Avanti West Coast

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RE: Avanti West Coast

(15/05/2020 09:57)knutstransport Wrote:  Avanti are saying travel may be refused to those without seat reservations to maintain social distancing on board.

I wonder what will happen to someone with a ticket involving multiple legs, where one leg is delayed and they miss the train with their reserved seat? I also wonder if they've considered how Delay Repay will work if that happens.

I have seen that LNER are going to introduce mandatory seat reservations too.

Avanti ought then to allow us to check seat availability and book a seat subject to availability even after booking a flexible ticket. Alternatively they should shelve flexible tickets in favour of just Advance tickets, but this would mean withdrawing useful or essential flexibility for people.

Avanti not having inherited the Virgin facility of letting us choose our seats could mean being forced to for example sit in a rear facing rather than a front facing seat.

With any luck this will only be until the 3rd phase of the lockdown lifting, provisionally due July 4th.