2018 Spring Festival train ticket booking time and
Seeing that the 2018 Spring Festival travel and Chinese New Year is not long away, do the friends who go home for the Chinese New Year always pay attention to the time to buy train tickets during the Spring Festival? So when will the 2018 Spring Festival train ticket booking go on sale? The following is a comprehensive guide on the 2018 Spring Festival ticket grab schedule collected by the National Standard Products Network. Hope it can be helpful to you. According to the "2018 Railway Spring Festival Ticket Purchase Calendar" compiled by China Railway Corporation,The Spring Festival travel in 2018 is from February 1st to March 12th, whileThe first day of the Spring Festival train tickets will also be officially pre-sold today (January 3). The following picture is the 2018 Spring Festival train ticket pre-sale schedule (The green date is the time to order train tickets online, and the brown date is the time to buy train tickets at the agency.）
It is important to note that the current online (12306 website and APP), telephone booking pre-sale period is 30 days, and the pre-sale period for station windows, agents and vending machines is 28 days. Therefore, train tickets on New Year's Eve (February 15) will also go on sale on January 17.
Meanwhile, winter vacation student tickets and migrant workers' Spring Festival travel tickets have also been centralized.
Data show that in 2017, the national railway sent a total of 357 million passengers during the Spring Festival, an increase of 32.752 million passengers, an increase of 10.1%, setting a new record for railway Spring Festival passengers.
What if I don't get the ticket right away?The People's Daily gave a guide to buying tickets for the 2018 Spring Festival, including "ticket purchase channels", "independent seat selection", "5 opportunities to pick up leaks", and "ticket collection".
"5 opportunities to pick up leaks in 2018 Spring Festival train tickets": 45 minutes after the sale (train tickets not paid in time), 15 days before the drive (peak refund period), 48 hours and 24 hours before the drive (the ticketing system will release some remaining tickets), 22:00~ 23:00 every night (peak refund period). During these 5 time nodes, the refund will be relatively concentrated. At this time, you can buy tickets online, maybe you can "pick up leaks". In addition, you can also "pick up leaks" by checking the ticket information in real time.
"Multi-channel buying": 12306 website, APP, train station ticket windows and sales outlets are independent of each other, and users can check the ticket information in real time to "pick up leaks" (refresh the train number and other information at any time).
"Buy a transit ticket": If the" direct "train tickets are sold out, you can choose to buy a transit ticket at this time. In November this year, 12306 officially launched the" continuous transfer "function, allowing users to directly check the remaining tickets for some trains that change once on the way, and can also complete the payment of tickets for two journeys at one time. (When choosing" continuous transfer "to buy tickets, you need to fully consider various factors that affect the transfer, such as train delays, etc.)
"Temporary new train"The railway department said that passengers can also pay attention to the additional passenger trains at any time and buy tickets for the additional trains. For example, since 0:00 on December 28, 2017, Guangzhou Railway has adjusted the passenger train operation map and opened 33.5 pairs of passenger trains, of which 28.5 pairs of high-speed trains (mainly bound for Chengdu and Chongqing), such as Guangzhou-Chongqing trains have increased a lot.
It should be noted that if the 12306 website and APP and other online ticket purchases are cancelled 3 times a day, the system will automatically freeze the account; the current 12306 website and APP ticket sales time is 6:00 am to 23:00 pm every day; 12306.cn website ticket purchases, changes and refunds must be no later than 30 minutes before driving; when handling the "change to the station" business, no later than 48 hours before driving; remember to pick up the ticket in advance (household registration book, ID card, social security card can be).
It is worth mentioning that recently, the railway department has also launched the "Railway Smooth" frequent flyer membership service. After the user registers and activates, the purchase of tickets will receive corresponding ride points, and the points will be accumulated according to the ticket fare they purchased (points = fare * 5, points reach more than 10,000 points for the first time, that is, they are eligible for point redemption, and every 100 points is equivalent to 1 yuan). Passengers can redeem points for train tickets on trains designated by the railway department, including members themselves and designated transferees.
