Spring Festival travel rush was officially launched in 2024!

On January 26th, 2024 Spring Festival travel rush officially kicked off.

How is the passenger flow in Spring Festival travel rush and Shanxi this year? What adjustments have been made to railway, highway and air routes? What measures have major traffic stations taken to warm their hearts and facilitate the people? On the first day of Spring Festival travel rush, a reporter from Shanxi Cloud Media visited Taiyuan Railway Station, Taiyuan South Station, Taiyuan Airport and Taiyuan Bus Station.

The number of passengers in Taiyuan Railway Station increased slightly compared with last year.

On January 26th, the first day of Spring Festival travel rush, Taiyuan Railway Station was orderly, and the number of passengers increased slightly compared with last year, but it was not crowded.

▲ Passengers leave the station.

The station strictly implements the requirements of "every package must be inspected, every liquid must be inspected, and every doubt must be asked", and strictly checks the security of every inbound passenger to prevent dangerous goods from entering the station.

▲ Passengers pass the security check.

Passengers outside the waiting room check the waiting information of the corresponding train, and the overall passenger flow is relatively stable. Passengers in the waiting room are smooth and orderly, waiting patiently for ticket checking.

▲ Passengers are waiting to check in.

Taiyuan Railway Station’s "Gaimei Helping Room" provides the "Love Relay" service of the station bus, so that special key passengers who need assistive devices can enjoy professional and linked services such as special person’s assistance, special assistive devices, barrier-free access and seamless handover of the station bus from the whole process of entering the station, taking the bus and leaving the station.

▲ Volunteers receive training.

"Spring Festival travel rush has always been a time when student flows, work flows, family visits and tourist flows are intertwined. Especially this year, Spring Festival travel rush is the first normalized Spring Festival travel rush after the epidemic prevention and control transition. With the help of the Spring Festival’ 8+1′ holiday model, everyone’s travel needs should be even stronger." Wen Zhen, Party member of Taiyuan Station, said, "It is expected that the passenger flow will gradually increase from February 2, and it will reach its peak from February 7 to 8. After the holiday, it is expected that the passenger flow in the province will increase one after another on February 12 and February 13, especially from February 16 to 17. "

Taiyuan South Railway Station will increase the discount of fares.

On the first day of Spring Festival travel rush, at the entrance of Taiyuan South Railway Station, the staff are guiding passengers to enter the station in an orderly manner.

▲ Passengers enter the station in an orderly manner.

This year, Taiyuan South Railway Station opened a 30-minute express passenger transfer channel, which improved the transfer. "The transfer sign is very eye-catching, the transfer route is clear, and I feel that the road home is very smooth." A passenger said.

In order to ensure passengers’ warm travel, Taiyuan South Railway Station has introduced new functions such as pre-filling the ticket purchase demand, reminding and subscribing the train tickets for sale, and booking tickets for students and migrant workers.

In addition, Taiyuan South Railway Station also optimizes the ticket change rules and expands the scope of ticket change. Passengers can change their tickets during the pre-sale period before and after driving, which gives passengers more choices for changing their tickets and makes it more convenient to adjust their itinerary. Expand the scope of fare concessions for spring sports buses, and increase the intensity of fare discounts, covering ordinary speed and motor trains, before and after the festival, and 21 trains will be given a 50% to 60% discount.

▲ Passengers line up to check in.

During Spring Festival travel rush in 2024, it is estimated that 9.2 million passengers will be sent, with a daily average of 230,000 passengers, up by 47.3% year-on-year, which will exceed that in 2019.

Taiyuan Airport has a special check-in counter to serve special passengers.

On January 26th, the first day of Spring Festival travel rush, Taiyuan Wusu International Airport sent volunteers to serve special passengers, late arrivals and first-time passengers at check-in, security check-in, waiting, arrival area. There are also special check-in counters at the 21st counter of T1 terminal and 28th counter of T2 terminal to serve "moral model" and "good people around" in Taiyuan.

▲ Passengers queue up for security check.

▲ Taiyuan Airport plane takes off

During the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush, Taiyuan Airport is expected to carry out 13,000 transport take-off and landing sorties, and increase the flight density of Taiyuan to Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Haikou, Boao, Harbin, Dalian and Guangzhou; Keep flights to Sydney, Bangkok, Phuket and Macau running smoothly; B787 and A330 dual-channel wide-body passenger planes were launched in time on the routes from Taiyuan to Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Chengdu.

In view of the sharp increase in the number of flights in Spring Festival travel rush, Taiyuan Airport has strengthened the apron supervision, and adopted the dynamic and static patrol mode of "driving patrol+walking patrol+video surveillance+fireworks patrol" to finely manage the patrol route, patrol time and patrol personnel, so as to ensure the safe operation of Taiyuan Airport during Spring Festival travel rush.

In addition, the check-in time for domestic outbound flights at Taiyuan Airport has been adjusted from 40 minutes before the scheduled departure of the original flight to 35 minutes before the scheduled departure of the flight. Fireworks and firecrackers, simulated gun toys and living animals are prohibited from being carried with you.

Measures to increase ticket sales according to passenger flow in Taiyuan bus station

"The passenger flow of our station this year is expected to be higher than last year, and we are ready. According to the passenger flow, we will increase the ticket window, extend the ticket sales time and increase the number of buses to ensure the safe and convenient travel of passengers." Zhang Wei, the stationmaster on duty at Taiyuan Bus Station, said, "The flow of people is usually around 1,300, and we expect it to increase to around 1,500 today. The usual frequency is generally around 80, and today we expect to increase it to around 100. "

▲ Passengers are waiting for ticket checking in the waiting room.

▲ Passengers queue up to check in.

Spring Festival travel rush in 2024 will last for 40 days from January 26th to March 5th. Since January 16th, Taiyuan Bus Station has adjusted the pre-sale period of bus tickets to 12 days to sell Spring Festival travel rush bus tickets, and online and offline channels are synchronized for pre-sale.

The majority of passengers can buy through the ticket window of Taiyuan Bus Station and the public service platform of Taiyuan Bus Station.

The station implements real-name registration system ticket checking, and the public platform supports network services such as frequency inquiry, ticket number inquiry, fare inquiry, online ticket purchase and station information. Passengers who purchase online ticket sales can pick up their tickets at the self-service ticket machine on the first floor of the ticket hall in advance.

Cai Zhi/Zhang Pinyuan He Guanghui Yue Taishi Ren Hui Fan Lingli (Internship)

Original title: "Spring Festival travel rush officially launched in 2024! 》

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