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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCrescent" data-source="post: 958749" data-attributes="member: 28608">I don’t know if demand is there for more roomettes at Amtrak’s current pricing.  I do know that there is unmet demand for the following:1. A small number of very high-end rooms.  If Iowa Pacific could fill a few attached to the City of New Orleans, Amtrak could on its long-distance trains.2. “Cabins for One,” as Via and other railroads offer them, and I would pay for one.3. A budget coach accommodation (surely at least some bus passengers would go for something like a commuter coach attached to Amtrak trains, at a lower price than regular coach.Given railroads’ large overhead, and how close Amtrak has come to breaking even with a load factor of about 60%, it’s clear that one path to profitability is simply filling more seats and rooms.  The marginal cost of each is low.Airlines differentiate on pricing and product between a wide variety of customers, and niche segmentation helps them maximize revenues. Amtrak should do the same.My American Airlines app shows 7 tickets already booked for my travel for the next 6 weeks.  Amtrak could have gotten each of those trips if it simply offered a product that better matched my needs, instead of offering either a product that is too far  below (coach) or too far above (roomette, priced for 2 people even though I’m traveling solo).</blockquote>

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