It's a loss making service then. Even if it runs full on each side, for every Rs Railways has invested on it, it loses some paise(eg, return on investment could be 90paise per rupee). Subsided services do run but they are usually short distance trains. Shatabdis in general SHOULD be profit making trains for Railways, but I guess the data refutes that. In either case, it makes me wonder how the other Shatabdis are faring?