Nandu News Reporter Zhong Liting Intern Luo Jingyu Correspondent Xu Guangguang Arriving home on the same day as the Chinese New Year's Eve is the wish of countless returnees. January 17 is the first day of this year's Spring Festival, according to Qunar big data, as of 12:00 a.m. on January 17, the Number of Spring Festival train ticket reservations increased by more than 50% compared with yesterday, and railway travel bookings entered the peak period.
According to the 15-day advance sale arrangement of China Railways, passengers can book Chinese New Year's Eve same-day train tickets on January 17, 2022. According to Qunar big data, since January 14, the number of Spring Festival train ticket bookings has increased by more than 7 times compared with the previous week.
Since train tickets departing from Chinese New Year's Eve are sold today, tickets for short-distance provincial lines are the most popular. Qunar big data shows that the main source of booking such tickets is concentrated in the Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta, southwest Sichuan-Chongqing region; the popular destinations are Chongqing, Wuhan, Harbin, Changsha, Guiyang; the popular departure places are Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Chengdu.
Top 10 departure points for railways.
Guangzhou-Zhanjiang is a popular train route
On the Qunar platform, the peak period of this year's Spring Festival is January 28.
As of 12:00 a.m. on January 17, a search through the Qunar platform showed that the booking of departure routes in the province was more popular, and the tension of inter-provincial routes was slightly eased compared with January 29 and January 30. Search qunar platform, January 31 departure Beijing -Chengdu, Beijing -Changsha, Guangzhou South - Zhanjiang West, Guangzhou South - Chengdu and other lines, only a small number of second-class seats sold out, multiple trains remaining tickets. From Beijing to Wuhan, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Harbin and other popular cities, some trains still have remaining tickets, while on January 29 and 30, there are still no remaining tickets.
This year's Spring Festival in the southwest and northeast regions of the crowd is more enthusiastic about buying tickets. According to Qunar big data, the popular railway lines for the Spring Festival this year are Guangzhou-Zhanjiang, Beijing-Harbin, Shanghai-Changsha, Chengdu-Chongqing, and Beijing-Taiyuan. On qunar platform, the top ten popular destinations for spring transport rail travel in 2022 are: Chongqing, Changsha, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Harbin, Guiyang, Chengdu, Nanchang, Zhanjiang, Fuyang, Shenyang. The top 10 popular departure cities are Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Suzhou, Nanjing, Dongguan, Changsha and Wuhan. Among them, Dongguan has increased significantly compared with previous years, ranking among the top ten starting points of the Spring Festival for the first time.
According to the railway department, the passenger flow of this year's Spring Festival will still be affected to a certain extent, but the overall situation is better than that of the 2021 Spring Festival, and the number of passengers in this year's Spring Festival is expected to recover to 70.1% of the 2019 Spring Festival, 130.0% of the 2021 Spring Festival.
It is reported that this year, Qunar has also developed intelligent travel functions such as "spelling seats". In addition to the original transfer splicing method, qunar platform launched a new function of "combination seat", which also provides an alternative to supplementary tickets to help passengers better solve the thorns of the way back home.
Recently, the railway department data said that the railway transportation capacity of the Spring Festival in 2022 will increase by 10% compared with 2019. According to Qunar platform data, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Suzhou, Nanjing, Dongguan, Wuhan and Changsha are the top ten popular departure cities, of which Dongguan has increased significantly compared with previous years, ranking among the top ten departure places for the Spring Festival for the first time.
Chinese New Year's Eve there are sufficient tickets for the first three days
Contrary to the difficulty of finding a ticket for the popular line train ticket, the first three days of this year's Chinese New Year's Eve have sufficient tickets. Among them, the minimum discount of Beijing-Guangzhou air ticket is 2.1% off, the minimum discount of Beijing-Chengdu air ticket is 2.6% off, the minimum discount of Beijing-Changsha air ticket is 3.5% off, and the minimum discount of Beijing-Harbin air ticket is 50%.
Qunar data shows that the number of air tickets booked for the Spring Festival in 2022 also increased significantly compared with last year. It is worth noting that in previous years, air tickets were in short supply, and many places have cancelled direct flights and retained direct flights, and the price of air tickets has increased slightly compared with previous years. According to qunar's platform, the direct flight fare of the Beijing-Jiamusi route in the three days before the Spring Festival is as high as 6400 yuan, and the price of the transit flight is also more than 1500 yuan, and the transit time ranges from 3 hours to 11 hours.
According to Qunar big data, the destinations with higher air ticket travel growth in the Spring Festival in 2022 are Shijiazhuang, Shennongjia, Jiansanjiang, Kaili, Wudalianchi, Jiamusi, Qiqihar, Fuyuan, Daqing and Yichun. Affected by the ice and snow heat of the 2022 Winter Olympics, the demand for travel and tourism in the northeast region has increased significantly.
Lan Xiang, president of Qunar Big Data Research Institute, analyzed that the trend of passenger inflow during the Spring Festival this year is mainly in the southwest region of Sichuan and Chongqing, of which the number of second-tier cities to third- and fourth-tier cities is relatively large.