Amtrak is revamping its cellular app to incorporate extra useful options like making it simpler to search for schedule adjustments and monitor your prepare’s development from station to station. The adjustments come as Amtrak campaigns to draw clients and encourage them to journey by prepare as a substitute of automobiles and planes.
Amtrak’s app already helped riders plan their trip, buy tickets, show eTickets, handle Amtrak Visitor Rewards, and extra. Now, the brand new app shows prepare standing and schedule adjustments proper on the reservation display (inside 24 hours of the journey) so it’s simpler to search out. Riders on enterprise class like Acela (or different assigned seating trains) may also now use the app to decide on most popular seating in the course of the reserving course of.
Based mostly on buyer suggestions, Amtrak additionally up to date the homescreen to separate tickets from advertising and marketing data and messages. And its new My Journeys tab gives simpler viewing of lively journeys and allows you to bounce to imminent or previous ones. Lastly, you possibly can modify a part of your journey by means of the app, making journey changes simpler “whereas holding the most effective out there fares.”
In all, the app “seems to be quite a bit cleaner” and “scrolls smoother,” in accordance with my sister, who typically rides on Amtrak. The brand new app replace is offered now on iOS and Android.
