"Piccadilly Pilot" wrote in message
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Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 20:42:56 on Thu, 26
Aug 2004, Piccadilly Pilot remarked:
It does: but I think "what is the cheapest fare from HH to Newark?"
should elicit the cheapest possible fare even if that involves
multiple tickets.

I suspect that most people faced with that question would not go the
the trouble of wading through the NFM to get the answer the
intending purchaser was wanting (but didn't actually ask for). The
question would have to much more tightly phrased than that.

Something like "What's the cheapest ticket combination you can sell me
to go from here to Newark and back, travelling today only, no break of
journey"?

Something like that. And just hope that the person behind you doesn't want
to catch a train in the next twenty minutes or so. :-)

Yeah, thats kind of why I didn't press him to find something cheaper. There
was a chap in the line behind me wanting tickets for a family of seven to
Victoria. They made their train, but only barely, he came running up the
steps just as the train was pulling in.

Marcus