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Old Jun 2, 2014 | 9:34 am
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Originally Posted by stewardo
Unfortunately Eurostar runs airline-style pricing so the cheaper tickets generally sell out well in advance of travel...
Indeed; the reservation system they use was designed by the Sabre (American Airlines sold that division in 2000) engineers as a knock-off redesigned for rail applications. The Reserail and Sabre systems were designed to work using the same yield management principles.
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