The Ticket Collector

Virgin ‘Free’ First Class Ticket

If you travelled or attempted to travel on Virmin Trains either into or out of London Euston between 31 December 2007 and 3 January 2008 inclusive, then you are entitled to one complimentary, First Class return journey to use anywhere on their network. But good luck trying to claim it.

Virmin are attempting to try and regain some good PR from this stunt, but as always with Virmin they have to stick a huge list of restrictions and terms. You have to be flexible in which free first class return journey you choose (i.e. travelling out at 5am and arriving back at midnight), you have to stick to that train and there are only 100,000 tickets available.

Please remember that Virmin are hoping that you will forget that you can still claim compensation for the original ticket and only list it once on their site that you can. “Claiming a ‘This one’s on us’ Virgin Trains ticket does not affect your statutory rights and a full refund of your original ticket dated for travel between 31 December 2007 and 3 January 2008 will still be available.”

More information and the small print can be found at http://www.thisonesonus.com/