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I say "adjusted" since there now appear to be cheaper fares as well!
Just was checking fares for a Black Friday trip to New York. It used to be that the lowest fare you'd see BAL-NYP on a regional was $64. Now to my suprise, its $61.
The cheapest fare for either BAL-RVM or BAL-PHL had previously been $40 - now its $37.
The next bucket up is priced at a dollar more for BAL-PHL: $53 instead of $52.
This sort of seems like a nice effect for the price sensitive and early planners like myself who actually save a few bucks. I assume that any increases increase incrementally in the higher fare buckets.
Have not checked the LD trains whose prices I can recall easily or sleeper buckets I can recall easily to see how these are affected, but I will and likely report back.
EDIT
Did a little more checking and for the most part, the fare changes are fairly modest. Did find a third bucket PHL-BAL fare that used to be $61 is now $64. (now making it 4 dollars CHEAPER for me to book the Crescent or Silver Meteor back from Philly and then BUY another Amtrak ticket from WAS to BAL.)
I can see my rides on the Pennsylvanian may have ended however, Amtrak totally disrupted the hiccup that priced a BAL-PHL-PGH ticket as low as $42 - the lowest is now $82 for the same ticket - the BAL-WAS-PGH ride via the CL is still as low as $45 though.
Sleeper fares appear untouched - the low bucket on the Capitol Limited WAS-CHI is still $114 for a Roomette. phew!!!!
Just was checking fares for a Black Friday trip to New York. It used to be that the lowest fare you'd see BAL-NYP on a regional was $64. Now to my suprise, its $61.
The cheapest fare for either BAL-RVM or BAL-PHL had previously been $40 - now its $37.
The next bucket up is priced at a dollar more for BAL-PHL: $53 instead of $52.
This sort of seems like a nice effect for the price sensitive and early planners like myself who actually save a few bucks. I assume that any increases increase incrementally in the higher fare buckets.
Have not checked the LD trains whose prices I can recall easily or sleeper buckets I can recall easily to see how these are affected, but I will and likely report back.
EDIT
Did a little more checking and for the most part, the fare changes are fairly modest. Did find a third bucket PHL-BAL fare that used to be $61 is now $64. (now making it 4 dollars CHEAPER for me to book the Crescent or Silver Meteor back from Philly and then BUY another Amtrak ticket from WAS to BAL.)
I can see my rides on the Pennsylvanian may have ended however, Amtrak totally disrupted the hiccup that priced a BAL-PHL-PGH ticket as low as $42 - the lowest is now $82 for the same ticket - the BAL-WAS-PGH ride via the CL is still as low as $45 though.
Sleeper fares appear untouched - the low bucket on the Capitol Limited WAS-CHI is still $114 for a Roomette. phew!!!!
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