The reporter learned from the China Railway Group today that the 62-day 2024 national railway summer transportation will be launched. This summer, the demand for students, tourists, relatives and other travel is strong, and the national railway is expected to send 860 million passengers, with an average of 13.87 million passengers per day.
According to reports, from July 1 to August 31, the railway passenger flow will remain at a high level, and the national railway will send an average of 13.87 million passengers per day. The railway department has increased the investment of transport capacity, and on the basis of the implementation of the peak train operation map in the third quarter, 276 temporary passenger trains have been arranged every day, and about 11,500 passenger trains are planned to be operated every day. In popular directions, temporary passenger trains will be added, EMUs will be reconnected, and general-speed trains will be added to increase capacity. In addition, the railway department also actively promotes new ticketing services such as time-counting tickets, commuter tickets, and travel packages during the summer transportation period.
Guo Liuming, Deputy Director of the Passenger Transport Department of the Beijing Bureau of the National Railway: The Beijing Bureau has promoted and implemented the time-counting ticket and commuter ticket business in the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway and the Beijing-Xiongxiong intercity this summer. After purchasing a time-counting ticket or commuter pass, passengers can take the designated train multiple times within the validity period without the need to purchase a separate ticket each time.
The "Guilin-Liuzhou-Nanning-Beihai" tourism time-counting ticket product has been officially launched, and passengers can enjoy a 9% discount on the average ticket price when they purchase it, and can enjoy a ticket to Guilin, Liuzhou, Nanning, and Beihai in 12 days.
During the summer season, the tourist season is expected to be ushered in across the country. The Chengdu Bureau of the National Railway continues to open the "Panda Special Train" and the Sichuan-Qingdao Railway EMU Tourist Train; The Xinjiang railway department has strengthened the organization of special tourist trains, and plans to run 39 special tourist trains; The Shenyang Bureau of the National Railway plans to open 67 customized tourist trains in the directions of Arshan, Changbai Mountain, Zhusihua and Hailar to fully meet the travel needs of passengers during the summer travel period.
The railway department reminds that the railway 12306 website (including mobile phone client) is the only official online ticketing channel for train tickets, so please be sure to buy tickets through official channels. The passenger flow in the summer is relatively concentrated, so passengers and friends are requested to arrange their itinerary reasonably, travel off-peak as much as possible, and reserve sufficient time to enter the station and take the bus.
Civil aviation has increased its investment in transportation capacity to serve the travel needs of summer passengers
In terms of civil aviation, during the summer travel period, major airlines will do a good job in capacity deployment, optimize the route network layout in the direction of hot tourist cities, and meet the travel needs of passengers.
In response to the hot spots in China, Air China focused on increasing capacity in hot cities such as Xinjiang, Chengdu-Chongqing, Shandong, and Hainan, with an average of 1,444 domestic flights per day during the summer vacation, an increase of nearly 40% over the summer of 2019.
During the summer season, China Eastern Airlines will deploy nearly 800 passenger aircraft, including 6 domestic large aircraft C919, and carry out 1,002 passenger routes, covering 249 destinations at home and abroad. An average of 3,213 passenger flights per day are planned, and international and regional flights have recovered to 102% of the same period in 2019.
China Southern Airlines' new and encrypted domestic routes are mainly concentrated in popular tourist cities in Xinjiang, Northeast China, Northwest China, North China and other places, and new routes between Shanghai, Shenzhen, Yinchuan, Changchun, Wuhan and Harbin and Altay.
In order to meet the travel needs of passengers during the summer travel period, Sanya Airport actively coordinates with airlines to allocate capacity, optimize the route network layout, encrypt routes in key source cities, and replace wide-body aircraft to carry out flights in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places to meet the travel needs of passengers.
Quan Xiaoyi, Vice President of Sanya Phoenix International Airport: Volunteers will be dispatched to check-in, special passenger service areas and other places to provide service guarantees, and open green channels for college freshmen to improve travel efficiency and help passengers travel smoothly.
During the summer season, Hainan Airlines operated more than 500 domestic routes, covering more than 80 cities, including 20 new routes.
Zhang Naifu, deputy director of the marketing committee of Hainan Airlines: It is estimated that the number of domestic and foreign flights will be 864 per day during the summer travel period, an increase of 10.6% compared with the summer of 2023. During July and August, a maximum of 221 aircraft were put into operation, including 66 wide-body aircraft. (CCTV reporter Wang Shantao)