Cross Country faces significant hurdles

Exciting news from Arriva Cross Country

Click here to visit their new Beta site.

Eye wonders if it will ever make Release 1.0

UPDATE: This just in from J Alfred Prufrock...

Congratulations to Eye for this link to Cross Country's Beta Site - a classic example of how yield management gone mad is crippling the train operators' finances.

For example, £4.50 for Manchester-Reading?

At a time when the company is engaged on a major cost cutting exercise?

The madness!

UPDATE: This just in from Alex Gill, Account Director at GraphicoDMG...

Hi “Fact Compiler”

Thanks for posting the beta link on your blog. Always a good read!

Hopefully the new beta site will see the light of day (and very soon J) . We listened to what users were telling us, and are trying to improve the experience of searching for cheap tickets, as well as helping them with features like recent and favourite searches.

It works best in Firefox at the mo – we are now adding all of the required “Browser hacks” needed to make sites work across the plethora of slightly different or newly updated web browsers like IE8, chrome, safari…..as well as fixing the usual teething problems.

Would it be possible for you to amend the link to this.

This page explains what works and what doesn’t yet, as well as what’s new, and is a good place for people to start.

Any feedback welcome!