China News Service, March 25. According to the China Railway WeChat official account, today is March 25, and all train tickets for the Qingming Festival holiday are on sale. If you haven't bought a round-trip ticket for your holiday trip, you can choose the official "missing tool" - the waiting ticket purchase function of Railway 12306.
Each passenger can submit 6 waiting orders to be redeemed, and up to 9 passengers can be added to each order. When passengers submit a waiting order, they can choose any 3 travel dates within the pre-sale period, and can choose up to 60 "date + train" combinations in total, with multiple seats available for each train.
The deadline for cashing out waitlisted orders is 20 minutes before departure at the latest. Passengers can choose to modify the deadline based on actual conditions. Temporarily added passenger train seats will be allocated first to passengers who have submitted waiting orders. When submitting a waiting order, passengers can choose to accept the purchase of new passenger train tickets that meet their travel needs. If the railway department temporarily adds new passenger trains, when the tickets go on sale, Railway 12306 will automatically give priority to passengers who have submitted waiting orders. Passengers do not need to manually check the information of additional trains and then purchase tickets.
common problem
Q: How to pay for standby ticket orders?
Answer: Prepayment is required for waitlisted tickets, which is calculated based on the maximum amount of tickets in different combinations of orders (sleeper berth is calculated as the lower berth fare).
After the prepayment for the waitlisted ticket is successfully paid, the system will continue to try to honor your waitlisted demand. If there are tickets that match your demand, the system will automatically generate a paid order for you. If the prepayment is greater than the actual ticket price, the system will automatically refund the difference in tickets. If the seat cannot meet your needs, the redemption will be automatically terminated at the redemption deadline. If the user voluntarily terminates or the system automatically terminates the waiting list, the system will automatically refund the full amount of the advance payment.
Railway 12306 waitlist ticket purchase does not charge any handling fee.
Q: What are the redemption rules for waitlisted tickets?
Answer: The submission time of waiting orders is consistent with the operation hours of the 12306 website (including mobile clients); the redemption time of waiting orders is 24 hours; the waiting time is terminated no later than 20 minutes before driving.
You can set the redemption termination time when submitting a waitlist order, or you can modify and actively terminate the redemption at any time after submitting a waitlist order. (no later than the latest termination time)
When the system cashes out standby tickets based on the booking requirements submitted by users, in principle, it does so in the order in which the order takes effect. Partial redemption of the same standby ticket will not be performed.
Q: How do I know if I have successfully purchased a ticket on the waiting list?
Answer: Please log in to 12306 to check the status of the waitlisted order in time. The waitlisted cashing result shall be subject to the order query result.
Push notification messages will be sent through the notification channel selected by the user (SMS, WeChat or Alipay) when the waiting order is successfully redeemed, fails to be redeemed, or is automatically refunded. When the message is pushed, an email notification will also be sent (the user's email address must be activated).
Image source: China Railway WeChat official account