How many days in advance to book tickets online?

Each city is different, and the larger city should be 20 days, usually 10 days in advance.

Train tickets for the first day of the 2022 Spring Festival will be sold from the 3rd, and the refund and change services will be newly adjusted.

The 2022 Railway Spring Festival will start on January 17 and end on February 25, a total of 40 days, according to the arrangement of train tickets being sold 15 days in advance, on January 3, 2022, the railway department will start selling train tickets for the 2022 Spring Festival.

Since there is no Chinese New Year's Eve in this year's lunar calendar, Chinese New Year's Eve is the 29th day of the lunar month, that is, January 31. According to the arrangement of the 15-day pre-sale period of train tickets, train tickets for January 27 (January 29) can be purchased on January 15, train tickets for January 28 (January 30) can be purchased on January 16, and train tickets for Chinese New Year's Eve (January 31) can be purchased on January 17, the first day of the Spring Festival. In addition, passengers can purchase return train tickets on February 6 (the sixth day of the first lunar month) on January 23, and train tickets on February 25, the last day of the Spring Festival travel on February 11.

List of the 2022 Spring Festival ticket grabbing time nodes.

Buy your train ticket on January 3, 2022 and January 17, 2022.

The first day of the Spring Festival) January 15, 2022 to buy train tickets January 29, 2022.

January 27, 2022) January 16, 2022 to buy train tickets January 30, 2022.

January 28, 2022) January 17, 2022 to buy train tickets January 31, 2022.

Chinese New Year's Eve) January 23, 2022 to buy train tickets February 6, 2022.

The sixth day of the first lunar month) February 11, 2022 to buy train tickets February 25, 2022.

The last day of the Spring Festival).

From the perspective of railway passenger dispatch, this year will be significantly higher than last year. According to China Railway Group, in the Spring Festival in 2022, the national railway is expected to send 100 million passengers, a year-on-year increase.

In order to adapt to the travel rules of passengers under the conditions of epidemic prevention and control, the railway department has improved the service measures for ticketing and refund and change. These include:

1. Extend the ticketing service hours of 12306** (including mobile app) from 5:00 to 23:30 to 5:00 to 1:00 the next day (except every Tuesday);

2. Provide 24-hour Internet refund service, the refund deadline is extended from 25 minutes before the departure of the station to before the departure, and the 12306 client is added without logging in to the refund channel;

3. The original post-departure ticket change business that can only be handled at the ticket departure station will be handled online, and the electronic ticket change function will be added to the self-service ticketing terminal;

4. The latest deadline for standby ticket purchase is adjusted from 6 hours before departure to 2 hours; Provide passengers with temporary electronic identification for the ride.

Train tickets for the Spring Festival are sold 30 days in advance on the Internet and **, and 28 days in advance at train ticket agencies or train station ticket offices. The number of days of the pre-sale period includes the current day.

12306** is released from 8:00 to 18:00 every day, and new tickets are released every hour and half hour during this time period.

12306** The ticket release time is the same as the ticket release time of the railway station, and the ticket release time point 12306** usually releases the ticket at one time, and at each hour and half hour of the 8:00-18:00 time period, 12306** will update the number of remaining tickets, and put the passengers' refunded and changed tickets back into the ticket library as a spare ticket.

I bought a train ticket 15 days in advance for the Spring Festival rush. According to the arrangement of train tickets to be sold 15 days in advance, since the 3rd of January, the railway department has begun to sell train tickets for the Spring Festival rush. According to the previous travel rules, train tickets are the most sold-after three days before the Spring Festival, and Chinese New Year's Eve falls on the 29th of the lunar month, that is, January 31.

According to the 15-day train ticket pre-sale period, January 17 is the first day of the Spring Festival, and you can buy train tickets for January 31 (Chinese New Year's Eve). According to the holiday arrangement, this year's Spring Festival holiday will be from January 31 to February 6, a total of 7 days. Passengers can purchase a return ticket on February 6 on January 23.

When I go home during the Spring Festival, I have to mention the Spring Festival. In such a period when tickets are hard to find, how far in advance should I buy tickets? Take the 2020 Spring Festival as an example.

The Spring Festival holiday lasts from January 24 to January 30. Generally, the peak time of the Spring Festival lasts about 40 days, from 15 days before the Spring Festival to 25 days after the Spring Festival. According to the regulations of the Ministry of Transport for the 2020 Spring Festival, the Spring Festival will start on January 10 and end on February 18, lasting about 40 days.

Spring Festival rush train tickets are generally issued 30 days in advance or sold by code reputation, so the 2020 Spring Festival rush train tickets can be purchased 30 days in advance. According to the rule of releasing tickets 30 days in advance, it can be seen that the earliest purchase time for train tickets for the 2020 Spring Festival should be December 12, 2019. At this time, you can buy tickets around January 9.

You can buy a train ticket 15 days in advance. The pre-sale period for online ticket sales is 15 days (including the day), and the ticket sales are staggered by region. The pre-sale period at the station and sales office window is 15 days (including the day), and the pre-sale period may be temporarily adjusted by each railway group company, so please pay attention to the station announcement.

Tickets should be purchased at the ticket office of the carrier or the person selling **. In the case of transportation capacity, the carrier or the sales** person shall issue tickets according to the requirements of the ticket purchaser.

Other regulations for train tickets. Passengers must have a soft or hard seat ticket to purchase an expedited ticket. The arrival station for which the expedited ticket is issued must be the stop of the express or special express train.

The transfer station that sells an expedited ticket that requires a transfer train must also be a station with an express train of the same class. When passengers purchase sleeper tickets, the arrival station and seat category of the sleeper ticket must be the same as the arrival station and seat class of the ticket, but for passengers holding passes, sleeper tickets are only sold to the transit station.