Reservation Against Cancellation - wikipedia Reservation Against Cancellation This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This article is written like a personal reflection or opinion essay that states a Wikipedia editor 's personal feelings about a topic. Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style. ( December 2014 ) This article is written like a manual or guidebook. Please help rewrite this article from a descriptive, neutral point of view, and remove advice or instruction. ( December 2014 ) This article needs more links to other articles to help integrate it into the encyclopedia. Please help improve this article by adding links that are relevant to the context within the existing text. ( October 2015 ) A Reservation Against Cancellation ( RAC ) is a type of ticket that can be sold for travel on the Indian Railways. Although it ensures certainty of travel, it does not guarantee a berth. A berth will be allocated to the person who reserves an RAC ticket if passengers who already have a confirmed ticket do not turn up before the train departure or get their confirmed ticket cancelled. A berth is split into 2 seats for 2 RAC ticket holders. If there 's any last minute cancellations, or if any quota allocations remain unsold, or if any confirmed ticket holders are given a free upgrade ( more later ), an RAC ticket holder is given the empty berth, the other RAC ticket holder can then convert the 2 seats into a berth. Generally, RAC / WL tickets will have two numbers - RAC8 / RAC2, WL20 / WL15, WL12 / RAC2, etc. The first number shows the status of the ticket at the time of booking. The second number after the slash ( / ) shows the current status of your ticket. So, RAC8 / RAC2 means that when you purchased the ticket, it may be that yours was the 8th such ticket under RAC category, which has moved 6 places after 6 cancellations before your position which is moved to the 2nd ( you can assume that you were the 8th person in the queue and you are the 2nd person now ). You can check the current status of your booking by entering 10 - digit PNR number in Indian Railway website. So having a RAC ticket means that you can travel sharing a berth with another person. References Jump up ^ `` Reservation Rules ''. Jump up ^ `` Indian Railways - New Rules ''. Indian Railways. Retrieved 1 March 2013. Jump up ^ `` Indian Railways - RAC ''. Indian Mike Forum. Retrieved 17 April 2013. Jump up ^ `` Passenger Current Status ''. Indian Railways. Retrieved 13 February 2014. External links Indian Railways - Reservation rules Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reservation_against_Cancellation&oldid=811970092 '' Categories : Indian Railways Services Hidden categories : Wikipedia articles needing style editing from December 2014 All articles needing style editing Articles with too few wikilinks from October 2015 All articles with too few wikilinks Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from October 2015 All articles covered by WikiProject Wikify Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 25 November 2017, at 03 : 32. About Wikipedia

Question: what do you mean by rac in reservation
Answer: it ensures certainty of travel, it does not guarantee a berth