Dynamic Pricing Indian Railways

Tatkal tickets: Booking Premium Tatkal (PT) ticket is much costlier than Tatkal due to dynamic fare pricing.

IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation) offers a quota of 'Premium Tatkal' for online ticket bookings on its official website- irctc.co.in and app. Premium Tatkal tickets were introduced with dynamic fare pricing by Indian Railways. According to IRCTC, dynamic fare stands for the fare component which may be increased with the subseq...

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has asked a committee, set up to review the flexi-fare scheme, to go back to the drawing board and draft a fresh report after it suggested introducing dynamic pricing, like airlines, in the railways, officials said.

Wary passengers who logged on to the Indian Railways booking website today morning expecting a jump in ticket prices were in for a pleasant surprise. Fares of premier trains like the Rajdhani and the Shatabdi remained largely unchanged despite dynamic pricing being enforced from today.

In a move that could be described as "festival dampener", the rates of the tatkal tickets will go up with the Railways deciding to sell 50 per cent of these tickets in selected trains using dynamic fare system.

Tatkal tickets: Booking Premium Tatkal (PT) ticket is much costlier than Tatkal due to dynamic fare pricing.

IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation) offers a quota of 'Premium Tatkal' for online ticket bookings on its official website- irctc.co.in and app. Premium Tatkal tickets were introduced with dynamic fare pricing by Indian Railways. According to IRCTC, dynamic fare stands for the fare component which may be increased with the subseq...

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has asked a committee, set up to review the flexi-fare scheme, to go back to the drawing board and draft a fresh report after it suggested introducing dynamic pricing, like airlines, in the railways, officials said.

Wary passengers who logged on to the Indian Railways booking website today morning expecting a jump in ticket prices were in for a pleasant surprise. Fares of premier trains like the Rajdhani and the Shatabdi remained largely unchanged despite dynamic pricing being enforced from today.

In a move that could be described as "festival dampener", the rates of the tatkal tickets will go up with the Railways deciding to sell 50 per cent of these tickets in selected trains using dynamic fare system.