On 07/06/2012 14:59, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 13:59:02 on
Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Paul Corfield remarked:

One service should run at standard fares

You could call it.. Heathrow Connect, perhaps?

(OK not within the zones, but neither is the excess from H&H very much).

Er, yes it is - it's GBP5.20 from H&H to Heathrow.

(And the service is only half-hourly.)


and if people want to pay extra for a premium express then fair enough.

For which the fare is cheaper than a taxi, which was *all* it was ever
supposed to achieve.

I dare say the official justification for HEx was a bit more extensive
than just that.