Post your fare basis
Feb 18, 2012, 9:32 pm
#1
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Post your fare basis
Just curious how many different types of fare basis codes are out there.
On the lower-left hand of your ticket receipt/stub is a four-character code. This is the fare basis (or fare plan). Which have you encountered?
My last couple of trips consisted of:
DOAE - Acela Express low bucket
(assuming there's also a COAE, BOAE, AOAE, and one for top bucket...KOAE?)
EO8N - 14-day NE Regional sale fare
First letter is the bucket, second designates one-way vs round-trip, and the last two may have been standardized in the past but appear more flexibly used today.
What's on your ticket stub?
On the lower-left hand of your ticket receipt/stub is a four-character code. This is the fare basis (or fare plan). Which have you encountered?
My last couple of trips consisted of:
DOAE - Acela Express low bucket
(assuming there's also a COAE, BOAE, AOAE, and one for top bucket...KOAE?)
EO8N - 14-day NE Regional sale fare
First letter is the bucket, second designates one-way vs round-trip, and the last two may have been standardized in the past but appear more flexibly used today.
What's on your ticket stub?
Feb 24, 2012, 11:12 pm
#2
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What? No one wants to play? Four character code, about 3 lines up from the lower left of the ticket stub--that's all I ask for.
I recently saw a ZOGE on a neighbor's Acela receipt. There's a Z bucket??
I recently saw a ZOGE on a neighbor's Acela receipt. There's a Z bucket??
Feb 25, 2012, 2:00 am
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Alright, I'll play. 
This isn't strictly true in some cases. Here are most of the fare bases I've had over the past couple years.
BOF1 - Long-distance coach B bucket
BOF2 - Long-distance coach D bucket
DOAE - Acela Express business D bucket
DOF1 - Long-distance train and Thruway (multiple classes and buckets)
EDIT: This post was much longer. Not sure how my work got lost.
This isn't strictly true in some cases. Here are most of the fare bases I've had over the past couple years.
BOF1 - Long-distance coach B bucket
BOF2 - Long-distance coach D bucket
DOAE - Acela Express business D bucket
DOF1 - Long-distance train and Thruway (multiple classes and buckets)
EDIT: This post was much longer. Not sure how my work got lost.
Last edited by GoAmtrak; Feb 25, 2012 at 5:36 pm Reason: missing post
Feb 26, 2012, 7:31 pm
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Quite oddly, I got two tickets by mail when I was only expecting one. Must've accidentally hit something on the PHL-NYP one, which kinda sucks because that's the one I was planning on refunding (it was my backup). Ah, well, I'll just have to use Amtrak again.
Anyway, here are the tickets sitting in my drawer:
DOF1--Keystone (Downingtown to NYP)
E08N--Regional 14-day sale (PHL-NYP)
Anyway, here are the tickets sitting in my drawer:
DOF1--Keystone (Downingtown to NYP)
E08N--Regional 14-day sale (PHL-NYP)
Mar 9, 2012, 12:42 pm
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BOF1: NYP to NHV, regional Biz (no advance)
COAE: NYP to NHV, Acela Express First (purchased 2 wks in advance)
YOFC: NHV to NYP, regional Biz (no advance)
I don't think any of the above had advance purchase, although I'm not sure.
COAE: NYP to NHV, Acela Express First (purchased 2 wks in advance)
YOFC: NHV to NYP, regional Biz (no advance)
I don't think any of the above had advance purchase, although I'm not sure.