Looking ahead to the new year, a weekend trip to London and back with EasyJet can be bought for £45.98, while it costs £103.90 for a return trip with Lumo - over double the amount. Lumo don't advertise any return journeys at all on the Sunday, but comparing prices on Monday 6 December, the cheapest flight from London Gatwick to Edinburgh can be bought for £24.99, while the cheapest Lumo train is £32.90. To sign up, simply enter your email address into this link here and select Daily News.Ĭomparing the cost of a return journey to London between the two services in December, it's a similar story.Īn outward flight to London Gatwick with EasyJet can be bought for £35.99 on 3 December, while a journey with Lumo on the same day can be bought for £42.90. The morning newsletter arrives every day before 9am and the evening newsletter, manually curated by the team, is sent at 6.30pm, giving you a round up of the most important stories of the day.
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Get all the latest news and headlines from Edinburgh, Fife and the Lothians sent straight to your inbox twice a day by signing up to our free newsletter.įrom breaking news to the latest on the coronavirus crisis in Scotland, we'll have you covered. The outbound and return journeys combined cost £88.98 when flying with EasyJet, compared to £138 for the Lumo trains - almost £50 more expensive. Looking ahead to next weekend, an outbound flight from Edinburgh to London Gatwick on 5 November can be bought for £35.99, while a Lumo train to London on the same morning costs £69.00.Ī return flight on 7 November with EasyJet is more expensive at £52.99, but still cheaper than the £69 return train offered by Lumo. To find out, I went onto both the Lumo and EasyJet websites, and picked three different weekends over the next three months to compare the price of a return trip. READ MORE - Edinburgh Scotrail services disrupted due to extreme weather overnight Plus: The Orient Express is launching three epic new routes in Europe.New train operator Lumo has now officially launched journeys from Edinburgh to London.Īlthough it was branded an "affordable" option for travel to and from the UK capital when it announced, I was curious if this was really the case in practice.īefore the service began, flying to and from London was consistently cheaper than getting a train, and I wanted to see if this was still the case - or whether Lumo had dethroned EasyJet. It promises not just a great alternative for London-Edinburgh travel, but an exciting blueprint for low-carbon, affordable domestic train routes too.ĭid you see these new sleeper trains that are basically luxury hotels on wheels? Needless to say, if they can pull it off, it’s all very exciting.
Lumo trains will also feature a catering service called LumoEats, free Wi-Fi, paperless ticketing and ‘entertainment systems’ – all within a single class of service. The most expensive ticket is likely to cost £69. Railcards won’t initially be valid on the service, though after the first month, the operator (the Aberdeen-based First Group) expects 60 percent of all single fares to be priced at £30 or less. State-owned LNER will still take up the majority of the trains on the route, with two services every hour.įor the first five weeks, every Lumo journey will cost between £15 and £20. To start with, there will be two services running daily each way, and that will eventually increase to five. The new line will stop at Newcastle and Morpeth, with some services also stopping at Stevenage (which is handily linked to Luton Airport). Not only are trains generally far better for the planet than planes, but Lumo’s brand-new, 100 percent electric-powered fleet is more carbon-efficient than most. On top of that increased affordability, the services will be more sustainable too. The inaugural service ran this morning, before next week’s passenger launch. With one-way fares starting from just £14.90, it will provide serious competition for both the current LNER train service and budget flight routes. From Monday (October 25), a new service from Lumo looks set to transform the train route between the two capitals. With easyJet’s cheapest flights coming in at £27, there’s no competition – on price at least.īut that will all change very, very soon. Book too late, and they can set you back well over £100. Even if you book well in advance, tickets on the King’s Cross to Waverley line start at £50. There’s a reason why so many prefer planes to trains w hen travelling between London and Edinburgh.
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