” UZ ” reported a monthly income of 3 thousand. Additional tickets after reducing the number of seats in trains, railroad booked for the purpose.
Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – September 09, 2021 – Transportation
Ukrzaliznytsia has reduced the number of seats on trains reserved for railway workers. Due to this, 3,000 additional tickets will go on sale every month, “the statement reads.
It is noted that in one of the trains the reservation was canceled altogether – the reserved seats were not used. In nine trains the number of reserved seats was reduced by half, and in three – by a quarter.
Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, the head of the UZ passenger section, named the trains for which additional tickets will appear.
Almost 3,000 tickets are a small percentage compared to the number that Ukrzaliznytsia sells monthly, but passengers of flights ? 738 Kyiv – Zaporizhia, ? 7/8 Kyiv – Chernivtsi, ? 82 Novooleksiyivka – Kharkiv and ten more will feel this change, “he wrote.
UZ reported that previously the seats that remained for business trips and were not purchased were sold for free before the train left.
“However, passengers often did not have time to buy them, respectively, the railway lost profits,” – added in the company.
Ukrzaliznytsia recently launched an additional electric train from Nizhyn to Kyiv and back. The new electric train has 8 cars and will run on weekdays.
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Source: Ukrgate
