Beijing, Jan 6 (Reporter Zhang Ni) From the 6th, the train tickets for New Year’s Eve (February 4) in Spring Festival travel rush in 2019 will be officially put on sale. With the "white-hot" of Spring Festival travel rush’s ticket-grabbing war, the phenomenon of "second light" appears in the train tickets of many popular routes. Many passengers hope for a variety of ticket grabbing artifacts and acceleration packages, but some "traps" for ticket grabbing need to be vigilant.
Data map: December 25, 2018, Xi’ an North Station. China News Service reporter Bird photo
Popular routes are hard to get a ticket.
According to the data from China Railway Corporation, during the period of Spring Festival travel rush in 2019, the national railways are expected to send 413.3 million passengers, an increase of 31.76 million passengers year-on-year, with an average of 10.33 million passengers per day, setting a new record in Spring Festival travel rush.
In addition, the students’ tide and the returning tide overlap, which makes the return tickets in Spring Festival travel rush more tight this year than in previous years.
A few days ago, the reporter logged on the 12306 website to inquire about the ticket sales information, and found that the return tickets of many popular routes before the holiday were "one ticket is hard to find".
As of 17: 00 on January 5th, on February 3rd (the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month), only two of the 39 trains from Beijing to Changchun had a small number of tickets left, and the G-prefix, D-prefix and Z-prefix train tickets were all sold out.
Train tickets from Beijing to Jinan are also in demand. On February 3, there were only two trains and a small number of tickets left, and the arrival time was late at night or early the next morning.
Grab the ticket carefully and mistakenly enter the "pit"
Pit 1:The hidden option of ticketing software makes people spend more money.
Many passengers who use the ticketing software to buy tickets will find that the actual payment for their own train tickets is higher than that for official website. This is mainly because when passengers buy tickets, some ticketing software has the default check of the acceleration package.
Although the acceleration package can be cancelled by default, because its displayed position is very hidden, passengers will ignore it carelessly, resulting in people who don’t need the acceleration package service spending more money.
Pit 2: Buy acceleration package ≠ Can buy tickets
Spring Festival travel rush train tickets are hard to buy. Many people hope to pay for the accelerated package, but it turns out that the accelerated package can’t guarantee 100% tickets.
In fact, the principle of the ticketing software is to use enterprise-class bandwidth or multiple accounts to repeatedly query the remaining tickets, and to use technical means to submit orders instead of users. Its order placing speed is higher than that of manual ticket purchase, but whether or not you can buy tickets depends on the ticketing situation of 12306, and you don’t have the priority to buy tickets.
Therefore, the "probability of grabbing tickets" is only a probability in the final analysis. You may not be able to buy tickets if you buy an acceleration package.
Pit 3: Personal information is leaked.
Passengers must provide their real name, ID number, mobile phone number and other personal information when purchasing tickets through the ticketing software, and the ticketing software platform has the obligation to keep the personal information of the passengers strictly confidential.
Even so, it is still impossible to rule out the situation that the platform staff disclose the personal information of passengers for personal gain. Once information is used by criminals, it may become a tool for others to scalping tickets or engage in other illegal activities.
Moreover, it is difficult for passengers to know that such personal information is leaked, which makes it difficult to defend rights.
Data Map: On March 12, 2018, passengers entered the station at Kunming Railway Station. China News Service reporter Liu Yuyang photo
"Alternate ticket purchase" is more reliable
This year, passengers who need to snap up Spring Festival travel rush train tickets may wish to try the new "standby ticketing service" function of the railway department.
During the period of Spring Festival travel rush in 2019, the railway department selected some long-distance sections of trains with tight capacity, and launched the "standby ticket purchase service" function on the 12306 website (including mobile phone client). Its speed and success rate will be better than the ticketing software, and no extra fees will be charged.
Each user can submit one standby order, select two adjacent boarding dates and reserve three tickets. Among them, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Guangdong and other places will start before the holiday, Sichuan and Chongqing will eventually arrive, and Sichuan and Chongqing will start after the holiday. All trains that arrive in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Guangdong will open alternate ticket purchase pilots.
It should be reminded that two adjacent boarding dates can be selected in the same standby order (the same origin and destination area, and the stations can be different), and each boarding date can contain at most two different combinations of "trains+seats", so each user can add at most four standby requirements, that is, "ticket purchasing combinations" with four different dates, trains and seats.
Don’t forget the five opportunities for missing.
Don’t worry if you don’t grab the ticket at the first time when the ticket is on sale. Passengers still have five opportunities to "miss":
1. After 30 minutes of sale, if any passenger fails to pay in time, the ticket will be returned to the system for sale.
2, 15 days before driving, is the peak of refund.
3. The system will release some remaining tickets 48 hours and 24 hours before driving.
4. Generally, 22: 00 to 23: 00 is the peak of refund.
5. Each stop station has a certain proportion of allocated tickets. If there are any unsold tickets, the remaining tickets will be sold again the day before driving. (End)