Interface News reporter | Ding Jingjing

The May Day holiday this year is from May 1 to May 5.DeadheatnamcoA total of 5 days. According to the railway pre-sale requirement of 15 days in advance, train tickets for the day before Labour Day short holiday (April 30) can be purchased today (April 16).

The time of sale varies from station to station. Take Beijing as an example, it starts at 8 o'clock at Beijing West Station and Beijing Fengtai Station, 10:00 at Beijing Railway Station and Chaoyang Station in Beijing, 12:00 at Beijing North Station, 12:30 at Beijing South Station and 16:00 at Qinghe Station.

Interface News from 12306 enquiries found that once train tickets from Beijing West Station, Beijing Fengtai Station and Beijing Railway Station went on sale today, tickets from Beijing to Zhengzhou, Shijiazhuang, Wuhan, Changsha, Xi'an, Chengdu and other directions quickly sold out, with only a few remaining tickets.

As of 13:00, tickets for popular tourist routes in previous years, such as Beijing to Changsha, Zhengzhou, Chengdu, Xi'an and Wuhan, had all been sold out, and even a large number of waiting trains had been filled.

In addition, recently, tickets to small town tourist destinations that are out of circle due to food and other factors are also very tight, including Beijing to Tianshui, Zibo and other destinations.

In the Yangtze River Delta region, trains from Hangzhou to Nanjing, Hangzhou to Wuxi, Shanghai to Nanjing and Nanjing to Nanchang are basically sold out, with only a few remaining tickets. Among them, there were 152 trains running from Hangzhou to Nanjing on the same day, and as of 13:00 today, only seven trains had a small number of tickets left.

At the same time, words such as # 12306 grabbing tickets # and # waiting for tickets are too outrageous # and so on. Many netizens expressed with emotion that "the button is gray in seconds after the sale, and even the alternate tickets are gone", while some netizens also reflected that "did 12306 really release the tickets?" Even the daytime tickets that were easy to buy are sold out.

The passenger flow during the May Day holiday is mainly tourism and visiting relatives. Compared with Qingming Festival, the May Day holiday is longer, with a wide range of travelers and a higher average daily passenger volume. Data from Qunar platform show that the popular destinations are Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Xi'an, Wuhan, Changsha, Zhengzhou and Hangzhou. The flow of tourists between big cities and tourist cities is more frequent, and the difficulty of buying tickets is no less difficult than that of Spring Festival travel.

According to Chinanews.com, people in the tourism industry have also analyzed that the number of tourists during the May Day holiday this year is expected to be much higher than that in the past few years.

From the departure time, April 30th 16:00-22:00, May 1 6: 00-10:00 passenger travel is more concentrated, the last day (May 5) concentrated return. Train tickets for the first day of May Day short holiday are expected to go on sale tomorrow (April 17), and train tickets for the last day of the May 5 holiday will go on sale on April 21.