Wightlink...what's going on?

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I am not sure if someone has lost the passenger stats at Wightlink but from next week the day trippers 1045 fastCat is no longer, nor is the 1145, 1245 or 1345. These 4 services are dropped and income replacements at 1215, 1315, 1415, 1445. So in effect they have changed the times by half an hour and brought in an extra mid afternoon dead as a dodo in respect of passengers and taken away a potential heavy load 1045 where people having just been able to use their railcards now do not connect to a fastcat . If this is due to staff breaks then they need a better way forward as its rubbish to say the least!

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Apparently this is a cost cutting exercise because of crew breaks. You get the same number of sailings but at a convenience cost. Would not like to be a member of the shore crew at 1020 Monday morning whne the arrivals from London trains find they have to wait until 1115 for a vessel and watch one come in at 1030 and tie up out of service. madness, total madness.