1) It took 3 hours to book to & fro Bangalore(YPR) - Secunderabad(SC) and Kacheguda(KCG) - Bangalore(SBC) booking!
Indeed very pathetic. The IRCTC web site behaviour was so erratic, abnormal delays to log in, abnormal delays to enter station code; abonormal delays to show up availability; abnormal delays to show up to enter name of Passengers, payment page & payment option; etc. and then to utter frustration the message that reads: "Connection problem"!!!!
2) With Lower birth preference for Senior Citizens, for two Senior Citizens of 66 and 73 years, finally after...
more... frustrating experience, with 455 seats/births available for booking on Garibh Rath of 5th November to Secunderabad, we don't get Lower births for both and with 49 seats/births available on Bangalore Express of 7th November to Bangalore (SBC) we get Upper Births!!!!
The IRCTC reservation system does not seem to Senior Citizens' friendly!!!!
Why not IRCTC take a relook at this problem????
Further, why not IRCTC stagger the normal booking to open for half the Railway Zones at 8:00 Hrs and the rest at 9:30 Hrs. Similarly, for Tatkal booking to open for half the railway Zones at 10:00 and the rest at 10:30 Hrs????
I assume somebody in IRCTC reads these Posts????