Originally Posted by
SK AAR
Say I would be arriving LHR T2 in the morning, take the Elizabeth Line to zone 1 (Liverpool Street to be exact), take the tube or busses a few times during the day in zone 1, and finally the Thames Link from London Bridge to LGW in the early evening, what would the daily fare cap be? (Anytime and if I use my credit card for contactless travel)
EDIT: £40.90?
If yes, it seems I would be better off buying an advance ticket London Bridge to Gatwick Airport at £14.40 to be able to reduce the daily cap to £16.30 for zone1-6
To get the daily off-peak cap rate of £16.30 for zones 1-6, you'd need to make sure you will not be travelling before 09:30 or between 16:00 and 19:00. Higher daily cap will apply if you tap in betwen those times.
If you are only going one way from London Bridge to Gatwick, you could buy a one day travelcard "Gatwick Airport to London Travelcard Zones 1-6" for £20.60. Valid on Thameslink only trains from London Bridge to Gatwick.
This entitles you to one journey from Gatwick to the start of the zone 6, all day within zones 1-6, and one journey back to Gatwick.
For the journey you mention, you would be discarding the outward journey from GTW to zone 6, just utilising the zone 1-6 travelcard and then returning to GTW.
Only valid after 09:30 from Heathrow and no evening time restrictions for the journey to Gatwick.
You can buy this online from any rail company website/app (e.g. Thameslink) and collect the ticket from the vending machines at Heathrow.
This is a paper ticket and must be collected or purchased from the vending machine at Heathrow.