Train is gaining patronage, all was Railways fault. Its timings were damn slow. Even intercity and this had 10 mins diff. Actually 12047 performs well (70%) but this was major bottleneck of this train that 12048 was too slow...
Now people may start preferring it over Janta and Intercity. So obviously janata express pssengers were already demanding ac coaches in it from FZR, this will surely satisfy the need.
Also monday was not required, many parties here in FZR had demanded it to run on Saturdays as well Thursdays. Let's see when...
more... they do that. But surely now it will feel the heat of Shatabdi.