Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
My data is from over a half decade ago, so could have changed since. Amtrak worked on a bucket approach for ticket pricing on the long distance trains, the first bucket of tickets were cheap, when they sold out the next batch of tickets cost more, but when sold out the third bucket of tickets cost even more.
Believe it still works that way. I’ve made reservations where the lowest price fare was no longer available. Had to pay more for the same class of seat.