Originally Posted by
nerd
Well, it's not illegal, at least not in the eyes of the law...
But still, an interesting story. I've done it myself (multiple tickets for the same day) with no problem, and also have never seen anyone reporting getting flagged in this way.
Anything special you were doing, or did you simply get flagged by chance?
I don't mean illegal from a civil law perspective, I mean against Amtrak rules, or at least I assumed so given the phone call I got. This happened recently so I still have the message on my phone if anybody wants me to post it
I think the difference between the time I got "caught" and the time I didn't was that when I got caught I was double booked for a trip happening in the next 5-7 days, whereas the other time I remember doing the 2nd booking 1 day out. Theory is that if they have time they'll find it and get you to cancel one. I agree it's probably easy to get around this if you want to not enter your AGR # or morph your name in different ways.