third ac coaches should be maximised so as to facilitate ac travel to more and more people and reduction in the passenger business subsidy borne by IR.
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It would be nice if IR a new jan-ACIII tier coach which should be just an air conditioned version of IISL and with fare reasonably fixed (with an aim of no-profit no-loss) between 160% to 175% of IISL fare (without bedding charges).
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more... Almost half of the SL pax may switch over to this class resulting in a drastic reduction in pax business subsidy as losses from SL class is maximum.
(2) Large number of paxs shall enjoy dust free comfortable ac travel
(3) A large number of high speed (130/160kmph) fully ac trains could be operated and avg speed of trains would become substantially higher.
(4) Infact a Jan-Rajdhani having large number of jan-ACIII coaches can be operated just behind each Rajdhani/ Duronto/ other prestigious trains.