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I did this exercise a few months ago as well. But was compelled to do so again as now a days I see many blogs criticizing this train due in NDLS-CDG sector being given a Tejas train. I went through the availability and i see that 12046 is booked more than 50% for today and today is a working weekday. Even the next 5 runs have a fairly good booking and by the time trains start their journey I am sure it will run with more than 60% occupancy. So in this time of flexi fare in Shatabdi and non peak winter season i think this train is doing considerably well. ( to calculate the % I considered 569 seats available for booking in general quota and 702 seats in total. % is calculated only for CC as EC seems to be 100% full for most of the days). For...
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12045, I see that occupancy is low. I willa nalyze it in evening when train is about to start its journey
1 20-12-2016 AVAILABLE 189 AVAILABLE 5 54.1%
2 21-12-2016 AVAILABLE 330 GNWL22/WL11 34.0%
3 22-12-2016 AVAILABLE 271 GNWL26/WL10 42.4%
4 23-12-2016 AVAILABLE 285 GNWL18/WL11 40.4%
5 24-12-2016 AVAILABLE 104 GNWL28/WL18 66.2%
6 26-12-2016 AVAILABLE 262 GNWL16/WL8 43.7%
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1 20-12-2016 AVAILABLE 447 GNWL2/WL2 17.3%
2 21-12-2016 AVAILABLE 475 GNWL1/WL1 13.4%
3 22-12-2016 AVAILABLE 491 AVAILABLE 12 11.1%
4 23-12-2016 AVAILABLE 249 GNWL18/WL2 45.5%
5 24-12-2016 AVAILABLE 508 AVAILABLE 7 8.6%
6 26-12-2016 AVAILABLE 550 AVAILABLE 19 2.7%