Cheaper Fares, at the Click of a Mouse

LONDON - With Photo

“I just want the cheapest ticket.” “I’m not bothered which day or time I travel.” “I’m happy to plan ahead if it saves me money.”

Sound familiar? Virgin Trains announces today that in addition to its huge range of value fares, thanks to Best Fare Finder it is now even easier for customers to access great value fares at virgintrains.com.

Best Fare Finder is a nifty new online tool which allows customers to search and identify the cheapest Virgin Trains tickets found by other customers across a range of date and time bands. Great for people who are more interested in finding the cheapest ticket than an exact time of travel, Best Fare Finder uses the journey searches made by other customers to find these cheap tickets.

Using Best Fare Finder couldn’t be easier. Go to virgintrains.com, select one of our top 19 routes, tap in when you want to leave, and Best Fare Finder will show you the cheap tickets customers have found around these times and dates. From the table, click the best price and time to suit you and it’ll work out the lowest price currently available for your journey.

Graham Leech, Virgin Trains Commercial Director, says: “With increased services and faster journey times, Virgin Trains has a fantastic product to offer its customers. We want to make access to these fares as easy as possible and that’s what Best Fare Finder does. It really is the best way to bag a bargain.”

More information

Routes

Best Fare Finder is available for our 19 most popular routes, in both directions.

1) London Euston - Birmingham Int 2) London Euston - Birmingham New Street 3) London Euston - Chester 4) London Euston - Coventry 5) London Euston - Crewe 6) London Euston - Glasgow Central 7) London Euston - Lancaster London Euston - Liverpool Lime Street 9) London Euston - Macclesfield 10) London Euston - Manchester Piccadilly 11) London Euston - Preston 12) London Euston - Rugby 13) London Euston - Runcorn 14) London Euston - Stafford 15) London Euston - Stockport 16) London Euston - Stoke on Trent 17) London Euston - Warrington Bank Quay 18) London Euston - Wigan North Western 19) London Euston - Wolverhampton

How it works

1) Best Fare Finder tracks the final prices found by Virgin Trains customers and builds a picture of the best priced tickets for our most popular routes.

2) Prices are usually visible across 12 weeks or three months ahead.

3) Results are displayed in calendar format, with date and time bands, so you can see at a glance how the price for your journey varies.

4) Once you’ve selected a ticket, Best Fare Finder will ask how many people are travelling and details of any railcards and confirm your tickets availability in real time.

5) If your tickets are available, simply proceed through to payment.

6) If for any reason the tickets are no longer available you’ll have the choice of either looking at other cheap fares available or visiting our main site to see the entire range of tickets for that route.

7) Prices shown are the lowest adult single fare, and exclude any promotional fares or Railcard discounts.

Best Fare Finder automatically checks whether a return ticket would be cheaper before you buy.

Ticket sales

In the last year, over two million people have bought Advance purchase tickets through the Virgin Trains website.

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Virgin Trains is the brand name of Virgin Rail Group. We have operated the West Coast passenger train franchise since 1997; the current franchise runs to March 2012.

Virgin Rail Group is owned 51 percent by Virgin Group and 49 percent by Stagecoach.

Virgin Trains has been listed as the Best Train Operator in a survey by the Institute of Customer Service and has been voted Best Rail Company by Travel Weekly magazine and Best UK Domestic Train Service by Business Traveler magazine.

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Source: Virgin Trains

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