Today (3rd) is the ninth day of the Spring Festival, and according to the pre-sale regulations of 15 days in advance, passengers can buy train tickets for February 17, the eighth day of the first lunar month, to prepare for work after the Spring Festival. What skills can passengers master when buying tickets in advance?
First of all, get an accurate grasp of the pre-sale period. The pre-sale period of train tickets is 15 days, including the day of ticket purchase, and for tickets outside the pre-sale period, passengers can click on the reminder function on the 12306 ticket purchase calendar, which is equivalent to giving themselves an alarm clock, at that time, the 12306 system will automatically remind passengers that the ticket purchase date has arrived.
Second, the information is pre-filled. From 0:00 on the day of the pre-sale period to the starting time of the ticket departure station, passengers can pre-fill in the ticket purchase information in advance, so as to submit it as soon as the ticket is sold and the ticket is released, saving the waiting time in the online queue.
Third, make full use of the waitlist expansion rules. According to this year's new rules, the number of standby orders that can be submitted by each passenger will be increased from two to six, and a maximum of nine passengers can be added to each order, and the number of standby options will also be multiplied.
Shan Xinghua, chief researcher of China Academy of Railway Sciences and deputy director of the Railway 12306 Science and Technology Innovation Center: Originally, you can choose two adjacent dates, 5 trains per date, and a maximum of 10 needs, but now we have expanded it to choose any three dates, and the cumulative number can reach 60 trains and dates.
In addition, Railway 12306 has also launched a ticketing service area for students and migrant workers. Students who have passed the student discount qualification verification and have the remaining preferential rides can make an appointment to purchase train tickets during the Spring Festival travel period, that is, from January 26 to March 5, through the "Special Service for Student Winter Vacation Ticket Booking" area. Each passenger can submit a maximum of 6 reservation orders at the same time, and each order can add a combination of 20 "train number + seats" for 1 travel date, and the optional seats are hard seats, hard sleepers, and second-class seats for student discount tickets.
Migrant workers who have passed the real-name verification can make an appointment to purchase train tickets during the Spring Festival travel through the "Reservation and Booking Service for Migrant Workers", and each passenger can submit 6 reservation orders at the same time, and each order can choose 1 combination of "time + train number + seat".
Shan Xinghua, Chief Researcher of China Academy of Railway Sciences and Deputy Director of Railway 12306 Science and Technology Innovation Center: After the reservation is completed, on the 16th day before the train starts, our railway will cash out the tickets, and after the cashing, the students or migrant workers will be notified immediately by SMS, and they can complete the payment, and they will buy the tickets after payment.