Revenue was up 11% YOY. That’s a pretty big jump. Sounds like Amtrak’s marketing group was pricing w.r.t. capacity and demand. Somebody was paying attention!
Interesting fact was Acela accounts for 53% of all Amtrak revenue. Amazing. A mere 20 train sets of equipment.
What does that say?
that equipment utilization is key?
that being able to sell into the air competitive business market is key?
we need more high speed corridor service?
that Acela is a freak mountain in the desert of passenger rail?
Not sure where your figures are coming from, but according to the Amtrak page, the Acela and Metroliner services combined make up about 45% of the Northeast Corridor revenue, not the overall Amtrak revenue. The two services combined make up about 24% of the overall Amtrak revenue
Amtrak’s numbers don’t split the Acela and Metroliner service revenue, a lot more than 20 trainsets. Essentially, they’re the express in the NEC. What’s known as the Regional Service used to be called the Locals or the All-Stops type trains
That’s not right. The Metroliner service was only a few trains a day - a couple of train sets - in the past fiscal year and all those schedules are now covered by Acela train sets. So, all of what was Acela + Metroliner is now Acela covered by the 20 train sets.