Ticket prices dive topic, repeatedly rushed to the hot search! The news of the continuous decline in domestic air ticket prices has once again sparked a heated debate, with many netizens complaining on social media.

"May Day" is approaching the collapse of ticket prices.

It fell 38% from the first week of April.

According to regular data, airports are expected to have a total of 151612 takeoffs and landings during the May Day holiday in 2024, with an average of 30322 takeoffs and landings per day, an increase of 8 percent over the May Day holiday in 2023.Megasicbo.99%, an increase of 36.2% over 2019. The above data show that this year's May Day holiday CAAC will break last year's record and usher in the busiest May Day holiday in history.

Data show that near the "May Day" holiday, domestic air ticket prices continue to decline. According to ticket sales platform Fei Changzun App4 monthly ticket sales data, as of 17:00 on April 26th, the average domestic economy class ticket price for the past seven days "May Day" was 852 yuan (excluding tax), down 1.13% from the same period last year and 22% from the previous year.

If the time span is extended to one month, this trend is even more obvious. The average domestic economy class price of May Day purchased in the first week of April is more than 1,000 yuan (excluding tax). In the fourth week of April, the average air ticket price has dropped to about 700 yuan, a 38% drop compared with the first week of April.

However, the price "plummeted", and netizens shouted that they had lost money.

The truth behind it is exposed!

Many netizens are puzzled to say that the number of travelers has skyrocketed, but the price has "plunged". Why on earth?

In fact, ticket prices change dynamically according to the relationship between supply and demand. During the peak and peak seasons, the Aviation Department, according to its own expectations of the market, will pre-arrange more flight capacity than in the off-season to meet civil aviation demand. When the holiday is approaching and the capacity still exceeds the demand, the Aviation Department will adjust the prices of the corresponding flights in order to dilute the capacity costs.

Not only that, but also by the mainstream aviation department currently often use two sets of systems to complete the price decision of air tickets. First of all, the Aviation Division uses the freight management system to determine the prices of different cabins in different periods based on the judgment of cost and passenger flow. After that, based on the revenue management system, we decide how many seats are released for different discount cabins, and forecast the comprehensive income of the flight.

That is, people who travel are always divided into time-sensitive type and price-sensitive type. Time-sensitive ones lock in travel in advance through high prices, and price-sensitive ones get low prices through long-term squatting and the risk that they may not be able to travel. The airline pricing model is based on this, and the price adjustment is only a ruthless optimal model.

Is the ticket expensive?

Here comes the repurchase strategy!

At the beginning of this year, Air China announced that it would issue two domestic unjustified refund coupons to each registered user of Air China's mobile terminal, valid for one year. At the same time, domestic tickets purchased through all sales channels at the beginning of 999 and actually carried by Air China can be refunded free of charge within 2 hours of purchase.

In addition, the domesticMegasicboSome of his aviation departments are also gradually in line with international practice. At the beginning of the year, China Southern Airlines (600029) and China Eastern Airlines (600115) (China Eastern Airlines) announced one after another that if the ticket price is reduced after the ticket purchase, it is allowed to repurchase the ticket within 24 hours after the ticket purchase. the original ticket that meets certain conditions will be refunded free of charge. The policy is similar to the rule that US airlines must retain tickets without paying the original price for 24 hours and allow tickets to be cancelled unconditionally and free of charge within 24 hours of purchase without any penalty.

In order not to be cut leeks, netizens also summed up the experience of "fighting wits and bravery": "complaint strategy"; "Dead skin asks the online travel platform to return, and the platform may subsidize you without threshold coupons out of 'humanitarianism' and user care.

Usually, there are also contact ticketing platform, contact 12326 refund price difference, intervention hope to deal with the method.

Secondly, call the Department of Aviation, all kinds of saying that they can not accept, to deal with the way! Feedback requires urgent call back to the result! You will generally be asked to repurchase the original flight and then call for a full refund before you apply! Finally, go to the platform to verify the handling of the Aviation Department! Wait for a refund!

Generally speaking, it is necessary to buy the same flight (the flight you have already purchased) with reduced prices under the operation of the airline customer service, and then let the airline cancel the seats of the high-priced tickets originally bought, and wait for the airline to confirm that the operation is correct. Then go to the third-party ticketing channel to apply for refund of high-priced tickets without responsibility to refund the ticket will not deduct the service charge.

As long as you tell the ticket purchasing channel that you have docked with the airline, you can refund the ticket, and they will contact the airline themselves and wait for the money to arrive after it is confirmed.

If you haven't identified the tourists who are planning to travel on May Day, you can go where you have tickets. "picking up missed trips" may be a surprise for this year's May Day holiday.