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When will the Spring Festival return train tickets go on sale? Tips for picking up train tickets

The Spring Festival is approaching, and the train on New Year's Eve has been robbed. Many people have bought tickets to go home for the new year, but for migrant workers, it's not good to only go home. It's also worrying whether they can grab the return ticket after the Spring Festival. Soon, the Spring Festival return ticket will be robbed. In order to help you quickly grab the return ticket, Xiaobian summarized some tips for picking up the leakage of the ticket.

Spring Festival return tickets are about to open

According to the rule that the pre-sale period of train tickets is 30 days, train tickets for the first day of the lunar new year can be bought on January 7, train tickets for the second day of the lunar new year can be bought on January 8, and train tickets for the last day of the long Spring Festival holiday, that is, the sixth day of the Lunar New Year (February 10), can be bought on January 12. Many people are often 'obsessed' with robbing the return train ticket before the festival, but forget to rob the return train ticket after the festival. In this small series, we remind you to calculate the date to buy the return train ticket.

Big data show that train tickets' arriving within 3 hours' are the most popular on New Year's Eve. Usually, passengers who take a long time will leave home earlier, and 60% of the passengers who leave on New Year's Eve are '3-hour arrival circle'. At the same time, the proportion of ticket sales of high-speed rail and bullet train reached the peak on New Year's Eve, and more than 8 of the tickets sold became high-speed rail and bullet train tickets, which is consistent with the characteristics of high-speed rail, bullet train and Tianda.

Tips for picking up train tickets

Pinch the time to pick up the leak

If you fail to grab the train ticket at the time of sale, you can buy your favorite train ticket by pinching the point of 'picking up the leak'. Remember the three 'leak picking times'!

1. After sales for 30 minutes. After the successful online ticket grabbing, there is a 30 minute payment time. Some passengers will choose to give up payment, so this point can open a 'return ticket'.

2. 15 days, 48 hours and 24 hours before start-up. Therefore, these three time points may usher in a wave of refund, which is a good time to 'pick up the leak'. However, it should be emphasized that the refund fee for train tickets with a travel date during the Spring Festival transportation after the change is 20%.

3. 30 minutes before driving. If you buy a ticket on 12306 website and do not take out the paper ticket, the ticket change and refund must be no later than 30 minutes before driving. Therefore, this time node also has the opportunity to 'pick up the leak'.

Select continuous transfer

When there is no ticket for the direct train between the departure and destination, you can try to buy the ticket home by continuous transfer. For example, passengers to Sichuan and Chongqing can take the train to Xi'an first, and then transfer to the trains to Chengdu and Chongqing in Xi'an; Passengers going to Yunnan and Guizhou can take a bus to Changsha first and transfer to the train bound for Guiyang in Changsha.

Automatic refresh function

On the home page of 12306 website, after entering "place of departure and place of arrival", click "query" to enter the "ticket reservation" page. There is the option of "turn on automatic query" under the query button on the right. After selection, it will be submitted automatically. At the same time, you can use 'booking assistant' to select 'passenger', 'train number', 'seat type', 'alternative date', etc. for more accurate self-service query. The system automatically refreshes the seat status of the train number every 5 seconds. After finding the corresponding seat, the system automatically locks the seat and enters the verification code to automatically submit the order.

Focus on additional trains

In order to cope with the peak passenger flow, the railway department also actively adopts multiple ways such as multiple unit reconnection or additional passenger cars to further increase the transport capacity in popular directions. During the Spring Festival transportation in 2019, the Yangtze River Delta railway plans to open 251 additional pairs of passenger trains, and restore the operation of 4 pairs of passenger trains stopped in the off-season. The high-speed railway line implements the peak operation diagram, and timely adjusts and encrypts the operation according to the needs of passenger flow. At present, the additional bus tickets for Spring Festival transportation are successively put on sale on the 12306 platform, and passengers can continue to pay attention to the 12306 ticket purchase website and app for purchase&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;