Pete The Badge Q&A

[berryblue]

Have you tried Trainline ? Avanti didn’t have the timetable options but Trainline did. I booked a few weeks ago on the 7.55.

Cheers, I have avoided Trainline because they have a charge but will look at it in future

 

[berryblue]

I use(d) them for home games from MK, and I don't think it's Avanti that is the issue, I think it's more covid related, ie nobody used trains for months and months, and so they're trying to recoup the money they lost, they hadn't been doing it that long before covid, was it 12 moths ?

Avanti had good deals coming north pre covid, perhaps not quite as good as some of the virgin ones, and with virgin, if you had a season card you got an extra 25% off some trains.

I've not even looked this season so far, couldn't do Norwich, and didn't want to be saddled with a train full of that lot on Saturday either.

Agree it is possibly Covid related to a certain extent but why they say they offer advance fares and even tell you to click a box if you want information as to when they are available, then nothing, beggers belief!

 

[cleavers]

Agree it is possibly Covid related to a certain extent but why they say they offer advance fares and even tell you to click a box if you want information as to when they are available, then nothing, beggers belief!

To be fair "when they are available" is the clue, they don't have to tell you if they're not available, currently they're not, but I think they'll need to incentivise eventually, a carriage with 80 seats, only 10 filled at £40 single = £400, a carriage with 80 seats filled at £20 = £1600, unfortunately at the moments lots are travelling for all kinds of reasons, lets see where they are in January ?

Anyway we're getting away from Pete, who it will be sad if he can't go, and to a degree I share a similar problem, but luckily I can drive, but I hate it, 2 years ago the train was cheaper most of the time, and it was far more comfortable/relaxing.