2017 Spring Festival train ticket pre-sale period
From 0:00 on January 5, 2017, the national railway will implement a new train schedule. Before that, in order to match the adjustment of the operation chart, the pre-sale period of train tickets after December 30, 2016 was shortened from 60 days to 30 days.
The reporter learned from the Shanghai Railway Bureau that due to the impact of the Shanghai-Kunming high-speed rail operation, since 0:00 on January 5, 2017, the national railway has implemented a new train operation map, and 7 pairs of high-speed rail will be opened from the Yangtze River Delta region to Kunming. Among them, 2 pairs will be added and 5 pairs of extended operating sections will be opened. There is a direct high-speed rail from the Yangtze River Delta region to Kunming, and the original three-day speed line will be delivered to the high-speed rail on the same day. The running time from Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou to Kunming has been shortened from more than 30 hours to 9-12 hours, and the running time from Changsha to Kunming has been shortened to more than 4 hours.
In addition, in order to meet the travel needs of passengers, Ning'an Passenger College also added three pairs of peak line trains simultaneously, namely: Hefei South-Anqing G9501/2, G9503/4, and G9505/6 times. The Shanghai Hongqiao-Tongling G9236/7 and G9238/5 peak lines are extended to Shanghai Hongqiao-Chizhou.
The reporter learned that in order to cooperate with the adjustment of the map, the railway department adjusted the ticket pre-sale time. The ticket pre-sale period after December 30, 2016 was adjusted to 30 days, and the previous ticket pre-sale period was 60 days. Yesterday, the reporter logged on the 12306 website, and there was a prompt at the top of the ticket purchase page, "The ticket pre-sale period after December 30 is adjusted to 30 days". When the 60-day pre-sale period will be resumed was not explained.
The Spring Festival in 2017 is at the end of January, so this adjustment of the pre-sale period may directly affect the Spring Festival ticket sales. January 28, 2017 is the first day of the Lunar New Year. According to the adjusted 30 days, if citizens want to buy tickets for going home for the Chinese New Year, they can only buy them around the end of December.
The 30-day pre-sale period will make it difficult to buy Spring Festival tickets
Tickets after December 30 cannot be purchased now, because the pre-sale period has been adjusted, so they cannot be booked from online or mobile phone channels, and no recovery notice has been received yet.
"The pre-sale period is shortened, and the supply of tickets for the Spring Festival will be relatively tight." The staff member analyzed that the railway department will resume the 60-day pre-sale period before the Spring Festival travel, because the 30-day pre-sale period will make it difficult to buy tickets for the Spring Festival travel. According to previous experience, the railway department is likely to adjust the pre-sale period of tickets to 60 days recently. That is to say, the day when the Spring Festival railway will grab tickets is very close.
