Enormous labour shortage at the Hungarian State Railways
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Between 7:15 pm and 5:30 am, there was no ticket sales desk open at Keleti Railway Station. Passengers were advised to use the vending machines or purchase the tickets online, RTL News reported.
The reason for the closed desk was that the only night shift ticket seller got ill, and there was no way for substitution in such a short time, an associate of MÁV (Hungarian State Railways) explained. On Monday, only 4 desks were open out of the total of 13 because of labour shortage, according to Index. We have already published articles about how things took a wrong turn long ago for MÁV.
On the Facebook page of MÁVINFORM, passengers were advised to use the vending machines or buy the tickets online. A lot of the machines only accepted card or cash or were just simply out of order – in this case, the only way was to buy the ticket on the internet.