Comments on: GNER’s AJAX Ticket Booking Website http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog/2007/12/02/gners-ajax-ticket-booking-website/ The life and viewpoint of Martin Smith Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:03:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Dave http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog/2007/12/02/gners-ajax-ticket-booking-website/#comment-107 Dave Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:21:49 +0000 http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog/2007/12/02/gner-online-ticket-booking-rules/#comment-107 Well I'm happy to say National Express did keep the GNER booking engine, you just need to remember a longer URL www.nationalexpresseastcoast.com with a URL that long it's worth bookmarking :) Well I’m happy to say National Express did keep the GNER booking engine, you just need to remember a longer URL http://www.nationalexpresseastcoast.com with a URL that long it’s worth bookmarking :)

]]> By: Flow Interactive :: The Think blog. » Flow pproject: National Express East Coast - great customer feedback http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog/2007/12/02/gners-ajax-ticket-booking-website/#comment-106 Flow Interactive :: The Think blog. » Flow pproject: National Express East Coast - great customer feedback Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:34:58 +0000 http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog/2007/12/02/gner-online-ticket-booking-rules/#comment-106 [...] blogosphere is also responding positively.For example... "By chance I stumbled onto GNER’s site. They have recently moved to their own custom-designed [...] […] blogosphere is also responding positively.For example… “By chance I stumbled onto GNER’s site. They have recently moved to their own custom-designed […]

]]> By: Dave http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog/2007/12/02/gners-ajax-ticket-booking-website/#comment-80 Dave Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:09:23 +0000 http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog/2007/12/02/gner-online-ticket-booking-rules/#comment-80 A great booking engine indeed, but GNER will not be around after 9th December, they've lost their franchise and will be National Express east coast after that date. Hopefully the booking site will be retained by Nat Express (although I think they have a stake in thetrainline - National Express used to own qjump which used to have its own booking engine, but it merged with the Virgin owned trainline and scrapped its own engine). GNER have only just launched the booking engine, it has been in development for a while, before they knew they'd lost the franchise, it looks like they're hoping to make money by licensing the site to other companies to recoup the development cost. A great booking engine indeed, but GNER will not be around after 9th December, they’ve lost their franchise and will be National Express east coast after that date.

Hopefully the booking site will be retained by Nat Express (although I think they have a stake in thetrainline - National Express used to own qjump which used to have its own booking engine, but it merged with the Virgin owned trainline and scrapped its own engine).

GNER have only just launched the booking engine, it has been in development for a while, before they knew they’d lost the franchise, it looks like they’re hoping to make money by licensing the site to other companies to recoup the development cost.

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