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Some airlines are allowing changes and cancellations at no charge - usually resulting in a credit that expires in a year from initial booking. However, some airlines may be more lenient or more strict than that. I've also seen a few airlines offer fully refundable tickets for a small premium...

Just saw this on Twitter: Hopefully the pedestrian was not killed in the incident.

Noticing this as well. I abhor this change - I wouldn't use it much, but it was really nice to be able to do a stopover in Milwaukee to/from Chicago for a few hours. I also did this once on the NEC where I was able to get the through WAS - BOS fare while doing sub-24 hour stopovers in PHL and...

The email I received suggested it's available on all Amtrak services - so those on the corridors could also use it. Disappointed it's such a short window of time to use it (can't use it on trips past the 30th) but still might be able to get a weekend trip booked somewhere.

Or Amtrak has changed their process for the latest round of cuts, possibly even based on (gasp!) customer feedback. Complaints are always going to skew towards those most negatively affected, so if Amtrak was getting a lot of complaints from people who booked many months out, they may have...

There appears to be a twice-a-day bus between Normal, IL and Chicago. In Chicago it'll pick up/drop off at both O'Hare and Midway airports (Midway 1x/day,) and it looks like they do a pickup at the Uptown Transit Station in Normal along with sometimes doing a pickup at Watterson Commons (at the...

There's milk on the national café menu. Guess the corridor is too fancy for milk. ;)

It looks like the new long distance cafe car menu is differently updated as well. There at least seems to be a few more options, and some pricing has went down (although the cheese and cracker tray went up to $6.75.) Looks like there's a bit more variety, though, which will be nice...

At least with the airlines there's usually options for rerouting that don't add multiple days, and once you're on board the equipment generally works okay (and if it doesn't it's a couple of hours instead of multiple days.) HVAC issues on my last Amtrak trip (in coach) mixed with all the other...

Need a subcontractor with the requisite skills and training to do that. Probably easier to hire internally than to subcontract it out to a competent company! Amtrak, like most transportation companies, needs to get their labor situation in order and staffed back to pre-pandemic levels. People...

Feel free to call the police every time you suspect someone is fare evading. However, make sure to also do so for every other transportation crime that's committed. Someone going 1mph over the speed limit? Call the police! Rolling through a stop sign? Call the police! Expired registration? Call...

My understanding is that the "see something say something" has little to do with fare evaders and more people watching out for suspicious activity that may lead to significant violence. I would hope that agencies aren't expecting patrons to call the police over every turnstile jumper!

Also to Rail Passengers Association members.

There's multiple - one 5 and one 6 leave each day from their endpoints, and since the run is longer than 24 hours there'll be multiple of each under normal operation. I'm not sure how many total there are - they might've tried to slim it down to 5 train sets total but I'm not privy enough to...

Or I'll just fly first class (often cheaper,) buy two seats on an airline (which is allowed especially for passengers of size,) or take Flixbus which explicitly has an option to buy two seats. I've also had luck buying two seats on Megabus and keeping them for myself even on a full bus...

This comes back to my initial question - what's the purpose of the trip? Yes, most people fly because it's faster, but that's also because that extra speed is worth missing out seeing scenery at ground level. There's also the enjoyment of seeing a birds-eye view of the world (there's still a lot...

What's the goal for your whole-country trip? Train travel is decent for certain kinds of travel, and not so good for other kinds. If the goal of this trip is to see the natural beauty of America, see the varied landscapes across the country, and see a small slice of America via train...

There's no other real way to get AGR points via credit card spend other than the BoA card currently. As far as I'm aware there's no program that transfers into AGR; certainly no credit cards or airlines. You could hop through the Choice Hotels program if you can get points into there, but the...

So far my longest has only been MSP - ANC - about six hours long. I have planned an AMS - MSP flight for next year which will become my longest, although even that's only clocked in around 9 hours. All in economy currently - and the MSP - ANC six hour flight was in a 737-900ER! No special...

In a big city this is almost never a problem. By the time the bar close rush slows down the early morning flight rides start picking up, and many drivers are aware of this and work overnights for that reason. Surge pricing might be a problem, but there almost certainly will be drivers available...