Clank wrote:
Paul Corfield wrote:
On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 19:32:02 +0000 (UTC), Clank
wrote:

I currently possess a Southern "The Key", but alas am yet to use it. The
main place I would kill for it to work is Gatwick Airport - just being able
to pick up tickets at the gate avoiding the /dreadful/ queues at Gatwick
would be fantastic (i.e. PAYG is not the requirement for me personally.)
It seems to be a race though as to which will get to Gatwick first - The
Key or Oyster...

Surely the Southern Key *does* work at Gatwick?

http://www.southernrailway.com/ticke...fares/the-key/

https://www.southernrailway.com/smar...s/routemap.pdf

Hmm, the text on that first link suggests I could only pick up a single
ticket from Gatwick to a London terminal. If true, that's new in the last
few weeks (and great news) - but still useless to me, as I need to pick up
tickets from Gatwick to East Croydon.

However, the map certainly doesn't imply that restriction, so it could be
just poor wording. I'll try the journey planner...

Wahey, it looks like it works now - selecting "only tickets that can be
loaded onto an ITSO smartcard" now actually shows some tickets.

The Key won the race then :-).

Anyone know when that changed? It's definitely recent. Someone needs to
tell Southern's web folks, because they need to update the text on the
site...