MONTREAL — VIA Rail Canada is giving customers a head’s up that its reservation system will be temporarily unavailable ahead of the launch of its new booking platform.

Between 7 p.m. ET on Friday, Nov. 17 and 5 p.m. ET on Saturday, Nov. 18, the reservation will be unavailable, meaning that customers will not be able to reserve, modify or cancel their reservations during this system interruption. VIA is strongly encouraging customers to book and plan their trips in advance.

Train operations will not be affected and all reservations made prior to the system interruption remain valid. However, there will be some impacts on the following customer services during this period:

• It will not be possible to book, cancel or modify trips through any of VIA Rail’s customer points of sale (online, in stations, on board and the VIA Customer Centre)
• Passengers who did not purchase a ticket prior to the system interruption will not be able to board trains during that said period
• Online customer profiles will not be accessible and printing boarding passes from these profiles will not be possible
• The option to print boarding passes in stations will not be possible
• However, passengers will have access to their travel documents through the boarding pass email sent after the completion of a booking

“We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank our passengers for their understanding. We will provide updates on the status of our reservation system on our social media channels and on our website,” said VIA Rail in a statement. 

For more information go to https://www.viarail.ca/en/reservia-outage.