According to statistics of Saigon Railway Transport Joint Stock Company, out of a total of 75,144 tickets paid, 26,042 tickets were paid via bank transfer.
Saigon Railway Transport Joint Stock Company said that as of the morning of November 3, more than 75,000 tickets for the 2023 Lunar New Year Lunar New Year had been successfully paid and more than 1,600 tickets had been booked but not yet paid.
Currently, there are very few train tickets to the central provinces in the days approaching Tet.
In recent years, the railway industry has deployed ticket sales through many different channels, creating favorable conditions for people to buy tickets.
Along with buying tickets directly at stations, ticket agents of the railway industry, forms of buying tickets online through websites and apps (apps) to sell train tickets are also chosen by people.
According to statistics, out of a total of 75,144 tickets paid, 26,042 tickets were paid via bank transfer.
For paid tickets, there are nearly 40,000 train tickets before Tet and more than 35,000 train tickets after Tet. This year, the railway industry provides 356 trains with 176,046 seats to serve passengers during Tet (train marks with departure/destination points at Saigon station), an increase of 130 trips (67,000 seats) compared to Tet 2022.
With about 77,000 tickets sold or pre-booked, there are still about 100,000 tickets left for passengers to choose to travel during the Lunar New Year 2023. However, buying tickets on the system is not simple, especially train tickets from the station. Saigon to the provinces and cities in the Central region in the peak days near Tet.
Currently, tickets to Nha Trang (Khanh Hoa), Tuy Hoa (Phu Yen), Quy Nhon (Binh Dinh), Quang Ngai ... in the days leading up to the Lunar New Year, there are very few tickets. For example, for the Saigon-Tuy Hoa leg and the Saigon-Quy Nhon leg on January 17, 2023 (December 26), there are almost no tickets left on the ticketing website www.dsvn.vn for passengers to choose from.
In the days of 16-19 January 2023 (December 25-28 of the year of the Tiger), on the ticketing system, the wagons of the trains are mostly displayed in red (cars are sold out). Some carriages are green (cars still have tickets) but tickets are also scarce when entering. Only a few sleeper compartments of SE12 and SE18 trains have tickets, but only single tickets (only one ticket). For further routes such as Nghe An, Thanh Hoa, Hanoi ..., the trains still have tickets, but the number of tickets is not too much.
Mr. Thai Van Truyen, General Director of Saigon Railway Transport Joint Stock Company, said that out of 100,000 unsold tickets, train tickets are concentrated on the days before December 23 of the year of the Tiger and after January 10 of the year. You Rabbit. Meanwhile, the travel demand in the days leading up to Tet is often very high, so there are not many tickets left.
“People in the central provinces often focus on buying train tickets from December 25-28, so the demand for tickets these days is very high. The company is reviewing to calculate to run more trains from Ho Chi Minh City to the provinces and cities in the Central region, including increasing trains in the Saigon-Quang Ngai section... to serve," said Mr. Thai. Van Truyen shared.
Compared to the 2022 Lunar New Year, train ticket prices this year increased by 1-6%, an average increase of about 4.5%. The number of tourists traveling during the Lunar New Year this year is also forecast to reach about 70% compared to before the time of the COVID-19 epidemic.
On the occasion of Lunar New Year 2023, the railway industry runs 10 pairs of Thong Nhat passenger trains (Saigon-Hanoi and vice versa) including SE1/SE2, SE3/SE4, SE5/SE6, SE7/SE8, SE9/SE10, SE11/SE12 , SE19/SE20, SE23/SE24, TN3/TN4, TN5/TN6.
Along with that, Saigon Railway Transport Joint Stock Company organized to run 9 pairs of regional trains from Saigon station to localities and vice versa.