At Guangzhou South Railway Station, passengers queue up in an orderly manner to enter the station.
The balance of the Spring Festival holiday is about to be exhausted, and the Spring Festival has ushered in the peak of return. On February 16, the seventh day of the first lunar month, the national railway is expected to send 15.3 million passengers, and 1,813 additional passenger trains will be arranged. According to the person in charge of the passenger transport department of China Railway Group, the Spring Festival holiday has come to an end, and the return passenger flow of the railway continues to rise.
The Spring Festival has never been a tiger's tail, and it is imperative to ensure people's smooth return. To do this, everything needs to be taken into account, including supply and demand based on train and flight schedules, as well as natural factors such as weather conditions.
The demand for return tickets for the Spring Festival is not new, and this situation is especially evident when the travel scene is condensed to an island with limited transportation options - Hainan Island, as a popular tourist destination for the Spring Festival, has a long-lost return difficulty this year. from the beginning of the year.
From the fifth and sixth days of the Lunar New Year, the queue of vehicles out of Hainan Island and the difficulty of finding a ticket have been on the hot search of various social platforms. The report mentioned that Hainan outlying island air tickets have skyrocketed, and the return economy class tickets are basically sold out, and many flights have only a small number of business class tickets of tens of thousands of yuan, even if they choose to transfer, they will cost tens of thousands of yuan. And other ways to leave the island is not easy, many self-driving tourists concentrate on the island, the vehicle queue is long, and there has been a strategy for tourists to leave the island by boat, take a taxi, take a train to Zhanjiang, Guangdong and then go home. The difficulty of outlying the island can be seen.
In order to solve the problem of Hainan Island's difficulty in leaving the island, various departments have made a lot of efforts in the areas of air and land transportation. On the aviation front, the Civil Aviation Administration of China has agreed to increase Hainan capacity, and the airlines concerned are submitting plans. According to reports, many airlines, including Hainan Airlines, China Southern Airlines, and Air China, have increased the capacity of Hainan Island, or used wide-body aircraft to alleviate the tight flow of returning passengers in Hainan. With the gradual increase in capacity, the ticket price of flights to Hainan Island has decreased. In terms of land routes, in order to meet the demand for cars out of the island, Haikou New Port and Xiuying Port further optimized the ship capacity, and increased the sale of tickets for the island, and the new port also added a special class for new energy cars to go out of the island on February 16, with a ticket volume of about 100 vehicles. It can be said that all departments are trying their best to alleviate the problem of Hainan Island's difficulties, but the "migrant workers" who are deeply trapped on the island may still need to show their own talents. After all, the lawyer has reminded that not buying a return ticket cannot be used as a reason for exemption, and if you do not ask for leave, you will still be treated as absenteeism.
The weather conditions are more worthy of attention and the impact is more widespread during this Chinese New Year. When the Spring Festival began this year, some areas have already suffered from freezing rain and heavy snow, and the weather forecast shows that bad weather will occur again during the return peak. **The Meteorological Observatory predicts that the cold wave weather from February 17 to 22 will affect China, and freezing rain will occur again in Hubei, Hunan and other places that have just experienced the strongest rain, snow and freezing weather in 15 years before the Spring Festival. **The chief forecaster of the Meteorological Observatory said that the risk of traffic weather in the Northeast region, the eastern part of the Northwest Region, North China, Huanghuai, and most of the south to the south of the Yangtze River is relatively high, and it is prone to snow and ice accumulation on the roads, causing traffic congestion. Before the Spring Festival, due to the lack of experience in dealing with freezing rain, the response speed in some places was not fast enough, and the road ice and snow were not cleared in time, resulting in large-scale highway traffic congestion. Nowadays, the Spring Festival return peak has come, and all localities need to summarize the pre-holiday experience, and clean up the snow as soon as possible in a scientific and professional way to prevent the road surface from freezing when it is not icing, so as to avoid problems such as highway detention in the return peak again.
The situation of Hainan Islands is difficult to find is unsolved, and the freezing rain in the central region is coming again. Under such circumstances, the peak of the return journey of the Spring Festival has begun, and how to ensure the smooth return of everyone requires precautionary preparations and thoughtful consideration. Send everyone home safely as soon as possible, and this Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon will be considered a success.