The "May Day" holiday is approaching, and according to the regulations on the pre-sale of railway tickets, from April 17, Japanese passengers will be able to buy train tickets for the first day of "May Day". Some trains have been sold out in seconds as soon as they go on sale. The same is true for return tickets. Let's take a look at some tips to increase the success rate of ticket purchases.
First of all, you can choose the ticket standby function. In the standby function of the Railway 12306 App, the number of pending waitlist orders that each passenger can submit is 6, and any 3 travel dates can be selected during the pre-sale period, and a total of up to 60 combinations of "date + train" can be selected, each train can choose multiple seats, and each order can add up to 9 passengers. At present, the cut-off time for standby orders is 20 minutes before departure, and passengers can choose to modify the cut-off time according to the actual situation.
Li Xinzhe, passenger transport staff of Yinchuan Station of Lanzhou Bureau of China Railway: Standby ticket purchase skills have the following points: first, increase the number of standby trains, the more trains you choose to standby, the greater the probability of success of waiting; second, when waiting for trains, open the "accept new trains" button, fill in the required train requirements, when there are new trains, the system will automatically redeem tickets for passengers; third, increase the waitlist orders for different travel dates, which is more likely to improve the success rate of cashing. In addition, the pre-sale period of train tickets is 15 days, in order to prevent missing the start time, the railway 12306 App 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.
The second option is to use the connecting function. Passengers who are unable to purchase a direct ticket can also purchase a connecting ticket and board the train in sections. The Railway 12306 App will intelligently recommend transfer plans with remaining tickets according to passengers' travel needs and remaining tickets.
Zhao Dan, Deputy Director of the Passenger Transport Workshop of Luoyang Station of Zhengzhou Bureau of China Railway: Generally, the more transfers, the more expensive the cumulative price of tickets. When transferring in the middle of the transfer, passengers should try to choose a large station with more trains as the transfer station, which can increase the success rate of transfer, reduce the number of transfers, and avoid excessive travel costs.
It is worth noting that the transfer number of the connecting ticket can be dynamically adjusted, if the passenger finds that there is a passenger train in the section that is more in line with the travel needs, or fails to catch the scheduled transfer train, the ticket within the pre-sale period can be changed before and on the day after the departure. If you are transferring at the same station during the transfer process, after verifying the ticket, passengers can directly enter the waiting room to wait for the train, without re-entering and exiting the station, or they can ask the station staff for help to shorten the transfer time as much as possible.
Source: CCTV Finance