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Take a look: only three trips, for starters...imagine first leaves too early & last arrives too late--you're screwed! Customer-hostile farespic.twitter.com/0ewdyPGTly
It's what airlines do though. To try to level out the peaks a little.
These aren't airplanes though...mitigate peak demand on trains by increasing frequency/volume not by playing with prices
Train trips tend to be daily, local, spontaneous affairs, vs air travel which is rarer, goes further, and is likely planned in advance
I don't want a pre-booked railway either, but we are talking about intercity not regional or commuter trains. They aren't so spontaneous.
but they're gonna use the same tracks and stations for the most part, might as well standardize ticketing practices
Then you just end up with hideously overcrowded peak time trains, or the rolling stock and infrastructure are too expensive to maintain.
I'm sorry, weren't we talking about intercity not regional or commuter trains?
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