First Class Carriages on Trains...GRRRR!

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On South West trains commuter service, the first class carriages in the newest stock (2 per 8-car train) are available for all.

??? You mean that there's no first class tickets on this commuter service??

I noticed that some faster trains on my line DO have a different 1st class that you're not allowed to sit in, but I take the "slow" train (i.e. it stops at every station between me - Barnes - and Waterloo) and that's always standard class as far as I can tell. However, only the latest trains (the blue ones) have first class carriages in any case.

― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Monday, 19 February 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i only ever travel by train with work and they won't let us use first class. On the plus side we do have our own ticket printer for booking cheap advanced tickets.

― Ste (fuzzy), Monday, 19 February 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Because they bring down all their other costs too. Ryanair don't use computers to check you in, fly into cheap airports where they have cheap deals for takeoff and landing, don't give you back your travel taxes if you don't get on the plane, don't feed you, don't bother printing magazines, don't have cleaners clean a plane between flights, and so on and so on. They also sell a whole bunch of other ancillary stuff.

Also they only use one type of aircraft therefore negating the need to train dudes up on maintenance of more than one type, also costs of parts = cheaper.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

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