How does Amtrak ticket pricing work?
Tickets on Amtrak for a short distance trip (100 miles, 2.9 hours) can vary a lot, from $19 to $45.
I found out how this works a while ago, and it made the pricing make sense.
Amtrak sells their tickets in groups, a former employee described it like buckets: The buckets have a certain amount of tickets in them depending on how many people that particular train can hold. Amtrak sells the tickets cheap at first, and as the train gets full, the tickets will cost more and more. Once all the $19 tickets are gone, it moves to $25, and $29, and $35 and finally up to $45 until it is full.
This is Amtrak’s way of preventing the trains from getting too full.
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