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Ironically, the recent Channel 5 program about Paddington/GWR showed that booking a seat doesn't even guarantee you getting on the train - let alone getting a seat.
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Fares based on encouraging travel to fill up empty seats
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This sort of scheme got rid of all the empty coach class seats which has made flying unpleasant.
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Surely people would eventually catch on, resulting in most trains being mostly unbooked until the last moment?
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How will this work? Currently you don't need to book a seat to travel, so how will the TOCs know if the train is going to be full?
Ironically, the recent Channel 5 program about Paddington/GWR showed that booking a seat doesn't even guarantee you getting on the train - let alone getting a seat. |
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One of the problems is that one persons intercity train is another persons commuter train. For example, Edinburgh to London is generally a trip that some will happily book a specific seat on. However that some train will have sections which people treat as turn up and go - e.g York to Doncaster, Peterborough to London etc. This means a one size fits all airline model of filling seats with pre-bookings does not work very well.
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