Glossary · PNR & booking status
Not even a waitlist is available: the quota and its waitlist are both full, and no ticket can be issued.
REGRET in the availability table means the waitlist for that quota has reached its ceiling. You cannot book at all, not even as WL. The ceiling varies by train and class, so a train may show REGRET in Sleeper and a long waitlist in 3A on the same day.
The practical responses are a different quota, a different train, VIKALP on a waitlisted booking for a nearby date, or Tatkal the day before.
Also written or searched as: regret status · not available · regret meaning
Classes, PNR statuses, the five waitlists, quotas, berth codes and fare line items, each with the tool that acts on it.
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Scope: Definitions follow the published Indian Railways and IRCTC rules. Where a figure appears, it is read from the same engine as the site's calculators.
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