On Mar 2, 8:11*am, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 17:45:21
on Mon, 1 Mar 2010, remarked:

The problem is lack of consistency. "and connections" covers far more
options with Virgin than with Cross Country for a start.

I wonder if your opinions are being coloured by experiences on the XC
route to Stansted? This used to be run by Central Trains, who only had a
very limited number of point-to-point AP fares. Maybe A-XC, having
inhertited these, have not embellished them (much or at all).

Virgin-XC, on the other hand, seemed to be able to concoct enormously
complex *trips (I've had one with four legs) using "connections", even
if some of the connecting legs were longer than the VXC leg!

Curious as to what that was, if you can remember?