{"id":34812,"date":"2018-10-31T13:25:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34812"},"modified":"2018-10-31T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:55:37","slug":"premium-trains-run-with-empty-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/premium-trains-run-with-empty-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Premium trains run with empty seats:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/premium-trains-run-with-empty-seats\/article19787882.ece\">Premium trains run with empty seats<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Railway minister piyush goyal announce reviewing of flexi fares scheme by public transporter<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Flexi fare scheme<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Came into effect on september 2016<\/li>\n<li>First 10% of the seat is booked at the regular fare. thereafter , the fare increases by 10% with every 10% of the seats booked<\/li>\n<li>Not applicable for 1st class AC and executive class<\/li>\n<li>Applicable to all premium trains (Rajdhani, shatabdi and durunto express)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Impact<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Train fare cost more than the flight therefore passenger are choosing flight.<\/li>\n<li>Almost 30% of the train seats remain vacant on any given day.<\/li>\n<li>Even though premium trains runs with vacant seats railway revenue has increase by Rs.500cr.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premium trains run with empty seats: Context Railway minister piyush goyal announce reviewing of flexi fares scheme by public transporter About Flexi fare scheme Came into effect on september 2016 First 10% of the seat is booked at the regular fare. thereafter , the fare increases by 10% with every 10% of the seats booked&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/premium-trains-run-with-empty-seats\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Premium trains run with empty seats:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704801608},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}