Spring Festival train tickets are available for sale today, and the price of airline tickets in many places is cheaper than train tickets | Spring Festival Travel News



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Original title: Spring Festival transportation tickets are on sale today, and airline tickets in many places are cheaper than train tickets

Beijing News (Reporter Wang Zhenzhen) At 5:00 on December 30, the 2021 Spring Festival train tickets will officially go on sale. Starting today, passengers can purchase tickets for the first day of the Spring Festival travel season, which is January 28. Data from travel platforms such as Tongcheng Travel, Fliggy and Qunar show that sales of train lines leaving from major cities such as Wuhan, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Shanghai and Shenzhen are rare.

Judging from the sale and reservation of train tickets on the Feizhu platform, the first to enter the Spring Festival transportation status are Wuhan Station, Shenzhen North Station, Guangzhou South Station, Shanghai Hongqiao Station , Nanjing South Station, Beijing West Station and Beijing South Station. Reservations for January On the 28th, the number of train tickets to all parts of the country is the highest. Shenzhen North-Wuhan ranks first in the “hardest to get” train ticket for many consecutive years. This year is no exception. Wuhan ranks first in the popular line of deposit tickets for the arrival station. Also, Guangzhou South-Chongqing West, Shanghai Hongqiao-Changsha South, Nanjing South-Zhengzhou East, Shenzhen North-Changsha South, Chengdu East-Hefei South, Shanghai-Zhengzhou, Guangzhou South-Zhanjiang West, Shanghai Hongqiao-Zhengzhou East, etc. Very popular.

According to the official ticketing information, on January 6, 2021, passengers can book train tickets for February 4 (lunar new year); on January 13, 2021, passengers can book train tickets for February 11 (New Years Eve); On January 19, 2021, passengers can book a return ticket on February 17 (the sixth day of the first month). According to the forecast of the National Railway Group, the national railway will send 407 million passengers during the Spring Festival Transport in 2021, with an average of 10.18 million passengers per day.

The Spring Festival travel ticket booking data on the Qunar platform shows that after the Spring Festival travel begins on January 28, the first peak of the outbound trip will start on February 1, and the trip Peak will start again on February 6, February 2-4. The daily volume of reserves is relatively low. Additionally, Qunar found that 8 to 9 a.m. is the most concentrated period of time for all-day trips, followed by 9 to 10 a.m. and 3 to 6 a.m., which is the least amount of travel during the day.

According to the analysis of the same trip, the most difficult cities to buy train tickets for the Spring Festival in 2021 are mainly concentrated in the central areas of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Chengdu-Chongqing and other urban clusters with large migrant population and more job opportunities. Among them, Guangzhou-Chongqing, Beijing-Harbin, Guangzhou-Guiyang, Guangzhou-Nanning, Chongqing-Guangzhou, Guangzhou-Hengyang, Jinhua-Guiyang, Shanghai-Xi’an, Guangzhou-Wuhan, Shenzhen-Wuhan, Guangzhou-Dazhou, Shenzhen -Guiyang, Guangzhou-Yueyang, Hangzhou-Guiyang, Ningbo-Guiyang are the 15 “hardest to get” train lines during Spring Festival Transportation in 2021.

Additionally, Fliggy’s data shows that during the Spring Festival travel season in 2021, airline tickets in many locations are cheaper than train tickets. According to the “special ticket” on the Fliggy platform, the Shanghai-Shenzhen minimum air ticket is only 250 yuan around Jan 28, which is 351 yuan cheaper than the 601 yuan high-speed train second-class ticket. Ticket prices for Hangzhou-Guangzhou, Kunming-Nanjing, Beijing-Hangzhou, Nanjing-Guangzhou, and other routes are also cheaper than high-speed train tickets.

Taking into account factors such as epidemic prevention and control and safe and orderly travel, returning home on a staggered peak has become another important feature of the upcoming Spring Festival. College student passenger flow is expected to end basically before the Spring Festival travel peak on January 26. Returning home workers are expected to usher in the first wave of small peaks on the first day of the Spring Festival trip on January 28, and the second wave of small peaks on February 4, New Years Day. . The 28th of the twelfth lunar month (February 9) will be New Year’s Eve. Go home to the highest peak.

Wu Ruoshan, a special investigator with the Tourism Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that a staggered return home can help ensure the safety of the trip during the Spring Festival and the orderly and stable flow of passengers. For example, the first and second days of the new year are good options. Passengers who can organize vacations are recommended to travel flexibly on a staggered peak.

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism recommended tourists in a recent regular press conference for the fourth quarter of 2020 to organize their itineraries reasonably during New Years Day and Spring Festival to reduce unnecessary travel, not to organize the outbound tourism if necessary and not travel to high-risk national areas. . Before traveling, learn about and comply with the latest epidemic prevention and control policies at the place of departure and destination through authorized channels. Pay attention to personal hygiene protection while traveling and develop hygiene habits and lifestyles such as “meter noodles”, frequent hand washing, wearing masks and using chopsticks.

Editor in charge: Lai Liuhua SN244

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