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This year's Mid-Autumn Festival National Day holiday
Have you traveled?
I believe many people who want to travel
It will be half a month to a month in advance
Buy a ticket
But there are also tourists who discover
Airfare prices plummeted
Related topics have also been on Weibo hot search
Many netizens commented on this topic
Share your ticketing experience
Call it a "crash"
Some netizens said
sometimes
On the contrary, the closer to the holiday, the cheaper the price
Prices fluctuate greatly within a month
How are airlines responding?
Why do airfares appear?
Such a big "dive"?
Airfare
By the airline basis
Real-time pricing of market supply and demand fluctuations
Before the holiday, some air ticket prices suddenly plummeted. The main reason may be overcapacity.
According to the big data of airline travel, nearly 140,000 flights were planned during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, and the average daily flight volume increased by about 20% compared with the same period in 2019. Manager data shows that as of September 13, the average daily planned flight volume of some city routes in 2019 doubled year-on-year, such as Chengdu-Changsha, Chengdu-Hangzhou, Chengdu-Wuhan and other routes.
There has been no proportional increase in bookings compared to the significant increase in capacity. Route big data shows that as of September 25, the number of air ticket bookings for the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays has basically recovered to the same level in 2019.
Summer passenger traffic growth has not kept pace with capacity growth. According to the Civil Aviation Administration of China, civil aviation will transport 130 million passengers during the summer tourism period in 2023 (July 1 to August 31), an increase of 7.4% over the same period of the 2019 summer tourism season. However, civil aviation guaranteed an average of 14,087 domestic passenger flights per day, an increase of 14.83% over the same period in the summer tourist season in 2019.
Compared to the supply and demand relationship where supply exceeds demand, air ticket prices remain high. According to flight butler data, as of September 27, the number of domestic air ticket orders during the double festival period increased by 1.2 times compared with May Day this year. Airfares have also risen significantly. The average price of domestic air tickets (economy class) is 1,078 yuan, an increase of more than 40% from the 2022 National Day and more than 10% from the 2019 National Day.
In addition to excess capacity, another possible reason is the diversion of civil air passenger traffic by railways. According to data released by China National Railway Corporation, from September 28 to October 7, the national railway is expected to send 142 million passengers, an increase of 11.44 million year-on-year, and an average of 14.2 million passengers. An increase of 8.8% per day.
Lawyer He of Beijing DHH Law Firm said that ticket sales adopt a first-order and later-sale model and floating pricing. Prices are subject to factors such as supply and demand, actual flight ticket sales, etc. In general, the closer you are to the departure time of your flight, the higher the ticket price. However, there are also cases where airlines will reduce their fares before departure because the number of ticket buyers is less than expected.
Airfare prices plummeted
What should consumers do?
In the face of a sharp drop in the price of some air tickets, some consumers said that after reporting to airlines and OTA platforms, "the ticket has been fully refunded" and "the price difference has been successfully refunded". There are also some consumers who are glad that they purchased the platform's price insurance service, and finally the platform refunds the difference.
Regarding the air ticket price insurance services provided by the platform, He said that some airlines may provide price insurance services for promotional purposes. That is, after the purchaser makes a booking, the airline promises that the price will not change for a certain period of time (price guarantee period). Rise. In the event of a fare reduction during the insurance period, the airline must pay the difference in price to the purchaser according to the insurance price.
From the perspective of consumer legal relations, once the ticket purchaser completes the purchase of a ticket within a certain period of time, it is deemed that the contractual relationship with the airline is established and takes effect. Except for other statutory or agreed reasons, the consumer service contract shall not be terminated or revoked. The fare difference due to the fare reduction will not be refunded. Similarly, airlines do not require ticket buyers to make up the difference due to the price increase. In addition, according to the provisions of the Law on the Protection of Rights and Interests of Consumers, if an airline commits fraud in providing goods or services, it shall increase the intensity of compensation at the request of the consumer and bear certain punitive damages.
He reminded that another noteworthy circumstance is that when booking a ticket through a third-party platform, it cannot be ruled out that the third-party platform may increase the sales price of the ticket without authorization, and then return to the actual ticket price. airlines, which led to a drop in prices. In this case, the third-party platform actually earns the difference from it. If the Ticket Purchaser can prove that the Airline sold the price at the time of purchase is lower than the price sold by the third-party platform, in this case, the Ticket Purchaser may claim a refund of the difference by the third-party platform.
The reporter learned from a travel platform that from the average price of domestic air tickets, the average price of holiday air tickets is 1187 yuan. If you want to avoid the price "peak", tourists can avoid peak travel dates such as September 28, September 29, October 5, October 6, etc. The data shows that on October 2 and 3, the average price of air tickets began to "fade". ", the average price fell by 20% to 30% from the peak day. There are few people, the scenery is beautiful, and the price is reasonable. During the festival, the "peak people" can take the lead.
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