I don't know whether to laugh or cry about this,

Because I had a meeting in London today, rather than my usual 18:15 FRA - LHR, 21:05 LHR MME. I spoke nicely to LH on Monday and they swapped my 'W' class for a 'W' class at 07:35 this morning, and charged me 35 GBP. Perfectly acceptable under the circumstances.

The meeting finished just after two, so I got myself out to LHR on the tube and at 15:40 about asked nicely if I could have a seat on the 16:20. Yes sir, seats are available but ah... as your journey started in Frankfurt you must change the whole of your fare, that will be 330 GBP please. Can this really be true??? you have to have the whole fare recalculated for the last leg?

Now obviously I'm no mug, so what about your tiniest one way fare? 102 GBP says the man. So I declined that as well.

Empty seats went to MME and right now I'm sat in the DC for 5 hours, drinking bmi beer and eating bmi food when they could have asked a reasonable sum off me for getting me home 5 hours earlier and another 5 hours to resell my seat.