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Originally Posted by ACustomer
If there is a service provided at a premium price and I chose to spend my hard-earned money on it, how dare anyone question my "need"! It's my right and privelage, plain and simple.
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If you choose to splash out that sum of money on unnecessary excesses on the train, that's fine. But if you choose to put it on a public forum, then it is open to questioning by other posters.
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Originally Posted by dowlingm
Who's going to want to take a client call (on vibrate, obv) thinking some scrote after a few cans is going to start yelling in his ear? Therefore, First. However for me the main thing about 1st is being able to change the ticket as my plans change and IE seem to be missing that point.
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I've taken plenty of calls on trains in standard class and there's been noone yelling in my ear. I can happily sit in standard and enjoy the journey, and work in it if needs be.
In the current climate with people trying to cut down on spending as much as possible, more people have to give up luxuries like first-class travel. It's all about getting from A to B, in the shortest possible time, to the cheapest fare available. As I said before, it's not going to get you to Cork or Galway, or Sligo any quicker than anyone else, and if needs be, as earlier demonstrated, in the rare event that a ticket has to be changed, it can be changed with the minimum of fuss.
Imo, if people in business are regularly shelling out on first-class travel, when it can be done for up to as much as half price elsewhere on the train, it should be when it's economically viable to do so, and not if the firm and it's employee's future is in doubt, as many are at the moment. To me, it's a very expensive waste of ever shrinking budget resources, be it personal or business.
Next, they'll be looking for sleeper carriages.
