What time does the Spring Festival start, and the tickets are reserved for a few days

January 28, 2021.

The 2021 Spring Festival will start on January 28, 2021 and end on March 8, 2021, for a total of 40 days. Based on the current train ticket pre-sale period of 30 days, train tickets for the first day of the 2021 Spring Festival will go on sale today.

In 2021, the national railway is expected to send 100 million passengers, with an average of 10.18 million passengers per day. In order to actively respond to the national "reverse" family visit initiative and guide passengers to travel off-peak, the railway department has expanded the scope of fare discounts, with a minimum of 2% off some ordinary speed train tickets and a minimum 55% discount on bullet train tickets.

The 2020 Spring Festival will start and end on January 28, 2021 (the sixteenth day of the lunar month) and end on March 1, 2021 (the twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month); The Spring Festival is generally 40 days long.

Regardless of whether you are in the Lunar New Year, you must strive to go home in this festival and spend this day with your family. And during the New Year, everyone has to prepare several days in advance, clean up before the year, buy New Year's goods, pay New Year's greetings after the New Year, visit relatives and friends, and the whole festival will last for nearly a month.

The "2021 Spring Festival" refers to a Spring Festival transportation in which a large number of migrant workers return to their hometowns during the Spring Festival holiday. 40 days starting January 28, 2021.

The Spring Festival generally lasts for 40 days, starting from the fifteenth or sixteenth day of the lunar month of the current year and ending on the twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month of the following year. The 2019 Spring Festival starts and ends on January 21, 2019 (the sixteenth day of the lunar month) and ends on March 1, 2019 (the twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month).

Ticket sales for the Spring Festival will start on December 24, 2022.

In accordance with the 15-day pre-sale period of railway tickets, from December 24, the railway department officially launched the Spring Festival ticket sales work, and on the same day, travelers can buy train tickets on January 7, 2023 (the first day of the Spring Festival).

By analogy, tickets for the traditional peak travel period of Lunar Month 28 (January 19), Lunar Month 29 (January 20), and Chinese New Year's Eve (January 21) will be on sale on January 5, 6, and 7, 2023, respectively.

Precautions

It is worth noting that from January 1, 2023, new regulations will be implemented for children's tickets, and children's preferential tickets and children's free rides will be divided by age, and child passengers will be managed under the real-name system. Children who are at least 6 years old and under 14 years old when traveling with an adult shall purchase a child discount ticket; Applicants over the age of 14 should purchase a full-price ticket.

Each adult passenger with a ticket can bring one child under the age of 6 who does not occupy a separate seat for free, and if there is more than one person, a child discount ticket shall be purchased for the excess number of passengers.

The 2022 Spring Festival starts on January 17 and ends on February 25.

The reporter learned from the Ministry of Transport on the 24th that the Spring Festival in 2022 is expected to send 100 million passengers, with an average of 26.25 million passengers per day, a year-on-year increase over 2021. Specifically, it is estimated that railways, highways, waterways, and civil aviation will send 100 million, 100 million, 16.3 million, and 39.2 million passengers respectively.

Judging from the trend of passenger flow, travel after the holiday is relatively concentrated. The pre-holiday passenger flow is mainly concentrated in January 27 to January 30, the highest peak appeared on January 29, reaching 10,000 people, and the post-holiday passenger flow was mainly concentrated in February 6 to 9, and February 16 to 20, with the highest peak of 28.38 million on February 8 and 32.16 million on February 19.

Ticket purchase is secure

During the Spring Festival, the density is higher, and there are more crimes such as theft, robbery and fraud than usual. For the items carried by passengers, the inspection is often stricter than usual, and it is strictly forbidden to carry flammable, explosive and other dangerous goods on the bus and board.

In terms of transport safety, rail transport is the safer way, but many trains are overloaded. In terms of road transportation, many passenger transport companies often take the way of running fast and working for a long time in order to make more money in the Spring Festival, so that drivers are often in a state of exhaustion at work and are prone to car accidents.

In addition, some cars are overloaded, forming traffic hazards. Therefore, ** also began to focus on rectifying problems such as fatigue driving and overloading during the Spring Festival. In order to prevent air crashes, China** banned red-eye flights during the Spring Festival travel period.

The Spring Festival begins on the 15th day of the lunar month and ends on the 25th day of the first month of the following year.

January 30, 2022 (28 Lunar Month 31 (Lunar Month 29) is the peak travel period, and train tickets will be sold from January 16 and 17, 2022; February 5, 2022 (the fifth day of the first lunar month) and February 6 (the sixth day of the first lunar month) will welcome the first wave of post-holiday return peaks, and the return ticket grabbing dates are January 18, 2020 and January 19, 2020.

Returning home for the Spring Festival in 2021, using e-tickets will become a new experience for many passengers. Passengers don't have to queue up to get tickets, they can directly swipe their ID cards or dynamic *** to enter the station and take the train.

Spring Festival train ticket missing tips

1. Don't worry if you don't grab the ticket at the first time when the ticket goes on sale, there are still 5 opportunities for passengers to "pick up the leak".

2. 30 minutes after the start of sales, if passengers fail to pay in time, the tickets will be returned to the system for sale.

3. 15 days before departure is the peak period for refunds.

4. 48 hours and 24 hours before departure, the system will release part of the remaining tickets.

5. Generally, 22 o'clock to 23 o'clock is the peak of refunds.

6. Each stop has a certain percentage of the allocated ticket amount, if there are unsold tickets, the remaining tickets will be again the day before departure.