Following is the earliest reservation availability dates at abot 15:30 hrs on 20.5.17 in 7 pairs of HS introduced so far.
12503-Bengaluru Cantt. - Kamakhya Humsafar Express (Weekly)- 2 june
12504-Kamakhya - Bengaluru Cantt. Humsafar Express (Weekly)- 16 june
12595/Gorakhpur - Anand Vihar Terminal Humsafar Express (Via Basti) Biweekly- 23 may
12596/Anand...
more... Vihar Terminal - Gorakhpur Humsafar Express (Via Basti) Biweekly- 7 june
12571/Gorakhpur - Anand Vihar Terminal Humsafar Express (Via Barhni) weekly- 28may
12572/Anand Vihar Terminal - Gorakhpur Humsafar Express (Via Barhni) 29may
22867/Durg - Hazrat Nizamuddin HumSafar Express Biweekly 30 may
22868/Hazrat Nizamuddin - Durg HumSafar Express Biweekly- 31 may/7june (3june-RAC)
22887/Howrah - Yesvantpur HumSafar Express (PT) Weekly- 6 june
22888/Yesvantpur - Howrah HumSafar Express Weekly- 8June
22919/Chennai Central - Ahmedabad HumSafar Superfast Express- 24 may
22920/Ahmedabad - Chennai Central HumSafar Express Weekly - 5 june
14715/Sri Ganganagar - Tiruchchirappalli HumSafar Express weekly - 6 june
14716/Tiruchchirapalli - Sriganganagar HumSafar Express weekly 25 may
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Above shows that all the HS seats are sold out in 12 cases and the reservation is available in the next train in only 2 cases- MAS-ADI(24 may), And TPJ-SGNR (25 may) which too are likely to be sold out by the time of departure.
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Keeping in view the flexifare adopted for HS trains where 50% seats are sold at normal fare and rest of the seats sold at an avg fare 128% above the normal ACIII fare, None of the HS can be said to be flop. They are in fact highly successful trains with pretty large number of coaches, running with 100% occupancy, giving 14% higher revenue to IR than normal fully ACIII train, and give maximum profit to IR as all the pax travel in ACIII class which is the only profit giving passenger class to IR.
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However All the HS can be run with 21/22 LHB AC coaches, by augmenting them with ACII class coaches to get more paxs, as many rich paxs feel suffocated in ACIII class and travel only in ACII class.
