Not common in the UK where this seat reservation ticket is from.
Comment on This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 2 days ago
Seems reasonable enough to me if you bought a ticket for a train which doesn’t have assigned seating, which is pretty common. Just choose your seat as you board the same way you would with a bus.
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Jrockwar@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Yeah but why even give you the checkbox/option for reserving a seat, only to tell you that you might actually be standing if the train is full or you don’t arrive early enough?
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I suspect the sales website can’t actually reserve seats itself, but just passes along the request to some other system which enters the “LOL, NO!” into the system for a train that was long-since fully booked.