 July for Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston. £25 tickets are available on the 0505 and 0555. The 0610 and 0735 can be had for £35. This is bizarre. Getting something for less than £100 on any of these services can be considered doing well.

 

[Mag_seven]

Look at Friday 3 July for Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston. £25 tickets are available on the 0505 and 0555. The 0610 and 0735 can be had for £35. This is bizarre. Getting something for less than £100 on any of these services can be considered doing well.

Not surprising as Friday tends to be the quietest day of the working week for business travel.

 

[Starmill]

Not surprising as Friday tends to be the quietest day of the working week for business travel.

Well maybe yes. But I'm surprised that justifies the fare being between a quarter and a fifth of what it is on other days! For some Monday - Thursday dates beyond it, the cheapest ticket is £135.

 

[Bletchleyite]

Well maybe yes. But I'm surprised that justifies the fare being between a quarter and a fifth of what it is on other days! For some Monday - Thursday dates beyond it, the cheapest ticket is £135.

Time for me to pop up on this subject

Simply because (a) there are spare seats, and (b) they believe that is the fare at which they'll sell them to day trippers, I guess.

 

[gordonthemoron]

Time for me to pop up on this subject

Simply because (a) there are spare seats, and (b) they believe that is the fare at which they'll sell them to day trippers, I guess.

Virgin sell cheap seats on busy services too and they also have expensive tickets on empty trains as you probably know

 

[Bletchleyite]

Virgin sell cheap seats on busy services too and they also have expensive tickets on empty trains as you probably know

I suppose to be fair the policy is set to maximise revenue not occupancy.

 

[Clip]

Well maybe yes. But I'm surprised that justifies the fare being between a quarter and a fifth of what it is on other days! For some Monday - Thursday dates beyond it, the cheapest ticket is £135.

Im more surprised you are seemingly moaning about very cheap fares available?

Even on the Thursday before it you cant get to London before 11 for dirt cheap prices.

They obviously know bhow well their trains are loaded and they are going to run them anyway so why not get some money from doing so - if that means £20 fares then that should be good news shouldn't it?

 

[Starmill]

I'm not moaning as such as you very helpfully put it. I'm expressing cynicism at the idea that demand at 5am is somehow 6 times great er on a Thursday morning than it is on a Friday morning.

 

[CaptainHaddock]

The latest, "unofficial", advice that I have had from a Virgin representative is that the priced the tickets incorrectly several years ago, this only came to light 4 weeks ago and the error was corrected. Therefore, this accounts for the £40 to £80 increase. This error is going to cost me £1800/year.

As I said earlier in the thread the £40 advance single is still available on the 0618 from Bangor so your "unofficial" advice is untrue. The £40 fare still exists, it's just no longer available on the train you want to travel on.