HI All,
Hope it will be very usefull to all.
GNWL = General quota waitlist
The General quota is for passengers travelling the full length (or most of the
way) of the train's journey, and the General quota is usually the largest quota.
RLWL = Remote Location quota waitlist
On long distance trains, some stations along the route will be designated
Remote Location stations, these will be big stations, and mostly where the
train will call at the chosen station (and at the destination station) at
popular times, it may also be a station that many people will book to (from the
originating station), and this can mean that many seats/berths will become
available at the remote location station.
Remote Location stations prepare their own reservation chart 2-4 hours before
the train is due to arrive/depart from that station, or the evening before in
the case of late/very early departures.
RQWL = Request Quota waitlist
Let me give an example (and this is off the top of my head, so unlikely to be a
real example).
Let’s say that Dound Jn is allowed 2 Sleeper Class berths on the
Mumbai-Bangalore Udyan Express, and these berths are booked, the next person
who wants to travel to Bangalore on the same train has to join a Request Quota
waitlist, this waitlist will only improve if a person books a Mumbai-Dound
ticket from one of the larger quotas, this would leave the seat vacant from
Daund, so would allow another person to board at Dound.
So in theory, the person is requesting a berth in case anyone happens to be
getting off at Dound.
(the ‘ping’ from the microwave oven tells me my sticky toffee pudding is ready,
damn, it’s too hot, I’ll leave it for 10 minutes to cool down)
PQWL = Pooled Quota waitlist
Pooled Quota is basically anything not covered by the other quotas, though the
General ad Remote Location quotas take up most berths. (and lately the Tatkal
quota).
Pooled quota can include (though not always) Originating station to
intermediate station, Intermediate to intermediate, and intermediate to
destination station (though it would be separate from remote location quotas).
CKWL = Tatkal quota waitlist
Tatkal quota is just for last chance bookings and in most cases, can only be
booked from originating station to destination station, though you can change
the boarding station.
(a strange noise draws me to the kitchen, the noise gets louder as I get
nearer, "eat me", "eat me", "eat me", it seems to be coming from my sticky
toffee pudding )
How fast will the waitlist move?
It’s not easy to predict, and can be different for every train, even trains on
the same route.
The first thing a person needs to find out is how many berths are used for that
class on that train between the 2 selected stations, to do this, a person needs
to check availability for 90 days ahead.
GNWL = General quota waitlist
I’d be unlikely to accept a waitlisted ticket that’s more than 25-30% of the
total general quota, even 90 days ahead, and as the time goes down, the
acceptable waitlist number comes down, though 10% of the total general quota
can still be good even a week before the train.
RLWL = Remote Location quota waitlist
Same as general quota, but total berths available is likely to be a lot less.
RQWL = Request Quota waitlist
It really depends on the train, and the total number of berths used, but in
most cases, I probably wouldn’t want a waitlisted ticket.
PQWL = Pooled Quota waitlist
Total berths used for EXACT same train, class and pair of stations is essential
info for the pooled quota waitlist, it can be as low as 2 berths, so even a
PQWL 1 ticket would be very unlikely to become confirmed, a very tricky
waitlist to predict, so a waitlist that’s best avoided in most cases.
CKWL = Tatkal quota waitlist
Always tricky, mainly because the tickets are booked only 5 days before the
train will depart, and because the cancellation fees for confirmed tickets are
higher than other quotas, so there’s less chance of cancellations, also,
there’s no other quotas (foreign tourist quota , VIP quota , Military quota
etc.) can come to the rescue of waitlisted passengers (if quotas remain unsold).
FAQ's
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1) Confirmed passengers from general quota canceling their tickets (ticket -
from source to destination of train) This will reduce the general quota
waitlist.
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2) Confirmed passengers from general quota canceling their tickets (ticket from
intermediate station to destination of train) If the intermediate station is
close to the originating station, there’s a chance that the ticket will be from
the general quota, so a cancellation would reduce the general quota waitlist.
The intermediate station may be a designated remote location station, if so, a
cancellation would reduce the RLWL.
Or the ticket could be a pooled quota ticket, so a cancellation would reduce
the PQWL.
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3) Confirmed passengers from remote quota canceling their tickets . This would
reduce the RLWL.
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4) Confirmed passengers from pooled quota canceling their tickets . This would
reduce the PQWL.
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5) Confirmed passengers from Tatkal quota canceling their tickets. This would
reduce the Tatkal quota waitlist.
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6) If there are empty berths in specific quota while preparing reservation
chart ( e.g. foreign tourist quota , VIP quota , Military quota etc. to whom
these berths will be alloted ?) These would be used to reduce the General
quota waitlist.
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7) Also if there's vacancy in a particular general/remote/pooled quota while
preparing reservation chart ... then how this will be used to reduce wait list
& how these berths will be alloted ? All waitlists will need cancellations
from their own quotas to improve, however, if there’s availability in the
general quota, it can sometimes be used to reduce the pooled quota waitlist.
VSP, what happens to unused Tatkal berths, are they used to reduce the general
waitlist?
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8) Class upgradation : Exactly which passengers (GN,PQ,RQ,Tatkal) are eligible
for free class upgradation ? How this system works ? Once passenger been
upgraded to higher class to whom his earlier berth will be alloted ? This only
happens if there is availability in the higher class, and a waitlist (general)
in the lower class, the berth left vacant after a passenger has been upgraded
would be used to reduce the general waitlist.
I don’t know if these free upgrades also happen at remote location stations or
Tatkal quota bookings, I can think of no reason why they shouldn’t, VSP, do you
know?
Ur's
M.K.
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