§ 101-41.208-4 - Issuance and use of sleeping or parlor car tickets when accommodations are not assigned.

(a) At the time a traveler presents a GTR authorizing sleeping or parlor car accommodations, the ticket agent shall issue a ticket therefor even if there is no guarantee that the accommodations will be available. This situation arises when a reservation cannot be made in advance for sleeping or parlor car service authorized to begin:

(1) At an intermediate point;

(2) At the initial point of travel but space is currently exhausted; or

(3) At the return portion of a round trip.

(b) It is incumbent upon the traveler holding such ticket to obtain an actual space assignment immediately upon arrival at the point where the authorized accommodations are to be furnished. When the service supplied is different or of a lesser value than that authorized by the ticket, the traveler shall secure written acknowledgment of that fact from the local ticket agent or conductor assigning the space and submit it promptly with a written report of the facts and circumstances, including reference to the number of the GTR exchanged for the ticket, to the office that issued the GTR. The traveler shall also forward with that report any unused tickets or transportation coupons in his possession.