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Old June 30th 14, 09:21 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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In message , at 09:54:24 on
Mon, 30 Jun 2014, David Walters remarked:
More difficult is if you have trips to different destinations loaded as
vouchers. Say you live in Grays and have vouchers for both Southend and
London, because you anticipate visiting both soon (and not necessarily
knowing in which order). Which voucher should it swap for a ticket?

Order is apparently important. From
http://www.c2c-online.co.uk/customer...c2c-smart-faqs "PLEASE
NOTE: Tickets can only be used in the order in which they were purchased".


That still doesn't help with deciding if a pax who travelled from home (A)
to work (X) on a return ticket and has just purchased a ticket from X to B,
is starting his journey to B or his return to A.


The A to X ticket was bought before the X to B ticket so the return
portion of the A to X ticket gets used when he enters X. Or at least
that is my understanding of the rules.


C2C is also much simpler because they don't have any period returns.

Therefore once you've arrived at X the "return half X-A" is going to
expire that night anyway. In the situation that you stayed overnight
near X, and then used a pre-bought ticket X-B it should be possible to
make that work even if the X-B was bought before the A-X-A ticket.

The question remains, though, if the passenger presents himself at A
with a X-B (for tommorrow, bought yesterday) and an A-X-A (bought
today), will it accept the later-bought A-X-A or will it say "you must
use the X-B ticket first, you are at A not X, bugger off".
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Roland Perry