The "height restriction order" explicitly prohibits "height limit" personnel from taking flights, but there are still ticketing companies that can provide ticketing services for them.
Recently, The Paper reporter investigated a number of platforms and found that many ticketing companies posted pushes or videos on their social platform accounts or short video platforms that can issue tickets for "height limit" personnel. The reporter consulted as a "height limit" person, and the relevant companies all said that tickets could be issued.
Why are the "height limit" personnel under the "height restriction order" repeatedly banned from taking airplanes? According to insiders, although the law prohibits it, there are indeed loopholes to be exploited, and ticketing companies often use passports, overseas booking systems and other methods to evade system restrictions for "height limit" personnel and realize ticket purchase.
The Paper noted that the "height limit" personnel taking the plane is a violation of the "Civil Procedure Law", and many places have carried out targeted special operations to crack down.
On social platforms, ticketing companies have published a number of articles on ticketing for people with height restrictions
The ticketing company said publicly
Tickets can be purchased for "height limit" personnel
After listening to a friend at the party, Mr. Xue was a little afraid that the debtor who had not fulfilled his repayment obligation to himself would "run away" through this way, so he opened his mobile phone to search for relevant information, "I didn't expect that a casual search for 'height limit to buy air tickets' would find a lot of content, all of which are companies that can provide air tickets for 'height limit' personnel, isn't it illegal?" ”
According to the Several Provisions of the Supreme People's Court on Restricting High Consumption and Related Consumption of Persons Subject to Enforcement, if the person subject to enforcement fails to perform the payment obligations determined in the effective legal documents within the period specified in the enforcement notice, the people's court may restrict his high consumption. The "height limit" measures include restrictions on taking airplanes, soft sleeper trains, second-class or higher cabins on ships, all seats on G-prefix EMU trains, and first-class or above seats on other EMU trains.
In order to verify, Mr. Xue contacted a ticketing account on a social platform on his own, falsely claiming to be a "height limiter" and wanted to buy a ticket from Guangzhou to Urumqi. Screenshots of the chat show that the other party said that they could issue tickets, but the price was more than double that displayed on the ticket booking platform. The other party also said, "A lot of data is going on our side every day, and it has never been blocked, so there can be no problem of being blocked." ”
The surging news reporter learned that the account consulted by Mr. Xue is "LJ Territory Business Travel", which is certified as a ticket and ticketing agency on the platform, and the full name of the subject is "Chengdu Territory Entry and Exit Service Co., Ltd."
The account has repeatedly posted "The dishonest person is on a plane" and "The height limit? Promise? How do I travel by plane? and other articles, in which it introduces information such as "At present, the system of some provinces in China has not been updated, and after the height is restricted, you can use your passport to issue tickets" and other information. The article also suggests that "more inquiries can be poked in the comment area".
The surging news noticed that searching for "buying air tickets with height limit" on the above platform can indeed find a large number of articles, most of which are ticket companies, and there are ticketing accounts that pin the post of "buy air tickets with height limit" to the top. In the comment area, many people said "I want to buy a ticket", "how to buy", etc., and some people said that they had successfully traveled.
The short video platform ticketing company said that "travel is restricted, and the ticket is worry-free"
The "height limit order" was pointed out
There are still "holes" to be exploited
The Paper reporter contacted a ticketing company on the above-mentioned platform as a "height limit" person. After adding WeChat, the other party said, "You only need to provide a photo of the first page of your passport or a photo of your ID card to buy a ticket for people with height restrictions." ”
The reporter proposed to buy a round-trip ticket from Hangzhou to Urumqi, and the other party quickly quoted 6,460 yuan, but said that he could only book "the routes of several fixed airlines such as China Southern Airlines and Air China".
How exactly are tickets issued for "height limit" personnel? Will it be blocked? The staff member said that the specific operation is inconvenient to disclose, but it can guarantee the issuance of tickets, "We have a lot of orders every day, and there are many old customers after a long time." This market is very large, there are new ones every day, and a lot of data is going on our side every day, and it has never been blocked, so there can be no problem of being blocked. ”
The surging news reporter's investigation found that not only on social platforms, but also on short video platforms to search for "height limit tickets", you can also search for many videos claiming to be able to buy air tickets for "height limit" people.
The reporter contacted a ticket agent account on the short video platform as a "height limit" person. The relevant sales staff said that they did not rely on the "airport relationship" to issue tickets, but "technology", "we are making international air tickets, the domestic height limit is only valid in China, we can bypass the restriction by buying tickets abroad, and the object of the 'height limit' can buy tickets with passports and ID cards, but the passport will be better, and no one checks."
He said that after the ticket purchase is successful, the staff will issue the e-ticket to the customer and check in in advance, so that the customer can board the plane directly without picking up the ticket at the airport. He also reminded that since check-ins require information registration, customers are advised to "take as few things as possible and pack their luggage in carry-on suitcases or briefcases".
