Train tickets on the eve of the May Day holiday are on sale today!
On April 16, the day before the May Day holiday (April 30), train tickets were officially on sale. The May Day holiday in 2024 will last from May 1 to May 5, a total of 5 days. According to the current rule of 15 days in advance of railway tickets, train tickets for April 30 will be sold on April 16, train tickets for the first day of the May 1 holiday will be sold on April 17, and train tickets for the last day of the May 5 holiday will be sold on April 21.
The railway department reminds that the railway 12306 website (including mobile phone client) is the only official online ticketing channel for train tickets, so please be sure to buy tickets through official channels.
Every time there is a long holiday, it will be difficult to grab a train ticket, and the following tips can improve the success rate of ticket purchase.
For passengers who purchase train tickets online (12306 mobile app), first of all, pay attention to the starting time. Passengers need to check the specific time of ticket purchase according to the station where they purchased their tickets and prepare in advance to avoid missing the first time to purchase tickets. Passengers can open the official website of 12306, click on the "starting time" under the "information inquiry" column, and then select the starting date and starting station for inquiry. Second, be ready to pay. Payment must be completed within 30 minutes when purchasing tickets online, and if the payment is not made within the time limit, the ticket will be automatically cancelled.
The pre-sale period of train tickets is 15 days, in order to prevent passengers from missing the start time, the railway 12306 App marks the time outside the pre-sale period with the word "reminder", click "set reminder", and you can set an alarm clock reminder in the mobile phone calendar.
In addition, passengers who have not purchased tickets for the first time can purchase tickets on the standby through the "Standby Ticket Purchase" service function on the 12306 website and mobile app. Since 0:00 on January 11, the railway 12306 website (including the mobile client, the same below) has optimized and upgraded the standby ticket purchase function, increased the number of standby orders and alternative plans, expanded the range of waitlist order cashing time options, and temporarily allocated new passenger train seats to passengers who have submitted standby orders, which will further improve the success rate of passenger standby ticket purchase.
The first is to increase the number of waitlist orders. The number of pending waitlist bookings that can be submitted per passenger has been increased from 2 to 6, and a maximum of 9 passengers can be added to each order.
The second is to increase the number of alternatives. When submitting a standby order, passengers can choose 2 adjacent travel dates, and each date can choose 5 combinations of "train number + seat", up to a maximum of 10 combinations. After the optimization and upgrade, passengers can choose any 3 travel dates during the pre-sale period, and can choose up to 60 combinations of "date + trains", and each train can choose multiple seats.
The third is to expand the range of options for waiting order fulfillment time. The original cut-off time for standby orders was 2 hours before departure, but after the optimization and upgrade, it was adjusted to 20 minutes before departure, and passengers can choose to modify the cut-off time according to the actual situation in a wider range.
Fourth, the temporary new passenger train seats will be allocated to passengers who have submitted standby orders. When submitting a standby order, passengers can choose to accept the purchase of new passenger train tickets that meet their travel needs, such as the temporary addition of passenger trains by the railway department, when the tickets are on sale, the railway 12306 will automatically give priority to the passengers who have submitted the standby order, and passengers do not need to manually query the information of the additional train before purchasing tickets.
The same is waiting, why some orders are successfully cashed early, and some orders are quiet and silent without news? The estimated success rate is high and low, how to increase the success rate? According to the 12306 official WeChat account previously introduced, three tips to help passengers buy tickets successfully, the first skill is to increase the number of standby trains, taking Beijing to Harbin standby ticket purchase as an example, waiting for a train, the estimated success rate is 45%, and the waitlist of five trains, the estimated success rate is 80%. The second trick is to open the "Accept new train" button when waiting for a train, fill in the required train requirements, and when there is a new train, the system will automatically redeem the ticket for the passenger. The third tip is to increase the waitlist orders for different travel dates, which is more likely to increase the success rate of cashing.
Open the Railway 12306 App, find the "Temporary Identity Certificate" in "My" and submit it according to the prompts, wait for the railway public security organ to review it, and the electronic license generated after passing can be used when traveling on the railway.
The railway department warmly reminds that each person can apply 6 times in a natural month. Passengers who have not successfully applied for an electronic temporary boarding identity certificate should go to the public security card window at the station to apply for a paper temporary boarding identity certificate.
For children, children who are 6 years old and under 14 years old when traveling with an adult should purchase a child discount ticket, and those who are 14 years old or older should purchase a full-price ticket. Each adult passenger with a ticket can bring one child under the age of 6 who does not occupy a separate seat for free. The age of the child is calculated based on the date of travel.
In addition, the railway department also reminded that the railway 12306 website (including the client) is the only official train ticket online ticketing platform of China Railway, and has never authorized any third-party platform to sell train tickets. Passengers who purchase tickets through third-party platforms will not only encounter "traps" such as surcharges and bundled sales of services, but also may have the risk of personal privacy information leakage. Please be sure to purchase tickets through the official channels of the railway, look for the official website of 12306 and the official APP of "Railway 12306", and confirm that the payee of the ticket is "China Railway Network Co., Ltd.", so as to avoid not receiving the refund due when the ticket is refunded and changed in the future.
In response to some third-party platforms claiming that "providing 'low-speed', 'high-speed', 'light-speed' and other different prices of ticket-grabbing acceleration packages, users can have priority to purchase tickets when purchasing acceleration packages, and users who purchase high-priced acceleration packages can be ranked in front of users with low-price acceleration packages", China Railway has previously stated that any user does not have the right to purchase tickets first, and any price acceleration package purchased on a third-party platform cannot achieve priority ticket purchase. For a long time, the railway department adheres to the principle of fairness and justice, adopts technical means and other means to fully safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the majority of passengers and the normal order of ticket sales, and through real-time monitoring and big data analysis of the 12306 system, once it is found that users with abnormal ticketing behavior will take measures to limit the flow of users. When someone refunds a ticket and other reasons to generate a new ticket amount, the railway 12306 system will give priority to the waitlist ticket purchase order, and cash it in the order in which the passenger submits the order, without charging any additional fees.
(Source: The Paper)