BigAl1 Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 If you are traveling by train to Manchester airport and buying advance purchase tickets you should check the cost of buying the tickets to Manchester Piccadilly and then a separate ticket to the airport you could save a fortune on the same trains an example from a random date 24th April leaving Sheffield on 13.11 Transpennine express to Manchester Airport £33.90 24th April leaving Sheffield on 13.11 Transpennine express to Manchester Piccadilly £5.40 + £4.90 to airport booked separately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeHasRisen Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 (edited) 14 minutes ago, BigAl1 said: If you are traveling by train to Manchester airport and buying advance purchase tickets you should check the cost of buying the tickets to Manchester Piccadilly and then a separate ticket to the airport you could save a fortune on the same trains an example from a random date 24th April leaving Sheffield on 13.11 Transpennine express to Manchester Airport £33.90 24th April leaving Sheffield on 13.11 Transpennine express to Manchester Piccadilly £5.40 + £4.90 to airport booked separately The current Advance price is £12 for that journey. £33.90 is the walk up price (Anytime Day Single), so you arent comparing the same things. Still a small saving though but not as big as you first thought. I once had call to go to Leicester and it was cheaper to buy a Lincoln to Leicester open return than it was a Sheffield to Leicester one. Going via Sheffield on the Lincoln-Leicester ticket is a permitted route. The entire systen is bonkers. Edited February 24, 2023 by HeHasRisen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAl1 Posted February 24, 2023 Author Share Posted February 24, 2023 6 minutes ago, HeHasRisen said: The current Advance price is £12 for that journey. £33.90 is the walk up price (Anytime Day Single), so you arent comparing the same things. Still a small saving though but not as big as you first thought. I once had call to go to Leicester and it was cheaper to buy a Lincoln to Leicester open return than it was a Sheffield to Leicester one. Going via Sheffield on the Lincoln-Leicester ticket is a permitted route. The entire systen is bonkers. sorry you are not comparing like with like the fares on 11th April are different from what I was looking up on 24th April - true advance fare may not have been released as yet to airport even if they have been to Piccadilly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeHasRisen Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 (edited) Sorry I misread the dates! Will likely be the case that a) all the Advances for that trip on the 24th have sold out, or b) they havent released them yet. It just highlights how bonkers the system is. Anyone savvy enough will split ticket, or at least check if doing that is cheaper, as you have done. Edited February 24, 2023 by HeHasRisen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAl1 Posted February 24, 2023 Author Share Posted February 24, 2023 No bonkers system if advance purchases are available on both trains separately (now that no through trains to airport) then one would have thought trying to buy them on the one ticket would also be possible Anyway just a warning for others as this is not the first time I have seen such a difference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeHasRisen Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 2 minutes ago, BigAl1 said: No bonkers system if advance purchases are available on both trains separately (now that no through trains to airport) then one would have thought trying to buy them on the one ticket would also be possible Which highlights how bonkers it all is, aye. Just like the Lincoln-Sheffield-Leciester anomaly highlighted above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meltman Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 My Grandson goes to Manchester by train quite often. He says the cheapest is to split tickets... Get Sheffield to Grindleford and Grindleford to Manchester. It's all on the same train. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeHasRisen Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 3 minutes ago, Meltman said: My Grandson goes to Manchester by train quite often. He says the cheapest is to split tickets... Get Sheffield to Grindleford and Grindleford to Manchester. It's all on the same train. Aye, the slow train. If time is your friend, crack on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPertByExperien Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 35 minutes ago, Meltman said: My Grandson goes to Manchester by train quite often. He says the cheapest is to split tickets... Get Sheffield to Grindleford and Grindleford to Manchester. It's all on the same train. It might be considerably cheaper but I bet it takes considerably longer as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meltman Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 32 minutes ago, XPertByExperien said: It might be considerably cheaper but I bet it takes considerably longer as well. He's usually not in a rush. 32 minutes ago, XPertByExperien said: It might be considerably cheaper but I bet it takes considerably longer as well. He's usually not in a rush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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