Posts Tagged ‘irctc’

IRCTC disabled right click

Many readers of my post on booking tatkal tickets with Firefox’s autofill forms extension have reported that IRCTC has now disabled right clicks. Not only does this hamper saving the form, it is also very annoying. I’ve found a workaround for this. After you fill in the form do not directly go and right click [...]

PQWL status on Railway ticket

PQWL is one of the many Waiting List types that appear on reservation tickets. Practically speaking this is a Waiting List. Technically, there’s a difference between PQWL, CKWL, GNWL etc. The total seats available for reservation on a train are divided among different quotas. There’s the ladies quota, tatkal quota and general quota. Some trains [...]

CKWL status

An attempt to answer the question – “Will my CKWL x ticket get confirmed?”

Booking tatkal tickets on IRCTC the supercool way

This article is a short demo to using Firefox’s Autofill Forms extension to book tatkal tickets. First step is to go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4775 and install the extension. You’ll need to restart Firefox for the extension to take effect. Now that it’s done, head to the IRCTC website and login. Now head to the Quick Book [...]

CKWL on Tatkal railway ticket

So the other day I booked a tatkal ticket online from IRCTC. After the usual 500 errors and multiple tries I came to the “Congratulations!” page where they gave me the ticket details. And this is what I found in the ticket’s status “CKWL 23″. I wondered what the heck it was. Googling did not [...]