In 2024, the "May Day" holiday will last for 5 days, and the flow of visiting relatives, tourism, and students will be superimposed, and the railway passenger flow will show a strong growth trend. Starting from April 17, the train tickets on May 1, the first day of the "May Day" holiday, were officially on sale.
On the first day of the holiday, train tickets for popular lines went on sale "second light"
The reporter searched on the ticketing platform and found that on the first day of the "May Day" holiday, the train tickets were on sale, and the tickets for many popular lines were "seconds". As of 10 a.m. on April 17, some train tickets for many lines from Beijing to Xi'an, Chengdu, Chongqing, Harbin, and Zhengzhou have been sold out.
Ticket sales during the spring break holiday are hot, and the difficulty of grabbing tickets is comparable to that of the "Spring Festival"
April 28-30 is the spring vacation of primary and secondary school students in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and then connected with the "May Day" holiday, the 8-day holiday allows many parents to put travel on the agenda. On April 28, second-class train tickets from Hangzhou to popular destinations such as Beijing, Changsha and Guangzhou were basically sold out, and many parents said that the difficulty of grabbing tickets was comparable to that of the "Spring Festival".
Passengers can purchase tickets by waitlisting and multiple choices to increase the success rate The railway department reminds that passengers who have not bought their favorite tickets can purchase tickets through the waitlist as soon as possible, and submit waitlist orders by selecting several more dates, trains, and seat combinations to increase the success rate of waiting. The railway authorities will also increase capacity based on ticket sales.
The "May Day" holiday travel is hot, and air ticket bookings have entered a peak In addition to train tickets, air ticket bookings for the May Day holiday have also entered a peak. According to the big data of air travel, as of now, during the "May Day" holiday, the number of air ticket bookings for domestic routes has exceeded 2.2 million, an increase of nearly 62% over a week ago, and the number of air tickets booked for inbound and outbound routes has exceeded 690,000, an increase of about 17% over a week ago. Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Xi'an, Chongqing, Kunming and Wuhan are the top 10 popular domestic destinations during the May Day holiday, and outbound travel has also become a popular choice for tourists.
(CCTV)