Amtrak is revamping its cellular app to incorporate extra useful options like making it simpler to search for schedule modifications and monitor your practice’s development from station to station. The modifications come as Amtrak campaigns to draw clients and encourage them to journey by practice as an alternative of vehicles and planes.
Amtrak’s app already helped riders plan their experience, buy tickets, show eTickets, handle Amtrak Visitor Rewards, and extra. Now, the brand new app shows practice standing and schedule modifications 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) can even 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 data and messages. And its new My Journeys tab offers simpler viewing of lively journeys and allows you to leap to approaching or previous ones. Lastly, you may modify a part of your journey via the app, making journey changes simpler “whereas preserving one of the best out there fares.”
In all, the app “seems to be so much cleaner” and “scrolls smoother,” in line with my sister, who typically rides on Amtrak. The brand new app replace is on the market now on iOS and Android.