From April 17, Railway 12306 will start selling train tickets for the May Day holiday, and train tickets for May 1 will be sold on the same day.
This year's May Day holiday lasts for 5 days, the railway visit family, tourism flow intertwined, the railway department adheres to the people-centered development idea, actively adapts to the strong growth trend of passenger travel demand, carefully formulates the May Day holiday transportation plan, increases the capacity to invest, optimizes the ticketing organization, and goes all out to provide service guarantee for passengers to buy tickets for holidays.
During the May Day holiday, the national railway implements the peak operation map, does everything possible to tap the transportation potential, makes full use of the lines, stations, EMUs, general-speed vehicles and other capacity resources, and arranges about 11,000 passenger trains per day on the basic operation map, and adopts the methods of increasing the number of temporary passenger trains, reconnecting the EMUs, and adding carriages to the general-speed passenger trains, so as to maximize the number of passenger seats. Run special tourist trains between popular tourist cities to create new consumption scenarios and help the development of holiday tourism economy. Scientifically analyze the data of railway 12306 advance tickets and standby ticket purchases, dynamically optimize and adjust the train operation plan, and add passenger trains on popular routes, directions and time periods in a timely manner, and strive to meet the holiday travel needs of passengers.
The railway authorities have optimized the ticketing organization to further improve the ticketing experience of passengers. Make good use of service functions such as railway 12306 waitlist ticket purchase, online shop selection, pre-filling of ticket purchase information, sales reminder subscription, and railway free travel code, and enrich the content of 12306 information notification service. Railway 12306 will dynamically adjust the ticket allocation strategy every day according to the passenger flow trend, take into account the travel needs of long-distance and short-distance passengers, and timely put the ticket amount to the stations with large passenger flow demand, so as to maximize the protection of passenger travel needs. In order to cope with the peak of ticketing, the railway 12306 system has made various technical preparations in advance, which can meet the demand for ultra-large visits and ensure the safe and stable operation of the ticketing system.
In response to the reflection on the Internet about "some trains on sale during the May Day holiday", the person in charge of the passenger transport department of the China Railway Group said that the passenger travel during the May Day holiday is highly concentrated, and the contradiction between capacity and demand is very prominent, resulting in a shortage of tickets in local areas and periods, especially on some popular directions of the line, some trains with more suitable departure and arrival times and shorter travel time are the preferred travel solutions for many passengers. When the tickets for these trains are on sale, due to the very high attention of the majority of passengers, passengers will choose 12306 online ticket purchase, mobile APP, station windows and other ticketing channels to quickly "grab tickets", and there may be a "second light" phenomenon. To this end, it is recommended that passengers can choose off-peak travel according to the availability of tickets in different time periods and directions, or choose to purchase tickets by waitlist ticket purchase, transfer transfer, etc., so as to increase the success rate of ticket purchase. The railway department will also dynamically optimize and adjust the train operation plan according to the data of railway 12306 advance ticket and standby ticket purchase, and increase the number of passenger trains on popular routes, directions and time periods in a timely manner, so as to meet the holiday travel needs of passengers.
The railway department reminds that the railway 12306 website (including the mobile 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 when you need to refund or change the ticket in the future.
Source: China Railway Official Account