How can I book the Accesrail air-rail intermodal solution ticket?
The Accesrail website states:
First Great Western now provides, thanks to AccesRail, its first air-rail intermodal solution. This allows passengers to go to/from Heathrow or Gatwick Airport to their First Great Western destination of choice.
Passengers receive an intermodal ticket that covers both their flight and rail journey. Depending on which airport the passenger travels, train connections are slightly different.
As a passenger, how do I purchase such an intermodal ticket? Accesrail does not seem to sell them. There is rail-fly.com but that seems to cover only flights to Singapore.
Best Answer
The accesrail site lists IATA airport codes for the train stations. I've tried putting those into flight-search engines and even the sites belonging to the airlines that accesrail mentions as participating, and they don't recognise them, so I think the only answer is to use a travel agent.
Note that the airport codes do not match the UK rail station codes, e.g. Bristol Temple Meads is BRI on UK rail, but TPB on IATA - if you put BRI into a flight-search engine, you'll end up in Bari.
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