China News Service, January 8th, at 00:50 on the 7th, the K4562/3 train full of passengers departed from Guangzhou Station; at 5:23 on the 7th, the first high-speed rail train G4831 in Shanghai that day slowly left Shanghai Hongqiao Station ; At 5:34 am on the 7th, the first Spring Festival travel train G6701 from Beijing slowly left platform 12...
With trains departing from major stations, the 40-day 2023 Spring Festival travel season officially opened.
On January 7, in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, passengers who took the K4562 (Guangzhou-Quxian) train entered the station at Guangzhou Station.
At 0:50 on January 7, the first train K4562 (Guangzhou-Quxian) on the first day of the Spring Festival Transport in Guangzhou departed from Guangzhou Station and will arrive at Quxian Station at 5:12 on January 8.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Chen Jimin
Train tickets for some popular routes on New Year's Eve
This year's Spring Festival travel season begins on January 7 and ends on February 15.
After the adjustment of the epidemic prevention policy, the passenger flow during the Spring Festival this year has rebounded significantly.
Previously, Xu Chengguang, deputy head of the Spring Festival travel team and deputy minister of the Ministry of Transport, pointed out that preliminary analysis and judgment showed that the total passenger flow during the Spring Festival travel period was about 2.095 billion, an increase of 99.5% over the same period last year, and returned to 70.3% of the same period in 2019.
China New Finance and Economics learned from the China National Railway Group that the national railways are expected to send 6.3 million passengers on the first day of the Spring Festival travel season.
According to the person in charge of the Passenger Transport Department of China National Railway Group, this year's Spring Festival travel is the first after the central government has optimized and adjusted the epidemic prevention policy. relatively stable.
A maximum of 6,077 pairs of passenger trains can be operated on pre-holiday peak days, and a maximum of 6,107 pairs of passenger trains can be operated on post-holiday peak days. The maximum passenger capacity has increased by 11% compared with the 2019 Spring Festival travel season before the epidemic.
On January 7, passengers entered the station at Beijing West Railway Station.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Jia Tianyong
It is worth mentioning that on January 7th, the first day of the Spring Festival travel season, superimposed New Year’s Eve train tickets went on sale, and some popular train ticket routes are in short supply.
The same journey travel data shows that as soon as the New Year’s Eve train tickets went on sale at 8:00 am on the 7th, most of the train tickets from Beijing to Wuhan, Changsha, Fuyang, Xi’an, Taiyuan, and Yueyang have been displayed as “standby” status.
The top 5 popular train ticket routes on New Year’s Eve are: Shenzhen-Guangzhou, Guangzhou-Chongqing, Guangzhou-Dazhou, Guangzhou-Nanning, Beijing-Harbin.
The top-ranked departure cities are mainly first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, and the popular destinations are Zhengzhou, Chengdu, Xi'an, Chongqing, Harbin, Taiyuan, Kunming, and Guiyang.
The booking passenger flow is dominated by people returning to their hometowns, among which the core force aged 24-30 accounts for the highest proportion.
Passenger travel radius reaches three-year peak
At the same time as the increase in travel passengers, the travel radius of passengers this year has also reached the peak in three years.
According to data from the Ctrip platform, compared with the average travel radius of 402km for railway travel and 1369km for airplane travel in 2022, as of 9:00 on January 7, the travel radius of railway and air travel orders for the 2023 Spring Festival travel rush reached 692km and 1950km respectively, a year-on-year increase of 72% and 43km. %.
Faced with new situations and changes such as increased passenger flow, dense crowds, and increased operating load during the Spring Festival travel season, airlines have also begun to increase capacity.
Taking China Eastern Airlines as an example, this year’s Spring Festival travel plan plans to invest 753 aircraft, the planned average daily flight frequency exceeds 2,900, and plans to implement more than 6,000 overtime flights. The planned passenger seat kilometers have returned to 87% of the 2019 Spring Festival travel level.
China Eastern Airlines plans to operate 753 aircraft in the 2023 Spring Festival with an average daily frequency of over 2,900.
