Tickets for the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day are expensive this year, spawning a large number of people who “run for the wrong peak,” and the popularity of air travel spread to the working days before the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to travel data where to go, starting September 22, the number of visitors to “run for the wrong peak” during the Double Festival began to increase day by day. The number of air travelers this Wednesday increased 20% year over year, and on September 24, it increased nearly 50% year over year. Low prices are the first driving force behind the rush. According to the data from Where to Go, judging from the average daily ticket prices, the weekdays before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival are the lowest ticket prices for the entire holiday period: rush departure on September 22. The average price was more than 30% lower than the first day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and nearly 50% lower than the first day of the National Day. For example, the price of a direct flight ticket between Beijing and Guiyang was as low as 500 yuan on September 22, and the departure price on October 1 reached 1,275 yuan. According to travel data from Where to Go, the second “Wrong Peak” window for the Double Festival was on September 28, and the average ticket price was about 40% lower than on the first day of the National Day. According to the Where to Go data, the number of people traveling on vacation from September 28 to 30 increased by 52% year-on-year, and 1 out of every 7 travelers chose to take a day off.

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