Christmas travel: move fast to snap up cheap tickets

If you have festive plans, act now, before all the best train fares and flights are snapped upThis year, Saturday 22 December looks set to be the big travel weekend ahead of a Tuesday Christmas day – and if you’ve got any sense you won’t leave your travel arrangements to the last minute because if you do, you’ll face train fares that would make even Santa think twice.The train operators are supposed to offer the cheapest advance fares 12 weeks before departure but this re