CCTV News: January 18 is the fifth day of the Spring Festival travel rush. The reporter learned from the Railway 12306 Science and Technology Innovation Center that as of 8:00 on the 18th, a total of 175 million train tickets during the Spring Festival travel rush have been sold. In addition, tickets for the National Railway will be released on February 1st, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.

Spring Festival travel service desk: Popular routes continue to "new" and air tickets are sufficient and discounted. During this year's Spring Festival holiday, travel is still the choice of many friends, especially "ice and snow tours" and "island tours" are highly favored. In view of this travel feature, many airlines have "launched" popular flights during the Spring Festival travel rush, and many popular destinations currently have sufficient discounted air tickets.

During this year's Spring Festival travel rush, China Southern Airlines added ice and snow tour routes such as Guangzhou, Beijing Daxing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Wuhan to Changbai Mountain, Ningbo to Harbin, and newly opened Beijing Daxing to Xishuangbanna, Mudanjiang and other routes. A total of about 800 overtime flights were arranged on "ice and snow routes" such as Harbin, Changchun, Changbai Mountain, and Altay. In response to the difficulty of returning home in Hainan after the holiday last year, China Southern Airlines arranged about 600 additional flights in Haikou and Sanya routes.

During the Spring Festival travel rush, China Eastern Airlines added domestic flights to and from Kunming, Lanzhou, Urumqi, Shenzhen, Chengdu and other routes to and from Seoul, Tokyo and other routes, with a total of more than 1,200 flights added in Harbin.

Air China's popular routes for investment investment are mainly concentrated between the four major urban agglomerations of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao and Chengdu-Chongqing. In addition, it has also invested in popular routes such as "ice and snow tour" and "island tour" in Sanya, Haikou, Harbin, and Shenyang, among which the investment in wide-body aircraft of Hainan routes accounts for nearly 65%.

16 large domestic aircraft C919 are put into the Spring Festival travel rush

During this year's Spring Festival travel rush, 16 large domestic aircraft of C919 are unveiled in the Spring Festival travel rush, and China Southern Airlines' C919 aircraft are both the first time to serve the Spring Festival travel rush.

During this year's Spring Festival travel rush, China Eastern Airlines has 10 C919 aircraft put into service in the Spring Festival travel rush, and is flying to routes such as Shanghai to Beijing. Air China has three registered C919s put into operation, operating five routes from Beijing to Shanghai, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu and Chongqing, with a total of 400 flights planned to be carried out. All three large domestically produced C919 aircraft of China Southern Airlines have been put into the Spring Festival travel rush, carrying out four routes from Guangzhou to Hangzhou, Shanghai Hongqiao, Haikou and Chengdu Tianfu.

In view of the first time in the Spring Festival travel service, China Southern Airlines C919 fleet selected experienced and skilled flight instructors to serve as the captain. Each flight is equipped with three professional crew members, and the first aircraft health monitoring system of China Civil Aviation, which is independently developed, is used to monitor the aircraft's technical status and operating status in real time, and improve the operational safety and reliability of domestic large aircraft.