On 8 january, the civil aviation authority of china held a regular press conference in which the relevant officials described that the 2024 spring shipment, which had started on 26 january and ended on 5 march, had a total of 40 days and that the number of civil aviation transport passengers was expected to reach 80 million during the spring, with the prospect of a record high。
According to the travel data, the search heat for tickets during the spring festival (the month of ra's 29th and the beginning of the month, 11 days in total) has exceeded 40 per cent during the same period in 2019, and is expected to peak at 29th and new year's eve. In addition, more than 60 per cent of the current spring transport orders are family trips, an increase of 36 per cent over the same period in 2019, and a rise of 44 per cent for spring holidays。
Family visiting+tourism will become a spring-festing travel model. How do you buy more favourable air tickets on the flight? What are the differences in the composition of child and adult airfares? Journalists interviewed relevant staff of the tourism platform。
Must the child fare be cheaper than the adult fare
Mrs. Lee, who lives in beijing, wanted to take her children to hangzhou on a winter holiday and found that “the purchase of a child's ticket is not cost-effective and that a three-year-old's ticket is more expensive than an adult”。
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Like ms. Lee, many of the parents who bought tickets for their children for the first time had the same distress: how did they get affordable tickets for their children when they were small
In accordance with the relevant provisions of the rules for the domestic transport of passengers, baggages and passengers of civil aviation of china, as amended in 2004, babies aged 0-2 are required to buy baby tickets by air at 10 per cent of the adult fare for the same flight, without charge of fuel surcharges and airport construction fees; children aged 2-12 are required to charge 50 per cent of the adult fare for the same flight, and to charge half the fuel surcharge and airport construction fees free of charge。
In this way, it would seem that children's tickets must be cheaper than adult tickets. But that is not always the case. Journalists interviewed the person responsible for the airline tickets on the tourist platform, who stated that, according to domestic regulations, children's tickets were indeed 50 per cent of the total adult fare, although the total fare was the original fare without any discount。
Since most of the daily airline tickets purchased by adult passengers are post-discount tickets, such as 20 per cent in the light season and 30 per cent in the low season, these discounts are indeed less than 50 per cent of the original price for children's tickets, while the prices for children's airline tickets are generally less, so the purchase of children's tickets is more expensive than adult tickets。
Children can also buy adult airline tickets
So, how do you buy cheaper tickets for kids
The person responsible for air tickets on tourist platforms described the fact that, in cases where children's tickets were more expensive, adult tickets were mostly available directly. Most airlines have now allowed children to book coupons for adults. In the above cases, after a consultation, ms. Lee also eventually purchased an adult discount ticket for the child。
With more favourable adult fares, would construction and fuel costs still be paid for according to the child's airfare? The answer was no. If adult tickets are purchased for children, the cost of building and fuel, as well as the cost of re-signing, will be as high as that for adults. The parent-child family may, on the basis of the platform's advice, choose a more favourable programme for travel。
In addition, the discount rates for child tickets vary among international flights, usually 75 per cent of the adult fare. The choice of parent-child families for cross-border travel in spring requires attention to the requirements of different divisions. In the purchase of airline tickets, users may also need to provide appropriate supporting documents to prove the age of the child, including birth certificates, passports or other valid identity documents。
