JPS1 Beginning in January business class passengers on NEC regional trains will be able to select their seats. Actually, the computer will assign them a seat when they complete their reservation, but they can change it. This sounds to me like another positive step engineered by Richard Anderson or at least signed off by him.
Beginning in January business class passengers on NEC regional trains will be able to select their seats. Actually, the computer will assign them a seat when they complete their reservation, but they can change it.
This sounds to me like another positive step engineered by Richard Anderson or at least signed off by him.
Will the Amtrak computer show window locations, in scale, with position of intervening partitions? When riding the Acela from DC to Boston, when boarding I like to pick my seat where I have a good view for the 6-hour trip. If an online Amtrak reservation is just a box check as with an airline reservation, then I'm paying a high price for a pig-in-a-poke.
I'd hate to be forced to sit next to a window partition, especially on the stretch north of Wilmington where it's enjoyable to experience the train (even a Regional) outpacing northbound cars on I-95. This idea of reserved seats is just another manifestation of loss of freedom in this modern age. You can't even touch the Liberty Bell anymore, as I could on school trips to Philadelphia in my long-ago youth.
To quell the inevitable response, I do understand the predicament of a family boarding a crowded train at an intermediate stop, if reserved seats are not offered.
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