Han Ximin 1824295095@qq.com PLANE tickets from Shenzhen to cities in the southwestern and northwestern regions in China for the National Day holiday, from Friday to Oct. 7, are selling fast, data from China Southern Airlines showed. Daily booking for the airline’s flights departing from Shenzhen on Thursday and Friday reached 16,000 Sunday, surpassing the same period in 2019. Occupancy rate on these flights has reached 80 percent of the total, as per the statistics from the airline. Tickets to Lanzhou, Xining, Ankang, Nanchong, Taiyuan, Nanchang, Nanyang, Dali, Zhangjiajie, Haihou and Sanya on Thursday and Friday have been sold out. To meet the travelers’ demand, the operator has added the flights on route between Shenzhen and Guiyang on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. It also added flights on the routes with Sanya, Changde, Luoyang and Luzhou and deployed wide-body aircrafts on routes with Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Haikou, Sanya, Xi’an, Kunming, Chongqing, Tianjin and Hefei. In another development, for holidaymakers in Shenzhen, Yantian District will introduce a one-way mode in the Meisha area starting from the National Day holiday. This is to relieve the congestion for holidays of more than three days. During the National Day holiday, Yantian will continue to impose measures to prioritize buses. In addition to regular buses, the city’s transport authorities will arrange 120 buses on standby on two holiday bus routes linking Meisha area with Metro Line 8’s Yantian Port West Station and Yantian Road Station. It will also arrange 10 buses on standby to handle the surge of holidaymakers leaving after the beach parks are closed. The final train departing from Line 8’s Yantian Road Station will be extended to midnight during the holiday. The Meisha area has only 2,076 parking spots available, far below the demand especially during holidays. Drivers can find Yantian’s parking information via “i盐田” WeChat miniprogram or “美丽盐田” WeChat account. During the seven-day holiday period, the expressways in the country will be toll free to cars with no more than seven seats. |