Tickets are probably the costliest expenditure on an entire trip. The more luxury and services you want, the more money you have to spend on booking a ticket. But did you know that you can upgrade your sleeper class train ticket to 3AC on the Indian railway without spending a single penny? Sounds a bit surprising, right? Let us take you through this journey of upgrading train tickets and the process behind this.
Upgrade Your Sleeper Class Train Ticket To 3AC And From 3AC Class To 2 AC
Indian railways have launched a system to upgrade your sleeper class train ticket to 3AC, and from 3AC class to 2 AC. People using IRCTC might be aware of this system. IRCTC offers this chance of ticket up-gradation to all of their customers during the time of booking tickets only on their own website. The reason behind initiating this system is to fully use all the available and remaining seats on the train. This method is actually a great way to fill the vacant berths by offering the upgrade to their passengers, without any additional charges. In addition to this, it also eases the process for the waitlisted people to get their confirmed tickets.
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How To Upgrade Hour Sleeper Class Train Ticket To 3AC?
While applying for auto up-gradation to the next upper-class seat, you need to tick the checkbox of auto up-gradation during booking your tickets online. The Passenger Reservation System (PRS) processes this entire up-gradation system and the chart preparation. It is totally in the hands of the PRS and no one else from the railways can interfere in this process.
This method of chart preparation and auto-up-gradation is actually computer-generated and works on the basis of vacant seats in the next upper class. The system chooses the passengers and upgrades their tickets randomly while preparing the reservation charts. If the passenger needs to cancel the upgraded tickets, they will be paid the price of the original ticket and not the upgraded one.
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Things To Keep In Mind While Upgrading
- One can upgrade their tickets to the upper class only if the seats in the upper class are available. No vacancy simply depicts no up-gradation.
- The chances of upgrading tickets are more during the off-seasons.
- One crucial point to keep in mind if you want to upgrade is that book your ticket at least 20 days prior to your journey date.
- This entire process will only work if you are upgrading to the next level; only one upper level.
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