The occupancy of the train started to dip gradually from Feb 20 towards Secunderabad after initial one month. In Feb for then last week Monday is full but rest days used to see 200 seats going empty end to end but Vskp VjA alloted seats of 200 and RJY 71 seats are full. In March Mondays used to run full on Mondays but rest 5days 300+ seats are empty and worst is on 21 st March with 550 empty from Vskp to SC there are only 250 seats. Coming to April the same trend repeated but what more surprising is last 2 weekends with 3 holidays failed to attract travellers on Friday and Monday and 200-300 seats are left out. For today occupancy is Vskp Vja 170 RJY SC 70 Vja To SC 110 Vskp to SC 290. The same is the case with Uday exp too from March. When VB...
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used to run full in Jan 20 to FeB 20 Uday used to have 500-600 bookings. In Andhra pradesh Hyderabad/Bengaluru sector marriage season play a pivotal role in travel occupancy be it train or bus and will pickup from May 1st till June 20 again 2 months of offseason will come for AC classes till Aug 20. Lack of marriages will effect AC travel the most. The initial craze and first timers, feel travel experience of VB has got good occupancy in Jan Feb and now from March the real occupancy started and this will be trend in future. The advance bookings are also less when checked on Sunday for the last two weeks 300 seats used to fill and max booking just before the day or 2 days of journey.