Re: GNER - in denial?

In message <f5f1dff4-0ed5-4935-9e35-11713d70a628@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, at 11:16:23 on Fri, 30 Nov 2007, W14_Fishbourne <w14_fishbourne@xxxxxxxxxxxx> remarked:
I don't know who owns the new GNER ticketing website. It may well be
GNER, in which case it can carry on after 9 December happily selling
other people's tickets as a rival to The Trainline. It might prove
more profitable to take 9% of a large number of ECML tickets than to
run the ECML trains!

A bit like Thames TV continues to make programmes (most notably "The Bill"), fifteen years after losing its broadcasting franchise. Yes, it's been the subject of various other mergers and acquisitions along the way, but it's still basically in business.
--
Roland Perry
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