Avanti suspends ticket sales and running only one train per hour to London

Stephen Ireland's pants said:
I would imagine that's why they are striking to prevent change to the contracts. Its human nature I guess not to give up a good thing. They can not be possibly striking because 60k for 38 hours a week is below the minimum wage . I stand corrected if wrong but the job adverts I've seen previously were very lucrative.
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The strike is about changes to terms and conditions,that have been hard fought for and were part of the attraction when applying for the roles,as well as pay.

Its not unreasonable to expect a rise that goes someway to combatting inflation and recent ludicrous hikes.Certain TOCS have not had a rise for approaching 4 years,they are in reality now a few thousand pounds worse off.

Its not a race to the bottom,despite what nonsense that fucking clueless clown Schapps is spouting and promoting......and to expect a reasonable and adequate deal and compensation in return for any alterations to working/pension conditions is only fair
 
Stephen Ireland's pants said:
I would imagine that's why they are striking to prevent change to the contracts. Its human nature I guess not to give up a good thing. They can not be possibly striking because 60k for 38 hours a week is below the minimum wage . I stand corrected if wrong but the job adverts I've seen previously were very lucrative.
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Even if they were contracted to weekends the are still under staffed, that says a lot if they are earning those sort of wages, lots of these companies are run on overtime, so even if they dont recruit more and the drivers still say ok I’ll work weekends but no ore than my hours you’d still have lots of trains cancelled.
The strikes are not just about working weekends there is lots of other details, one i think is they can just at the drop of a hat change your shift with no notice, so how does that work with a good family life? There are lots of safety issues as well when you cut staff, it’s ok as long as no one gets hurt but when they do then these bosses will slope off and let someone else take the blame.
 
No change to the ongoing bunko with Avanti West Coast I see. Trying to book travel for the United and Brighton games, but all weekends for (at least) the next 2 months are grayed out on their timetable, even this weekend coming. I rang them up and they said they are currently releasing weekend tickets for sale only 4 or 5 days in advance of travel. The nation’s premier railway line and you can’t buy tickets for weekend travel. I’ve said it before about a million times, but this verkakte country is utterly fucking broken
 
Avanti have various different industrial disputes with their staff that I'm aware of.

Their management are the biggest bullying bastards on the railway and that's saying something. They could almost be the test bed for what Schapps wants.

Imposition of illegal rostering has led to a spike in staff sickness because they are fatigued by them. Morale is lower than a snakes belly with a workforce feeling bullied. The sooner they have their contact ripped up the better. Their attitude is pure profit over any kind of service.
 
Slightly off topic, but not that much. I've been trying to work out how to get up from London for the derby, if Avanti are simply not running (at present no trains announced for any weekends, except that I see they're running tomorrow). One way is to go up via Sheffield. Anybody been taking the Transpennine recently? I ask because when I've passed through Piccadilly recently, that doesn't seem to be entirely reliable. Is Northern more reliable than Transpennine, or can I rely on the latter?
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Slightly off topic, but not that much. I've been trying to work out how to get up from London for the derby, if Avanti are simply not running (at present no trains announced for any weekends, except that I see they're running tomorrow). One way is to go up via Sheffield. Anybody been taking the Transpennine recently? I ask because when I've passed through Piccadilly recently, that doesn't seem to be entirely reliable. Is Northern more reliable than Transpennine, or can I rely on the latter?
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Go to Bristol or Birmingham and hop on the cross-country?
 
mat said:
Avanti have various different industrial disputes with their staff that I'm aware of.

Their management are the biggest bullying bastards on the railway and that's saying something. They could almost be the test bed for what Schapps wants.

Imposition of illegal rostering has led to a spike in staff sickness because they are fatigued by them. Morale is lower than a snakes belly with a workforce feeling bullied. The sooner they have their contact ripped up the better. Their attitude is pure profit over any kind of service.
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Never quite understood according to what criteria Virgin lost the deal. I did that run Euston to Piccadilly and back many times. I don't remember any cancelled trains, and they were rarely late. They were o.k., by and large.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Slightly off topic, but not that much. I've been trying to work out how to get up from London for the derby, if Avanti are simply not running (at present no trains announced for any weekends, except that I see they're running tomorrow). One way is to go up via Sheffield. Anybody been taking the Transpennine recently? I ask because when I've passed through Piccadilly recently, that doesn't seem to be entirely reliable. Is Northern more reliable than Transpennine, or can I rely on the latter?
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Can't advise on that but I had some friends come up to Manchester from London a few weeks ago when there was a strike on and they changed at Stafford. Booking it as two separate journeys/tickets. So maybe look at that
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Slightly off topic, but not that much. I've been trying to work out how to get up from London for the derby, if Avanti are simply not running (at present no trains announced for any weekends, except that I see they're running tomorrow). One way is to go up via Sheffield. Anybody been taking the Transpennine recently? I ask because when I've passed through Piccadilly recently, that doesn't seem to be entirely reliable. Is Northern more reliable than Transpennine, or can I rely on the latter?
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Transpennine are dreadful, they've been having multiple cancellations outside of strike days. I was waiting for a different train at Picc recently and two TPE cancellations were announced in quick succession.
 
Stop being so miserable. One an hour, luxury. I want to go from Sydney (the real capital if Australia) to Canberra (the pretend capital) I can go at 8.05am 12 noon or 5pm.
That's it.
 
Blue Mist said:
Stop being so miserable. One an hour, luxury. I want to go from Sydney (the real capital if Australia) to Canberra (the pretend capital) I can go at 8.05am 12 noon or 5pm.
That's it.
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That’s because they have one train and one line of track. You have to wait until it comes back.

Once they train up Kangaroos to drive trains there won't be a problem though.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Never quite understood according to what criteria Virgin lost the deal. I did that run Euston to Piccadilly and back many times. I don't remember any cancelled trains, and they were rarely late. They were o.k., by and large.
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Beardy was suiing the government over NHS contracts at the time. This was their way of telling him to fuck off.
 
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