Advice on cheap ticket release
26 August 2008
TheTrainline.com has launched a new service, 'Ticket Alert', that notifies customers, by email, when advanced tickets become available, enabling them to make significant cost savings.
Ticket Alert enables customers to sign up for email alerts, via TheTrainline.com website, which notify them as soon as advance tickets become available for specific journeys, which the customer pre-selects.
Advance tickets are single fares available up to 12 weeks before departure.
Ticket Alert means customers no longer have to keep checking a website to see when advance tickets are available. TheTrainline now does the checking and searching on their behalf. Via the Ticket Alert homepage, customers will also be able to view the train companies¹ booking horizons, showing how far in advance tickets are available for purchase.
If advance tickets are not available for the chosen journey, customers will receive notification through Ticket Alert one week before the scheduled departure date.
TheTrainline will then provide another option for the journey, guiding them to the cheapest alternative fare availability for their travel date.
Customers can sign up for Alerts from TheTrainline homepage or go direct to www.ticketalert.thetrainline.com
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