At night, the outdoor temperature in the T2A terminal of Chongqing Jiangbei Airport dropped to 4 °C, but it was still lively and crowded. From time to time, passengers step on the Airport Express K01 line and wait for departure.
From Jiangbei International Airport to Jiefangbei, late every night, the staff of the airport express K01 line will only receive the passengers of the last flight at the airport.
With the start of the Spring Festival, the staff on the K01 line has become more and more busy, the bus carries passengers to the direction of home, full of homesickness for the Spring Festival night returnees, upstream news reporters take a bus in the early morning, listen to the Spring Festival "night returnees" tell the story of going home.
Middle-aged couple:
The wife brought her husband home with milk tea and spicy skewers
After 0:00 on January 31, Liu Shuangquan, who had just flown to Chongqing from Taizhou, Zhejiang, took a hand-held briefcase and a casual backpack, walked lightly, and went straight to the Airport Express K01 line, waiting to embark on the way home.
Liu Shuangquan, who had just landed in Chongqing, was full of tiredness, but he was full of happiness, and beside him, he made a special trip to the airport to pick up his wife, and kept giving him snacks. "After going out for so long, what I want most is this spicy taste!" Holding the milk tea bought by his wife and the steaming spicy skewers in his hand, this spicy skewer in his hometown made Liu Shuangquan hungry for a long time.
Liu Shuangquan, 40 years old this year, works in a pumped storage power station project in Taizhou, Zhejiang, because of the nature of his work, he travels all year round, often half a year or a year to return home, "We eat and live on the project, the conditions are difficult, and we rarely eat authentic Sichuan and Chongqing flavors." ”
For him, this year is ordinary but special, his career is smooth, and his daughter has officially entered the first year of high school. Asked about the harvest of the year, Liu Shuangquan opened the photo album on his mobile phone and showed the upstream news reporter a photo of the honorary certificate he had just won the "Advanced Individual of the Year", with an irrepressible smile on his face. "I laughed at him, I came back once every six months, and every time I came back, the baby was a big change. The wife said cheerfully. Liu Shuangquan looked a little shy again, he said, get ready for the New Year so that his wife can relax, buy some gifts for his daughter to reward her hard work, and then take them to Langzhong.
In the short chat, Liu Shuangquan always smiled, took the Airport Express K01 line, and 30 minutes later, he and his wife will return home, waiting for a reunion breakfast with their daughter.
Out-of-town tourists:
Prepare to take Chongqing hot pot base home for the New Year
During the conversation, a middle-aged man wearing a black jacket and a child walked into the car and kept asking the ground staff, "How long does this bus take to get to the Liberation Monument?" and "Is Hongya Cave far away from the Liberation Monument?"
The man's name is Dong Ping, a native of Inner Mongolia, who specially rushed to Chongqing to take his children to Chongqing to play on the eve of the Spring Festival.
"The child's winter vacation time is only one month, and before the Spring Festival holiday, I will take him to Chongqing and Chengdu to play and have a long experience. Dong Ping said that he arranged a three-day trip in Chongqing, and that night, he booked a homestay for more than 200 nights in the Liberation Monument, and then planned to go to the Dregs Cave and Geyue Mountain to take the children to feel and understand the red culture.
After the trip to Chongqing and Chengdu, he also had to fly back to Inner Mongolia to reunite with the elderly and relatives at home. When asked what specialties he was going to bring back to his hometown, he smiled and said that Chongqing hot pot is famous, so he will bring some hot pot base back to cook it for his family to taste.
Wang Yao, a 23-year-old girl who lives in Dazhou, Sichuan, also took the shuttle bus with her boyfriend and flew from Jiangsu to Chongqing, preparing to play in Chongqing for two days before taking the bus back to her hometown. This is also the first time she has taken her boyfriend back to her hometown to meet her parents, and when it comes to New Year's resolutions, she is a little shy, "I hope to 'achieve positive results' with him!"
Night Shift Drivers:
Stick to the Spring Festival for 6 years, and stay up late is used to it
The car was about to depart, and laughter could be heard from time to time in the carriage.
Yu Yungang, the driver of the shuttle, is participating in the Spring Festival for the sixth time this year, and he told reporters that the Spring Festival is the busiest time of the year, especially after 12 o'clock, when the airport express line has the largest passenger flow.
"With a lot of traffic, there will be a little more pressure. Yu Yungang said that unlike the regular bus routes, the driver of the airport express is a business card representing the image of Chongqing, and it is the first impression left by many tourists when they come to Chongqing. In order to ensure the travel of passengers, the airport express K01 line often has to wait until the passengers who arrive on the last flight before closing the shift. In his memory, the latest time was to wait until about half past five in the morning.
This kind of night shift life has long been accustomed to Yu Yungang and his colleagues, "If you do this job, you have to do it well." ”
Thank you for choosing to take the Airport Express, please fasten your seatbelts and we're ready to go. Soon, the passengers on the car were almost full, Yu Yungang said a few greetings, sat in the cab, and carried the passengers towards the direction of home......
Upstream news reporter Tan Xu intern Li Siran