This Friday (January 26th), the 2024 Spring Festival travel will officially start. According to the current ticket pre-sale rules, train tickets for New Year's Eve (February 9th) can be purchased on the same day. From the pattern of previous years, the Spring Festival train tickets will enter the peak selling period on Wednesday and Thursday this week. The 40 day Spring Festival travel event will kick off on January 26th (the 16th of the twelfth lunar month). According to this year's Spring Festival holiday schedule, there will be an 8-day compensatory leave from February 10th to 17th. I will start work on February 4th (Sunday) and February 18th (Sunday). According to the travel patterns of passengers in previous years, the peak period of Spring Festival travel is on February 28th (February 7th), February 29th (February 8th), and New Year's Eve (February 9th). Tickets for these three days are available for sale on January 24th, January 25th, and January 26th, respectively. When purchasing pre holiday train tickets, don't forget to purchase return train tickets in advance. According to the current ticket pre-sale rules, return train tickets for the holiday on February 17th (the eighth day of the first lunar month) will be available for sale from February 3rd. This year, after upgrading the 12306 service, a ticket start time reminder can be set on the APP. After users select "Add Reminder", the system will automatically notify users not to miss the best time to purchase tickets before the selected train is released. In addition, passengers can also fully utilize the upgraded 12306 standby function. At present, the number of waiting orders that can be submitted by each passenger has increased from 2 to 6, and each order can add up to 9 passengers. After optimization and upgrading, passengers can choose any 3 travel dates during the pre-sale period, with a cumulative maximum of 60 combinations of "dates+train numbers", and each train number can choose multiple seats. At the same time, passengers can choose to accept the purchase of new passenger train tickets that meet their travel needs when submitting standby orders. If the railway department temporarily adds new passenger trains, when the tickets start selling, Railway 12306 will automatically prioritize the allocation to passengers who have already submitted standby orders. Passengers do not need to manually check the information of additional trains before purchasing tickets. At present, the starting times for train tickets at the 7 major railway stations in Beijing are different, with Beijing West Station and Beijing Fengtai Station starting at 8 o'clock; Starting from 10am at Beijing Station and Beijing Chaoyang Station; Beijing North Station starts selling at 12:00 noon; Starting from 12:30 noon at Beijing South Station; The Qinghe Station starts selling at 16:00. The railway department reminds that the Railway 12306 website (including the client) is the only official train ticket online ticketing platform of China Railway, and has never authorized any third-party platform to sell train tickets. Passengers who purchase tickets through third-party platforms may not only encounter traps such as surcharges and bundled sales services, but also face the risk of personal privacy information leakage. Passengers must purchase tickets through official railway channels, identify the official website of 12306 and the official app of "Railway 12306", and confirm that the payee of the ticket payment is "China Railway Network Co., Ltd." to avoid being unable to receive refunds when refunding or changing tickets in the future. (Reporter Sun Hongyang)