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Nngo11
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The title says it all. Particularly interested in NEC travel. Thanks.
You just board like you have a reservation. This is the fallacy of the "all reserved" NEC service. Both ten trip ticket holders and monthly pass holders can ride almost any non-Acela train without advance reservations. Whether Amtrak tries to factor that into the reservation inventory is anyone's guess.Hmmm. How do tentrips work when a train is sold? Do they hold some tickets for tentrip users? Or do you have to stand? Or do you not get to ride? THanks for your help.
Amtrak already discounts the return leg of a trip (as well as the outbound leg) with their bucket system. It doesn't really matter where you are going. It is almost always cheaper to purchase the ticket in advance than at the window.I suppose the logical next question is: why not? Wouldn't giving a small discount (say, five dollars) on the return ticket encourage people to buy the tickets in advance, thus locking them into taking Amtrak and not, say, getting a ride home or taking the bus or finding a cheap airplane ticket? It would also encourage people to both tickets at once, thus counting down on (by consolidating) the amount of payment processing and ticket issuing etc. that Amtrak has to do.
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