Beijing News (Reporter Pei Jianfei) Starting tomorrow (December 24), passengers can buy train tickets for the first day of the Spring Festival travel season, and January 7 for train tickets for January 21 (New Year’s Eve).
The 2023 Railway Spring Festival Transport will start on January 7 and end on February 15, a total of 40 days.
According to the current 15-day pre-sale period for railway tickets, on December 24, 2022, passengers can purchase train tickets for the first day of the Spring Festival travel season in 2023.
The 2023 Spring Festival holiday is from January 21, 2023 (New Year's Eve) to 27 (the sixth day of the first month), a total of 7 days.
According to the current pre-sale period regulations, train tickets for January 19 (twelfth lunar month) can be purchased on January 5, train tickets for January 20 (twelfth lunar month) can be purchased on January 6, and train tickets for January 7 can be purchased Purchase train tickets on January 21 (New Year's Eve), and on January 13 you can purchase return train tickets on January 27 (the sixth day of the first month).
It should be noted that the starting time of online ticket sales at different train stations is not the same.
Taking Beijing as an example, Beijing West Railway Station and Beijing Fengtai Station sell at 8:00, Beijing Railway Station and Beijing Chaoyang Station sell at 10:00, Beijing North Railway Station sells at 12:00 noon, Beijing South Railway Station sells at 12:30 noon, Qinghe Station Sale starts at 16:00.
The reporter learned that recently, as the national railway passenger flow continues to grow, the railway department is gradually restoring the number of trains running.
According to the predictions of some third-party ticketing agencies, due to the adjustment of the epidemic prevention policy, the travel demand for New Year's Day and Spring Festival this year will increase significantly, especially when the tourist passenger flow and the demand for returning home are superimposed, and the railway and civil aviation markets will experience long-lost passenger flow "peaks".
Some institutions also predict that this year's railway Spring Festival travel passenger flow will rise to close to the pre-epidemic level.
In addition, starting from January 1, 2023, new regulations will be implemented for children's tickets. Children's discount tickets and children's free rides will be divided into preferential standards based on age, and real-name management will be implemented for child passengers.
Children traveling with adults, who are over 6 years old and under 14 years old, should buy children's discount tickets; those over 14 years old should buy full-price tickets.
Each ticket-holding adult passenger can bring one child under the age of 6 who does not occupy a seat alone on the bus for free. If there is more than one child, the excess number should purchase a child discount ticket.
Children's ages are calculated on the date of travel.
(Beijing News)