The 2024 Spring Festival travel will officially start tomorrow. It is predicted that during the entire Spring Festival travel period, railways across the country will send 480 million passengers. How will the railway increase its transportation capacity supply this year? What are the convenient service measures available? What are the strategies for grabbing tickets when faced with the difficulty of obtaining one ticket? Spring Festival travel observation takes you to understand together. The railway is experiencing a peak in ticket sales before the Spring Festival travel festival, where are tickets tight? Where are there still remaining tickets? On January 23rd, Railway 12306 began selling tickets for February 6th (the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month), with a total of 18.937 million tickets sold nationwide, entering the peak of ticket sales before the Spring Festival travel festival. This peak of ticket sales is expected to continue until January 26th. Since the launch of railway Spring Festival travel ticket sales on January 12th, a total of 190 million train tickets have been sold, including 61.08 million tickets during the Spring Festival travel period, a year-on-year increase of 159%. The highest daily ticket sales of Railway 12306 reached 18.937 million, and the highest daily traffic reached 62.92 billion times. From the current pre-sale situation, from February 3rd to 6th, tickets from Shenzhen to Guiyang, Shenzhen to Nanning, Shenzhen to Wuhan, Shenzhen to Chongqing, Guangzhou to Chongqing, Guangzhou to Guiyang, Guangzhou to Wuhan, Beijing to Harbin and other directions are relatively tight. During the pre-sale period, there are still available tickets for some trains from Guangzhou to Chengdu, Guangzhou to Nanchang, Shanghai to Wuhan, Shanghai to Beijing, Shanghai to Qingdao, Beijing to Changchun, Beijing to Shenyang, Beijing to Jinan, Beijing to Datong, and Beijing to Hohhot. Passengers can purchase them in a timely manner. To improve the success rate of ticket purchases, it is recommended to choose off peak behavior to increase the success rate of ticket purchases. The railway department suggests that passengers can choose off peak travel or use the railway 12306 standby ticket purchasing function to submit multiple standby orders with a combination of "date+train number+seat type" and extend the waiting redemption time. The railway department will also further tap into the transportation potential based on the waiting situation, and try to meet the ticket purchasing needs of passengers as much as possible. At the same time, Railway 12306 provides a transfer ticket purchasing function. Passengers who have not purchased a direct ticket can choose this function to purchase segmented tickets for intermediate transfer travel. Railway 12306 also stated that the following tips can improve the success rate of ticket purchases: ① Check the start time of sales and set sales reminders; ② Pre fill in ticket purchase information; ③ Ticket purchase+standby ticket purchase; ④ Transfer. To cope with the peak of ticket sales during the Spring Festival travel rush, a series of effective measures have been launched. The first is to increase the investment in passenger transportation capacity. The railway department will fully utilize the advantages of high-speed rail network operation, especially make good use of the transportation resources of new lines and stations such as Hangchang High Speed Railway, Jizheng High Speed Railway, and Guangzhou Baiyun Station opened last year, coordinate high-speed railways and conventional railways, and increase passenger capacity investment. On the basis of the first quarter operation chart implemented on January 10th, dynamic tracking of passenger flow changes, timely preparation of the Spring Festival travel train operation chart, and further increase passenger capacity, it is expected to arrange about 12700 passenger trains per day before the holiday and about 12800 passenger trains per day after the holiday, with passenger capacity increasing by 14.4% and 12.6% respectively compared to the 2019 Spring Festival travel. The second is to scientifically match transportation capacity with passenger flow demand. During the Spring Festival travel period, the railway department will adopt measures such as adding temporary passenger trains, multiple unit operation of high-speed trains, and regular speed based on the waiting ticket purchase data of Railway 12306