Today (April 17), train tickets for the first day of the "May Day" holiday are on sale. The Yangtze River Cloud News reporter checked on the railway 12306 website and found that many popular line tickets have been sold out. Tickets for Beijing-Wuhan, Shenzhen-Wuhan, Xi'an-Wuhan and other lines are basically "seconds".
Have you grabbed a ticket? If you don't get a ticket, how can you "pick up the leaks"? How to improve the success rate of ticket grabbing? Let's look at the "cheats" of ticket grabbing.
Master the ticket grab calendar Add ticket grab reminders
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.
Friends who grab tickets should note that the railway 12306App marks the time outside the pre-sale period with the word "reminder", click "set reminder" to set an alarm clock reminder in the mobile phone calendar.
Before the train ticket sales time, passengers can pre-fill in the information such as passengers, train numbers, seats, etc., and submit the order and complete the payment with one click when the tickets go on sale, and the information will be "picked up in seconds", making it more convenient to purchase tickets.
If you don't get a ticket, how to "pick up the leak"?
Whether it is the day before the "May Day" holiday or the first day, many netizens have experienced that the train ticket is not issued in seconds, and it is waiting in the blink of an eye......
According to data from relevant platforms, during this year's May Day, Wuhan ranked eighth among the country's popular tourist destinations and the top three destinations for the "post-00s", with a year-on-year increase of 26% in holiday product bookings. "The pre-holiday passenger flow is mainly in the direction of Hanyi and Hanshi on the west line, and the hot spot of passenger flow after the holiday is in the direction of Hewu on the east line, and the peak day of passenger flow is May 1. Li Bo, the ticket attendant of the ticket workshop of Hankou Station, introduced.
What should we do if it is "hard to find a ticket" due to the high tide of tourism? Can you still "pick up the leaks" and grab a ticket? You can master these clever tricks.
1. Grasp the node time to "pick up" the remaining tickets
45 minutes after the ticket goes on sale, a batch of unpaid tickets may be returned to the ticket library, which is also a good time to grab tickets, and passengers can grasp the refund time node to "pick up the leak".
One to two days before departure (24 hours or 48 hours), passengers who occupy tickets can basically determine the itinerary, and the ticketing system will often release some of the remaining tickets. It should also be noted that there is a certain percentage of the allocated ticket amount at each stop, and if there are unsold tickets, the remaining tickets will be sold again the day before departure.
2. The 12306 waitlist ticket purchase function automatically "picks up leaks"
Make good use of the official "leakage artifact" - the standby ticket purchase function of railway 12306, and automatically "pick up leaks", so that the success rate and convenience of "leakage" are relatively high.
Li Bo, the ticket attendant of the ticket workshop of Hankou Station, introduced: "You can expand the range of choices, choose different trains at different times, up to 3 dates, 60 standby trains, and choose the starting train as much as possible to waitlist, and at the same time you can turn on the 'accept new trains' function, when there are new trains, the system will automatically cash for you." ”
3. Meet the travel needs by taking the car in sections
If a direct ticket is not available, passengers can purchase a connecting ticket to meet their travel needs by taking the train in sections.
Railway 12306 will intelligently recommend a transfer plan with remaining tickets according to passengers' travel needs and remaining tickets. At present, the railway department has set up convenient channels for transfer in 120 major stations, and arranged station staff to provide guidance services, so that passengers can enter the waiting room without leaving the station to wait for the train.
Is it reliable to "accelerate the package" and "buy a short by a long one"?
In order to grab tickets, many passengers purchase "acceleration packages" through third-party platforms, can this really achieve priority ticket purchase?
The railway department reminds that the use of "acceleration package" does not have the right of priority ticket purchase, and the acceleration package of any price purchased on a third-party platform cannot achieve priority ticket purchase.
Passengers can purchase standby tickets through the 12306 website or mobile app, and extend the standby redemption time by submitting multiple waitlist orders with a combination of "date, train number, and seat" to increase the success rate of ticket purchase.
Some travelers can't buy tickets, so it's advisable to go home by "buying a short and a long" way?
The railway department has repeatedly reminded that it is not advisable to "buy a short and a long one". In order to ensure the safe operation of trains, railway vehicles have certain capacity restrictions. For high-speed trains that run safely and smoothly at high speeds, the restrictions on passenger capacity are more stringent. During the peak period of passenger flow, if a large number of passengers who have purchased short-distance tickets do not get off the train after arriving at the station, it will cause the number of passengers to be overcrowded, seriously endanger the safety of train operation, and affect the normal transportation order. The railway department will discourage passengers who "buy short and take long" to get off the train.
(Changjiangyun News reporter Xie Yajing, Chen Xinwei, Song Jie, correspondent Xiao Yao)