How we check fares and times

Where the numbers come from

Fares and journey times are taken from the organisation that actually sets them — the airport rail operator, the city transit authority, the published taxi tariff — rather than from booking aggregators or other travel sites. Where a route page makes a specific claim about a fare, a frequency or a last train, the source for that claim is listed at the bottom of the page with the date it was checked.

Taxi and private-transfer prices are the exception: those are ranges, not fixed tariffs, and they move with traffic, time of day and demand. We give the band a traveller should expect rather than a single figure, and we say when a supplement applies.

Currency

Each fare is recorded in the currency its source quotes — usually the one you will pay in at that airport. Pages display prices in the local currency by default, and the switcher converts them into your own at approximate rates for comparison. If a converted figure and the operator’s price differ, the operator’s price in its own currency is the one to trust.

How current this is

Each route page carries a date in its header. Pages whose fares have been held against named sources show “Fares checked” with the date of that check, and list the sources at the bottom of the page. Pages that have not yet been through that check show “Updated” — the date the page’s content last changed, never the date the site was rebuilt. We work through the most-read routes first.

Operators change fares without notice, and some do it more often than we can re-check every route. If a figure here and the operator’s own page disagree, the operator is right. Treat what you read here as what to expect, and confirm before you buy.

What we are not

This site does not sell tickets and is not affiliated with any airport, transport operator or booking site. It is funded by advertising served by Google, which has no say in what a page recommends — the cheapest and fastest options are worked out from fares and times, whoever runs them. See the advertising and editorial policy.

Corrections

If a fare, a journey time or a platform detail here is wrong, please tell us — those are the errors that cost a traveller money or a train. Corrections are made to the page itself and the check date is moved forward, so you can see when it was last held against its sources.

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