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** (1) Earlier about 10% seats were sold by IR at the last minute under tatkal scheme with approx 30% of base fare charged extra.
(2) Also Premium tatkal scheme was also introduced in popular trains where in a fraction of seats were sold at many times the normal price.
(3) Also trains were introduced under special category where 100% seats were charged more than normal fare may be around 130% of normal fare
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Also Suvidha trains were introduced again fare being very high and a fraction of tickets being multiple times the normal fare
(5) Flexifare where about only 10% seats were sold at normal rate and 50% seats were charged 50% extra. Rest 40% seats sold at 10%,20%,30% & 40% extra fare
** As a result a large number of seats were going vacant in the flexifare Rajdhani/Shatabdi trains which used to have perennial waiting lists in pre-Flexifare era.
** All the gimmickries were done by IR to imitate Airline operators who are commercially smart and ensure maximum occupancy as well as revenue by offering heavy discounts to last minute passengers if seats are not booked. IR on the other hand continued to operate flexifare trains at much lower occupancies (then it used to be).
** What IR has introduced is not dynamic/Flexifare but a graded price increase due to which a large number of paxs could not do their journey as they cannot afford flexifares. This is wastage of national resource (transportation capacity) by IR
* Being a Govt organisation operating with public funding, IR has accountability towards public/ tax-payer of India who indirectly is owner of and funds IR. Such acts of IR does not justify the monopoly status it currently enjoys.