Comment on This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats

apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• tiramichu@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In the UK where this ticket is from, if you buy a ticket from the machine in the station it will spit it out in potentially multiple parts.

  You can see this ticket says “Valid only with Travel Ticket”, which means this is the second of two parts. The " Travel Ticket" (not pictured) is the one that actually allows you to travel on the train, and the reservation part (pictured) is the one that gives you a seat.

  So the mystery isn’t that there is no reservation, but that this ticket doesn’t even need to exist without a reservation. The machine could have just not printed this ticket at all.

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  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thanks for the clarification!

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I suspect it’s an “Advance” reduced fare ticket, which is only ever valid with a seat reservation, but either the seat was over specified (ticking all three of facing forwards, table seat, near the entrance, for example), or the train company continued to issue “Advance” tickets even after all the reservable seats are gone, which you could count as a dick move, or you could interpret as allowing more people to buy tickets at the reduced fare.

    It could be that that was one of the least overcrowded trains scheduled on a day that’s expected to be very overcrowded indeed, and they’re trying to spread the no standing room pain across as many trains as possible. It’s certainly cheaper than putting on additional services.

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