Scotrail - Advance Tickets & Counted Places - Fare Band Dependent?

[Furrball]

So looking at 2 x tickets for Glasgow to Aberdeen.

3 tickets remaining at one Advance price band - click through and show Reserved - No Seat Allocated.

Repeat process, pricing actually skips the next price band but at the higher price all of a sudden there is are reserved seats.

Is this common?

 

[alangla]

If it was the £5 singles you were looking at, AIUI, they don't have seat reservations, but all the other Advance tickets do

 

[cf111]

Yes, the very cheapest band of advance tickets have never had seat reservations but every other band does.

 

[Furrball]

Thanks.

Seems a strange way of operating!

 

[All Line Rover]

Seems like a sensible way of operating to me. Stops the passengers paying the least reserving all the best seats. English long-distance operators should think of doing this.

 

[route101]

If its departing from origin station , i actually prefer this as long as i get on train early and get a seat i want . I think advance tickets should be seat reservations optional , if you want one you can .