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It depends, when you buy the tickets 3 month in advance, it can be really competitive. On short-notice trips, it's often too expensive indeed.
by boudin 7y ago
It depends, when you buy the tickets 3 month in advance, it can be really competitive. On short-notice trips, it's often too expensive indeed.
- BeniBoy 7y agoI hope they wouldn't use those agressive algorithm for dynamic pricing. This is a public service, have a static pricing! This turns the train into a luxury, at times almost three times as expensive as air travel.
- pathseeker 7y agostatic pricing leads to sold out seats and poor planning by customers. It negates the ability to add capacity in advance for busy times and leads to poor efficiency overall (even completely ignoring the inconvenience of being stranded to passengers).
- BeniBoy 7y agoTrue, my point of view might not take everything into account, but for trains, the ability to add capacity is limited, mostly constrained by tracks leased time. For the train I take to go back home, the price varies between 35€ and 220€. This is excessive! And not much better than sold-out seats..