0		IRCTC, sucks!, Try, Thomas, Cook.in

We all at some point of time have booked our train tickets via IRCTC website. May be we have given it to concierge desk and they have done it for us. My guess is they would be using IRCTC internally. Gone are the days of waiting in the queue with the registration form (not properly filled) and the guy sitting at the counter staring at you at the sins you have committed (not filling the form properly) and returning the form. Now that’s so 1999. Come 2000+ we have a brand new website by the Indian Railways to facilitate the ticket book. That is just incredible. I never would have thought this would have happened. We thought, that is a quantum leap forward.

As always with any system the IRCTC website is pretty slow, does not respond and sucks a lot of time out of you. But, you have settled for it because of the lack of options and its better than standing in the queue. It is year 2008 and India 2.0 have experienced web 2.0. This system which we thought was great, already sucks.

IRCTC is not enough for us. We want something to represent India 2.0. In a classic web2.0 style, Thomas Cook has launched its site for train ticket booking. You can book your train tickets and there is a whole host of other services. But booking a train ticket is really a breeze. You don’t have to log in to check the availability and the prices. I guess this internally invokes IRCTC, but this is much better and faster. You can see all your available trains, routes and the prices. This, I guess is something most of you are waiting for.

Go check this out, and let me know about your experiences.

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