Everything in your itinerary must be within that 11 months. It'll give you an error, if you say, search NYP-EMY for the last day enabled in the calendar, as your connection departs Chicago more than 11 months out.You should be able to "look" (and book) 11 months out.
But the error message says "Problem with selected travel date." It doesn't say "sold out."Everything in your itinerary must be within that 11 months. It'll give you an error, if you say, search NYP-EMY for the last day enabled in the calendar, as your connection departs Chicago more than 11 months out.You should be able to "look" (and book) 11 months out.
Again, the website wouldn't say "sold out" if that was the case, it would say there is a problem with the selected date.It may be a station that only gets trains on certain days, as well.
11 months out is the limit. Wait until July.It is for early next June. Bloomington to NYC and then to ft lauderdale.
Here’s an observation and question. I was looking at the Empire Builder for my son to GPK. I first tried AmSnag and thought I was seeing a mistake. I went to the AMTK site and saw the same thing.11 months out is the limit. Wait until July.It is for early next June. Bloomington to NYC and then to ft lauderdale.
One data point. I often travel on the Empire Builder between St. Paul, where I live, and Minot, where my sisters live. Not a very interesting itinerary, but one I'm on every month or two. In the past couple of years I've found that the rate for a roomette is defaulted in the second bucket ($144), but it usually drops at some point to the bottom bucket ($98) before I travel. I book at the higher rate, and then when amsnag says the price has dropped, I cancel my reservation, take the eVoucher, and book at the lower price (using the eVoucher), usually ending up in the same roomette. I don't mind banking value in eVouchers, because I know that I'll be on the train again soon enough. I've never bothered to determine when the price drops, because that's not important to me, but your theory seems reasonable.So my question is; does AMTK’s fare program “default” to set of single bucket fares & room availability numbers on a rolling six-month basis? That’s what this looks like. So I won’t be able to see all the bucket fares and available rooms for the first week in June, 2016 until after the first week of January 2016?
One ‘could’ book now, eleven month out, but at what looks like a very high bucket price due to the low quantity of rooms the program thinks is available. Or wait until January 2016 and pay perhaps half today’s price. Or am I missing something here?
Here's what I see for 09/23/15 for 20 days and 01/23/16 for 20 days. This is for MSP to GPK. What happened to the $115 Coach, $157 Roomettes, $346 Family Bedrooms and $343 Bedrooms after Jan. 1, 2016? 01/23/16 is probably not a high demand time of year for the EB. One might expect lower prices mid-Winter then late-Summer. I'm just assuming this is Amtrak's version of the Airlines "Yield Management" systems. As with Airlines it just sucks for travel planing purposes. Pay me big $$$ now or takes your chances later, LOL.@prech786
I tested your hypothesis from Dec 21 (it's now June 20) for 20 days from CHI to GPK. It wasn't rejected for coach and bedroom, except for one day that BR's sold out. Roomette and family room's prices varied from day to day.
I also tried CHI to Denver from Dec 21 for 20 days and all types of prices differed.
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