What is this ticket?

[tramdan]

Hi all,

The fares I’m looking at are Singles from Skegness to York.

A quick search of BR Fares gives only two single fares:
Anytime Day Single (SDS) - £75.40
Off Peak Single (SVS) - £65.30

Looking at the Envoy ticket machine I’m using today also only gives those two flexible fares.

However, searching Trainline (I know, sorry, I was only curious! ) for a peak time journey, it offers an Anytime Day Single (SDS) at £55.10. (That is looking at a journey using the 0818 from SKG on Monday.)

What is this ticket that Trainline are offering? It’s definitely an SDS and not some kind of Advance, and no railcards are involved at all.

Can anyone shed any light on this one? Thanks!

 

[Haywain]

It will be some sort of split ticket.

 

[mattdickinson]

It will be some sort of split ticket.

£55.10 is the new single fare, as LNER are removing most of their return tickets from the 11th June.

A return journey will be £110.20 as against £105.90 currently.

 

[Haywain]

£55.10 is the new single fare, as LNER are removing most of the return tickets from the 11th June.

A return journey will be £110.20 as against £105.90 currently.

Good point, I was fooled by the Trainline reference!

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Presume BR Fares hasn't been updated yet.

 

[Haywain]

Presume BR Fares hasn't been updated yet.

BRFares will only show the fares when they are applicable to travel, on the 11th June.

 

[alex17595]

£55.10 is the new single fare, as LNER are removing most of their return tickets from the 11th June.

A return journey will be £110.20 as against £105.90 currently.

Price going up again. No suprise there

 

[tramdan]

The LNER fare change makes perfect sense, thanks folks.

 

[Haywain]

Price going up again. No suprise there

Well, the OP was looking at the single fare and that's going down by £20.

 

[Watershed]

Price going up again. No suprise there

Indeed. LNER have rather conveniently omitted to mention the fact that they're raising prices again, just 3 months after the annual ~6% price rise.

Well, the OP was looking at the single fare and that's going down by £20.

Rather disingenuous to frame it that way, given that the vast majority of people make return journeys.

 

[Haywain]

Rather disingenuous to frame it that way, given that the vast majority of people make return journeys.

Not really, it's a statement of fact regarding what the OP was asking about. For anyone buying a single it is wrong to say that the fare is increasing, whilst it is entirely correct to say that could be the case for someone wanting to make a return journey.

 

[westv]

Well, the OP was looking at the single fare and that's going down by £20.

Why are some single fares on some routes going down but not others on other routes where LNER are removing the returns?

 

[Haywain]

Why are some single fares on some routes going down but not others on other routes where LNER are removing the returns?

I have no insight into the thinking of the Pricing Manager and his superiors at my former employer.

 

[Wallsendmag]

I have no insight into the thinking of the Pricing Manager and his superiors at my former employer.

I'll just say snap before anyone asks