🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:48:03 UTC, wensleydale@pacersplace.org.uk (Neil
Williams) wrote:

: On 20 Nov 2004 14:30:59 GMT, "Ian Johnston"
: <NOianSPAM.NOgroupsSPAM@btinternet.com> wrote:
: 
: >Where do you want the money to come from? Would you be happy so see 
: >the cost of advance-purchase tickets rise to meet the shortfall?
: 
: Yes.  Two seats per train at a ridiculous knock-down price are of no
: benefit to the majority of travellers.  They only benefit those two
: lucky passengers and the TOC's advertising.

I thought VT now claimed that a high proportion - 50% - of their seats
were bought in advance purchase deals. That's an awful lot of people 
who'd have to pay a bit more.
 
: BR were as bad at this, mind, if my experience of trying to get the
: old SuperApex tickets even a long way in advance was anything to go
: by.

Indeed. When people criticize the current plethora of fares and deals 
they seem to forget how complicated it was under BR. Remember when 
everying was reformed, leaving only standard fares, blue savers and 
white savers? Didn't take long for that system to expand again ...

Ian

PS And please, don't anyone be tempted to say that it "grew like 
Topsy". When she said "I just growed" she was answering the question 
"Where did you come from?" and not "How did you become the size you 
are?". Erm, off my hobby horse now....