When purchasing high-speed rail tickets, what does it mean to be ranked first in the waiting list?

When purchasing high-speed rail tickets, being ranked higher on the waiting list means that the ticket will be purchased first in the event of a refund or other circumstances before the ticket is ranked higher than others during the waiting period.

The standby ticket purchase service means that passengers purchase tickets through the 12306 website or mobile client. If there are no tickets for the required train or seat, they can submit their ticket purchase requirements based on date, train number, and seat, and After prepaying the ticket, the ticketing system automatically arranges online waiting list. When tickets are available for sale for the corresponding train number or seat due to refunds, changes, etc., the system will automatically cash the tickets and notify passengers of the ticket purchase results.

Extended information:

For the submission, success or termination of the waitlisted ticket purchase order, the railway department will push notification messages to users through SMS, WeChat, mobile clients, etc., and there is an itinerary If there is a conflict, passengers will be reminded in the message.

If you choose the waitlist ticket purchase service, each user can submit 1 waitlist order, and 2 adjacent ride dates that are sent to the same station (can be different stations in the same city) can be added to one order. , each travel date can add 2 different "train seat categories" combination requirements, and each waiting order can reserve 3 tickets.

People's Daily Online - The railway department will launch a pilot waitlist ticket purchase service from December 27