Photo courtesy of China Eastern Airlines
Statistics predict that Beijing Capital International Airport’s passenger flow on the first day of the Spring Festival travel season will be about 67,000, and then the passenger flow will continue to rise.
Overall, during the Spring Festival travel season this year, Capital Airport is expected to transport 4.822 million passengers, with an average of 121,000 passengers per day; a total of 39,000 flights are guaranteed, with an average of 969 per day.
On the first day of the Spring Festival travel season, Daxing Airport plans to implement 529 flights, and the expected passenger throughput is about 61,500.
Daxing Airport expects that during the Spring Festival travel season in 2023, the travel demand of passengers returning home to visit relatives and travel will increase significantly, and the airport business volume will recover rapidly.
In addition, Shanghai Airport Group expects that during the Spring Festival travel season this year, Shanghai Pudong and Hongqiao will have 66,240 flights and 6.5 million passengers. Among them, the average daily flight volume is 1,656 and the average daily passenger flow is 164,000.
In January, flight volume and passenger flow are expected to increase by 42.1% and 46.8% month-on-month.
As a popular tourist destination in winter, Sanya's passenger flow has also been increasing recently.
Sanya Airport is expected to transport 16,000 flights and 2.738 million passengers during the 40 days of Spring Festival travel.
The reporter inquired on the booking platform and found that the price of a one-way ticket from Beijing to Sanya on New Year's Eve generally exceeds 1,000 yuan, and the highest price even exceeds 4,000 yuan.
Data map: Air China added flight 946 to welcome the Spring Festival travel of Chengdu Civil Aviation.
Photo courtesy of Air China Southwest Branch
No slack in epidemic prevention, the taste of the new year is getting stronger
This year is the first Spring Festival travel after the further optimization of China's epidemic prevention policy.
Earlier, the railway department has made it clear that it advocates staggered travel for passengers, reduces the gathering of people, strengthens the organization of passenger flow at stations, actively promotes non-contact services, and guides passengers to enter and wait in stations in an orderly manner, keeping a safe distance.
The Civil Aviation Administration also made it clear that it is necessary to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control, continue to guide passenger flow, reduce passenger gatherings, provide passengers with non-contact services as much as possible, and do a good job of health testing for front-line employees, and clean, disinfect and ventilate key places to reduce the number of passengers. Passengers are at risk of infection, allowing passengers to travel with peace of mind.
Beijing West Railway Station spokesman Liang Zhaoyu said in an interview that the station will strengthen ventilation and increase the frequency of disinfection to create a healthy and safe travel environment for passengers.
The pace of returning home makes the taste of the year stronger and stronger.
The reporter noticed that on the first day of the Spring Festival travel, in many trains and station areas, Spring Festival couplets, blessing characters, Chinese knots and other Spring Festival elements more and more appeared in people's vision.
On January 7, on the platform of Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, the crew of the G1373 train from Shanghai Hongqiao to Kunming South took a group photo with passengers.
On that day, the 2023 Spring Festival Transport officially started.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Yin Liqin
On the way of Spring Festival travel, many trains in the Hangzhou Passenger Transport Section put up window grilles and hung strings of lanterns to send Spring Festival couplets and blessings to passengers.
In order to create a strong festive atmosphere, Beijing Capital Airport has created two themed landscapes of "Jade Rabbit" in Terminal 2 and "Jade Rabbit Nafu" in Terminal 2 with "Jade Rabbit" as the core. The escalators, information desks and other places are decorated with "Spring Festival welcome landscape" New Year posters, conveying sincere festival blessings to Chinese and foreign tourists, enriching the travel experience.
The Shanghai Railway Station set up green planting landscapes, hung red lanterns, and Chinese knots in each station area, and carried out Spring Festival couplets and blessing activities.
In order to welcome the arrival of the Spring Festival travel season, the Shanghai Passenger Transport Section also specially made a KT board for the Year of the Rabbit for the flight attendants to interact with passengers and check in and take pictures.
The red gift bag printed with the words "Warm Way Home" and the pattern of the Year of the Rabbit contains N95 masks and alcohol-disinfected cotton pads, adding a lot of happiness to passengers on their way home.
Are you ready to go home for the Spring Festival this year?
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