An insider engaged in tourist air ticket booking told The Paper that although the "height limit order" has a clear ban on taking planes, there are actually some "loopholes" that can be exploited. As a person in the industry, he said that some ticketing companies generally provide ticket ordering services for "height limit" personnel through two ways: one is passport, and the height limit measures of some courts are usually based on the ID number of the person subject to enforcement, and there are no measures to restrict the person subject to enforcement from leaving the country, so the person subject to enforcement can purchase tickets through his passport, "and some ticketing will let the 'height limit' person reissue a new passport and use the new passport number to buy a ticket."
The second is to purchase air tickets through overseas systems or overseas airlines, "At present, the Civil Aviation Administration of China only supervises domestic airlines, and can bypass supervision through overseas booking systems." Some overseas booking systems only need to provide the pinyin of the name to book a ticket. ”
Some users said that "the travel is successful, it is more reliable"
Multi-platform processing of related accounts,
Crackdowns have been intensified in various localities
The surging news reporter's investigation found that on Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Kuaishou and other platforms, there are ticketing companies that openly claim that they can buy tickets for "height limit" personnel, and many people in the comment area also ask how to buy, and even "height limit" personnel share the experience of successfully taking a plane.
In response to the above situation, the surging news reporter contacted the above-mentioned platforms, and many platforms said that the platform will crack down on the illegal act of providing air tickets for "height limit" personnel, and will strengthen supervision and verification. Since then, after verifying the relevant situation on multiple platforms, multiple ticketing company accounts have been blocked. At the same time, a platform has launched a "warm reminder" saying that if words such as "high height limit air ticket" are involved, it will prompt "abide by national laws and regulations, don't believe in illegal services, and beware of being deceived" on the search page.
In this regard, the surging news reporter contacted a number of airlines, all of which said that regular ticketing channels could not purchase tickets for "height limit" personnel, and airlines would not cooperate with ticketing agents to issue tickets. In the process of purchasing tickets, it is necessary to enter the itinerary, name, ID number, etc. that the customer wants to buy, if it is recorded by the credit information center, the system cannot submit this information, and there will be a process showing that it is a "height limit" person, and the ticket cannot be issued at all.
She said that even if a third-party agency issues tickets for "height limit" personnel through other means, they will be found out during check-in, security checks and other procedures at the airport, "This behavior involves illegal acts, and once discovered, they will be detained and fined."
In cracking down on violations of the "height restriction order" to take flights, all localities have also spared no effort. At the beginning of 2024, the Executive Bureau of the Beijing Daxing District People's Court and the Daxing Airport Public Security Bureau jointly established a joint control mechanism to crack down on flight violations of the height restriction order. Recently, the Beijing Daxing International Airport Branch of the Capital Airport Public Security Bureau notified the Daxing Court that Gao, a "height limiter" person, wanted to take a flight from Beijing at Daxing Airport. After receiving the news, the command center of the Beijing Chaoyang Court quickly went to Daxing Airport and detained the person subject to execution, Gao, in accordance with the law.
The ticketing company provided the reporter with travel information and said that a "passport" was needed to buy a ticket.
It is understood that Gao wanted to take advantage of the holiday to go out to play, and accidentally heard that he could buy a ticket through his passport, so he wanted to take a risk, but he didn't expect to be seized at the airport. In this regard, the Beijing Chaoyang Court placed Gao under judicial detention for 15 days and fined 10,000 yuan in accordance with the Civil Procedure Law.
In May 2023, a Shanghai court launched an escalation rectification action against the "height restriction order". Not only cracked down on the illegal flight behavior of "height limit" personnel, 72 people were judicially detained, and 41 people were fined, but also the relevant ticketing platform was searched for by the crime of illegal business operation, and 33 clues were transferred to the public security department on the relevant intermediary platform and the suspected crime of "scalpers".
However, the surging news reporter learned from the investigation that there are still "scalpers" who claim to be able to help the "height limit" personnel issue tickets. In August 2023, the Wuxi Intermediate People's Court issued a judicial recommendation to China Civil Aviation Information Network Co., Ltd., proposing that the company should timely connect with the databases of the public security entry-exit, border inspection and other departments, and update the information of personal passports, exit-entry permits for travelling to and from Hong Kong and Macao, and exit-entry permits for travelling to and from Taiwan, including the information of the resident ID card of the person subject to enforcement of the "height limit". At the same time, a mandatory item of resident ID card information is added to the system, requiring ticket sales agents to collect their resident ID card information and submit it to the system for inspection in the process of providing booking services for Chinese citizens who use personal passports, exit-entry permits for travelling to and from Hong Kong and Macao, and exit-entry permits for travelling to and from Taiwan.
Source: The Paper