Today I paid the eye watering amount of £183 for a single to london from Manchester. I'd always assumed that this figure was down to supply and demand and that the high ticket price was because other people had got in and bought up the cheap tickets already. As we pulled out of Manchester I was the only person in coach H. I'd already walked through G and there was nobody in there either. At Stockport 1 more got on and another 2 at Macclesfield. By Stoke we had 6 in total and then at Rugby (where the journey price is £80.50) the total in a coach with 48 seats was 12. Hardly packed like sardines. Surely they would generate more income if they had a higher degree of utilisation, either by dropping the overall price for people booking in advance and/or reducing the differential between the standard price and first. On the train this morning,
1 * 183 - Me
1 * 183 (same price from stockport - so manchester to stockport = 0!!
2 * 169
2 * 142
6 * 80.50
Total for coach H was 1471 - surley it can't be too difficult to adjust the fares to encourage more people to travel and beat that score!!
1 * 183 - Me
1 * 183 (same price from stockport - so manchester to stockport = 0!!
2 * 169
2 * 142
6 * 80.50
Total for coach H was 1471 - surley it can't be too difficult to adjust the fares to encourage more people to travel and beat that score!!
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