Someone was helplessly "assassinated", and the outbound trip cost more than 600 yuan, which doubled for the return trip! Some people are happy to pick up leaks
Before the May Day holiday this year, air ticket prices plunged again. Complaints and complaints about air ticket diving are endless on social platforms, and this is also when many netizens who have not yet booked a trip made mistakes. Ms. Wu, who arranged a May Day trip organized by Buddhists, grabbed a cheap air ticket, costing more than 600 yuan per person to fly from Shanghai to Chongqing. However, Ms. Wu's family, who made a temporary trip arrangement because of missing air tickets, did not buy return tickets/air tickets at that time and went straight away "naked". After many days of waiting for a high-speed train standby or a cheap air ticket, to no avail, until 12 hours before departure, Ms. Wu bought a high-priced return ticket. A single flight from Chongqing to Shanghai cost more than 1,300 yuan, double the price. A low-priced outbound ticket but a high-priced return ticket. During this May Day holiday, have you found a bargain-priced ticket? Got stabbed in the back on a return ticket?
The balance of the May Day holiday is about to run out, and the peak return journey is approaching. Some people are already stuck on the road, and some are even waiting for tickets. Compared with the joy of traveling, the fatigue of the return trip is really troublesome. Miss Wu, who was traveling from Shanghai to Chongqing on May Day, encountered an assassin on her return ticket.
On May Day this year, Ms. Wu, a Buddhist, plans to return her family to her hometown in Chongqing from Shanghai. When I looked at air tickets in mid-April, it was around more than 1,000 yuan per person, one way. Frightened away by the high cost of air tickets, Ms. Wu decided to wait for high-speed rail tickets. If I can wait for the appointment, I will arrange to go home. If I can't wait, I will stay in Shanghai.
In late April, many netizens on the Internet began to report that air tickets were plummeting. Ms. Wu opened the booking software again and found that there was an additional flight from Shanghai to Chongqing, and the air ticket only cost more than 600 yuan, which was a reasonable price. Miss Wu made a prompt decision, discussed with her family, and booked three air tickets to fly back to Chongqing.
"The price is almost half off, and the time is very reasonable. I really missed it." Ms. Wu felt very lucky to have grabbed cheap tickets, but at the same time, they had not yet bought their return air tickets and bus tickets. "We are waiting for high-speed rail tickets on the 5th and 6th. We are also waiting for return tickets. We hope to be as lucky as the outbound flight and grab a ticket at a suitable price when additional flights are opened.
However, Ms. Wu waited and waited for several days for return tickets. Until 8 o'clock the night before departure, she did not wait for the air ticket price to drop, and train tickets were no longer available. Ms. Wu decided to buy high-priced air tickets with her children, one for each adult. For children, the total amount is more than 2,000 yuan. Calculated based on the fact that children’s air tickets are 50% of the full-price ticket, the full-price ticket is about 1,340. It cost more than 600 yuan to fly from Shanghai to Chongqing alone, but the return trip cost more than 1,300 yuan. Ms. Wu, who encountered a "return assassin", did not make the decision to buy a high-priced return ticket until 12 hours before departure.
However, although it is much more expensive than buying a train ticket, Ms. Wu feels that it is worth it to shorten the child's travel time from 12 hours to 2 hours.
Miss Wu and her children's return ticket order
When traveling on May Day, buying tickets is a hard job. Some people are happy and some are worried when ticket prices plummet. Before the start of May Day this year, the air ticket from Shanghai to Urumqi was booked for more than 2,000 yuan on April 17, but dropped to about 950 yuan on April 27; the flight from Shanghai to Lanzhou on April 30 dropped from more than 3,000 to more than 1,000 yuan; round trip from Shanghai to Harbin The price of air tickets has dropped from more than 6,000 to more than 1,500 yuan... There may not be many people like Ms. Wu who miss a suitable air ticket and travel naked without buying a return ticket, but there are not many people who prepare multiple plans at the same time.
Judging from the current picture, several destinations where diving tickets have appeared on the outbound trip have not seen diving tickets on the return trip. During the return peak period on the 4th and 5th, air ticket prices are still high.
Take the air ticket from Chongqing back to Shanghai as an example. According to the data from the ticketing platform, the price of flights with reasonable time on the 5th is more than 1,000 yuan. Even on the 6th, the price is basically around 800 or 900 yuan, and it only recovers on the 7th. The more conventional price is more than 600 yuan.
In fact, air tickets plummeted before the May Day and National Day holiday last year and this year’s May Day holiday, mainly because of increased supply and airlines increasing flights during the holidays. At the same time, other travel modes such as additional high-speed rail flights and an increase in the number of self-driving trips to divert passenger flow are also among the reasons for the price reduction.
According to Flight Manager data, the number of scheduled flights on May 1 was 15,435, an increase of 2% compared to the same period last year; on April 30, it was 15,543 flights, an increase of 3% compared to the same period last year; and the data on the 4th was 15,214 flights , an increase of 1% compared to the same period last year. It can be seen that the difference in airline capacity deployment among three days.
In addition to train tickets that cannot be obtained and air tickets that cannot be reduced in price, even if they travel by car, the return journey for some people is still not smooth.
According to predictions from the Ministry of Transport, the average daily cross-regional movement of people across society during the May Day holiday will reach more than 270 million, exceeding the levels of the same period in 2023 and 2019, and the proportion of self-driving travel will reach more than 80%.
Those who started their return journey had already experienced traffic jams. The Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge had already received return traffic as early as May 3. The number of vehicles heading towards the city from Chongming gradually increased, and there was a slow-moving section at one point. Eight provinces and regions including Zhejiang, Anhui, and Guangdong will also experience heavy to heavy rains during the peak period of the return journey, as well as strong convective weather such as thunderstorms, strong winds, or hail in local areas. Shanghai will also receive rainfall on the 4th and 5th, which will bring certain difficulties to the return journey. Impact.
So, during this May Day holiday, have you found any cheap air tickets? If you missed something on your way out, will your return journey go smoothly?
