A quick check of trains from WASH and CHI for tomorrow Monday Jul 10th shows almost all LD sold out or at 90% Our wonderful Amtrak management certainy has messed up greatly. This along with NEC near sold out????
blue streak 1 A quick check of trains from WASH and CHI for tomorrow Monday Jul 10th shows almost all LD sold out or at 90% Our wonderful Amtrak management certainy has messed up greatly. This along with NEC near sold out????
Hasn't this always been an issue during the summer for LD trains and sleepers with week of travel bookings?
CMStPnP blue streak 1 A quick check of trains from WASH and CHI for tomorrow Monday Jul 10th shows almost all LD sold out or at 90% Our wonderful Amtrak management certainy has messed up greatly. This along with NEC near sold out???? Hasn't this always been an issue during the summer for LD trains and sleepers with week of travel bookings?
In the past, the Capitol Limited between Washington and Chicago generally ran with seven or eight cars - superliners. At present it is running with four cars, three for passenger occupation. I believe the pasenger cars are a coach, a lounge and a sleeper with a baggage car. With that limited of a consist, it doesn't take much activity to fill 90% of the available passenger space.
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blue streak 1A quick check of trains from WASH and CHI for tomorrow Monday Jul 10th shows almost all LD sold out or at 90% Our wonderful Amtrak management certainy has messed up greatly. This along with NEC near sold out????
A lot of flights and hotels are sold out, too. Everyone must be incompetent.
Seriously - are you ok? You seem to be having a tantrum every day about something amtrak related.
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One would think being sold out is a good thing.
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[quote user="BaltACD"]In the past, the Capitol Limited between Washington and Chicago generally ran with seven or eight cars - superliners. At present it is running with four cars, three for passenger occupation. [/quote]
The Texas Eagle has been running with a sleeper, a diner or lounge car, and two or three coaches. Before the pandemic, it had a transition sleeper, a regular sleeper, a dinning car, Sightseer lounge car, and three coaches.
The train usually runs with a diner/lounge car, but twice in as many weeks the diner was replaced by a Sightseer lounge car. Given that approximately 85% of its passengers are in coach, that makes more sense to me. How they handled the meals for the first class passengers is unknown.
I believe the sleeper has 14 economy rooms. If I am correct that the train has four onboard service employees, that means four of the rooms are dedicated to the crew.
For a "thinking about it trip" from Temple to Dallas on July 24th, with a return on July 26th, the northbound train is 40% full; the southbound train is 60% booked. The price of an economy room is $132 northbound; it is $182 southbound. The fare for coach is $10 northbound; it is $19 southbound. Before the pandemic, an economy room from TPL to Dallas return usually was $84 each way.
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"The price of an economy room is $132 northbound; it is $182 southbound. The fare for coach is $10 northbound; it is $19 southbound."
Why does it cost more for the southbound trip?
railfanjohn "The price of an economy room is $132 northbound; it is $182 southbound. The fare for coach is $10 northbound; it is $19 southbound." Why does it cost more for the southbound trip?
n012944One would think being sold out is a good thing.
If you are running 12 cars and 1000 paying passengers being FULL can be viewed as good. When you are 3 cars and 100 passengers being sold as FULL, not so much.
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