Spring Festival train tickets"Tickets are hard to come by": 12306 shows no tickets, but third-party platforms such as Ctrip do have tickets.
The phenomenon of "hard to find" train tickets for the Spring Festival has made many people looking forward to going home feel anxious. 12306** shows no tickets, but third-party platforms such as Ctrip do, what is going on?
First of all, we must understand the main reason why it is difficult to grab train tickets for the Spring Festival: demand exceeds supply. China is a country with a large population, especially during the Spring Festival, where hundreds of millions of people have a strong need to return home. However, railways, automobiles, airplanes, and other means of transportation have limited transport capacity and cannot meet the needs of all at the same time. This has led to the phenomenon of "hard to find" train tickets for the Spring Festival.
At the same time, due to the holiday season, people want to go home within a specific time period, making demand more concentrated and supply difficult to meet. Especially on 12306**, due to a large number of users rushing to buy tickets at the same time, the success rate of ticket purchase is greatly reduced. Many users reported that even if they started grabbing tickets early, they always showed no tickets.
However, on third-party platforms such as Ctrip, there is a very different phenomenon from 12306**. These platforms show that tickets are available and even offer the service of starting from the intermediate station to make up the ticket. What's going on here? It turns out that these third-party platforms may have their own ticketing algorithms, and they will buy a certain station that is not popular first, and then pay the ticket to the terminal. It takes a little more time and expense, but it's worth it for those who need to get home urgently.
Another situation is that there are many people on 12306** who grabbed tickets but did not pay. In this case, one ticket will take up to 10 minutes. If payment is not made after 10 minutes, the ticket is put back on the market. This also explains why no tickets are always displayed on 12306**, while there are tickets on third-party platforms.
In response to this phenomenon, experts recommend that travelers choose to waitlist for tickets. When passengers check that there are no remaining tickets for the train, the word standby will appear in the list. Passengers can click on the waiting area corresponding to the corresponding train seat according to their needs. The system will add the traveler's request to the current waitlist for ticket purchase. In this way, the probability of successful ticket purchase will be greatly increased.
The problem of "hard to find" train tickets for the Spring Festival cannot be solved overnight. Under the current circumstances, we hope that the railway authorities can optimize the ticketing mechanism and improve the success rate of ticket purchases, so that every passenger can go home smoothly for a warm Spring Festival. At the same time, passengers are also reminded to pay attention to safety when purchasing tickets and carefully choose ticket purchase channels to avoid unnecessary losses.
In short, the problem of "hard to find" train tickets for the Spring Festival is a concentrated embodiment of the contradiction between supply and demand. We hope that through the efforts of the railway sector and the concerns of society, this problem can be alleviated. Let's look forward to a more convenient and humanized Spring Festival ticketing environment.