Chapter 911: The First Day of the Spring Festival
One of Skynet Airlines' earliest flights was at 6:30 a.m.
The latest flight was at 9 p.m.
That night, Ye Qing only slept for six hours, and then got up from the bed and rushed to the Skynet Aviation headquarters.
Originally, last night, Ye Qing should have been lying on the spacious big bed, sleeping with the two of them.
A few days ago, Ye Qing contacted Doudou as soon as she returned to China, and she said that she could finish the filming mission in Shezhou City yesterday, and then fly back to Zhongyun by plane.
But last night, Doudou called to tell Ye Qing that the filming mission was over, but Shezhou Airport was suspended due to heavy snowfall, and even the highway was blocked.
If you put aside the ordinary couple, I am afraid that you will have to look at each other, and you can only use the phone to confide in your heart.
But Ye Qing is not an ordinary person, and directly told Doudou that a special plane will be sent to pick her up today.
When I came to the headquarters of Skynet Airlines, the time was five o'clock in the morning.
At this time, Ye Qing happened to see the banshee flying machine in the sky, cutting through the dark night sky and flying towards the land of China.
Today is the first day of Skynet Airlines' official operation.
Today, the Spring Festival has begun.
……
Almost all provincial-level satellite TV stations have come to the major railway stations and airports in the province to do news interviews and reports. Huaxia's official television station even sent a number of film crews to the railway stations of several megacities in China in advance to shoot news materials on the first day of the Spring Festival.
Early in the morning, the three railway stations in the capital Yanjing announced their passenger data for today on the official website.
Five hundred and one thousand.
On the first day of the Spring Festival, Yanjing Railway Station will transport 510,000 passengers.
In order to ensure the smooth departure of passengers, the three railway stations have also increased the guarantee of hardware equipment. In the case of self-service ticket vending machines alone, 120 additional units have been added. Reach three railway stations, a total of 970 units.
All service windows are fully open, and multiple service points and service groups are set up.
Major institutions dispatched volunteer working groups to maintain order at the railway station all day.
What is the concept of sending 510,000 people in one day?
When the reporters arrived at the train station early in the morning and used drones to shoot the scene outside the station. The whole square outside the station was full of people.
The heads of the people were black, and almost everyone was carrying their luggage in large and small bags. Walking into the station, the crowds are even more dense, and it is difficult to find a place to stay, and the short people can't see any signs at all. The sound of the scene is as if there are tens of thousands of speakers playing different songs together.
Not to mention that the passengers have big heads, even the reporters have big heads, and it is not easy to catch people interviewing, and people are also sweating profusely and yelling: "What are you talking about, I can't hear clearly." ”
If you can't interview, you can pat people first, so that the audience can feel the power of the Spring Festival.
But patting and patting, the reporters found a problem.
The main culprit of the crowd congestion is not to blame the large number of people, but the dozens of security detectors placed at the gate.
With the increase in security awareness in recent years, and attacks that have taken place around the world, against public places. Almost all stations, subway entrances, and railway stations in China have strengthened the intensity of security checks, and the capital Yanjing is the top priority.
The Spring Festival is the peak of public transportation in China, and the security check cannot tolerate the slightest sloppiness.
On weekdays, there is a long queue of old elders in front of the security checker, and now the line in front of these security checkers is even more invisible.
When passengers walk in front of the security checkpoint, they must first swipe their ID cards.
Then I laboriously put the large bags and small bags of luggage into the X-ray machine for fluoroscopic detection. Then walk yourself to the security gate and go through the security check.
"Did you bring water?"
"Brought it. ”
"Then take it out and take a sip. ”
"Drop~"
The position of the pocket alarmed, and the security inspector touched it and said it was a mobile phone.
"Drop~"
The trouser pocket rang again, and the security inspector touched it and said it was a lighter.
"Drop~"
The male passenger lifted off his clothes, which were buckles for his trousers. The female passenger rolled up her sleeves to reveal the metal bracelet on her wrist. If there is something that cannot be distinguished, the security inspector will also ask the passenger to take it out and take it to the security counter next to it for further inspection.
Passengers complained that they were sweating and angry at the security officers. The security inspector was expressionless, numb and mechanically used a hand-held metal detector to signal to the next person.
Today, 510,000 passengers will undergo 510,000 security checks. X-ray machines, which have to scan up to 1.5 million pieces of luggage.
Dozens of security detectors have blocked the gate of the railway station without the slightest gap, and it is impossible to accommodate more.
When the reporters photographed this, it suddenly occurred to them that last year's Spring Festival passengers alone reached the scale of 3 billion. After excluding those few private transportations, how much effort and time will it take for these more than 2 billion passengers to complete the security checks?
But there is no solution to this problem, and it is impossible for passengers not to go through the security check.
……
Wei Yuan, who is in Jinling, the capital of Jiangnan Province, is also going home for the New Year.
He works as a copywriter for a well-known advertising agency, and now that the year is approaching, the advertising agency has done most of the advertising planning. As a copywriter, he naturally became idle.
Of course, it is not expected to be idle and leisurely, and it is hopeless to go home for the New Year half a month in advance.
Fortunately, Wei Yuan's boss received a big order from a foreign government for tourism and cultural advertising, and that place happened to be Wei Yuan's hometown. His boss took him on a business trip, and Wei Yuan happened to be able to live at home, which could be regarded as going home early for the New Year.
Wei Yuan's hometown is in Xi County, Hui Province, and his boss originally suggested that the three of them go by car. As a result, Wei Yuan told his boss very seriously that if he drove back, he wouldn't be able to arrive in three or five days.
"Why?" the boss was confused.
"Because...... Xixian is my hometown, and I am very aware of the road traffic there. Provincial roads there...... It is worse than a town below Jinling, and the villages below the town have access to roads. He also loves to build roads, and often walks to the end of a road and finds that the front is blocked. Now it's snowing heavily again, and we're in a mountain nest in Xi County......"
When the boss heard that it was in the nest in the mountains, it was snowing heavily. I immediately checked the train tickets on the Internet, but I checked the tickets of all nearby cities, and I couldn't find an unsold ticket.
Their business trip was sudden, and they couldn't buy tickets in advance.
If you can't buy a long-distance ticket, then use the local method, moving it from city to city.
Taking advantage of the fact that there was less traffic in the middle of the night, they drove overnight to Tongling City, 200 kilometers away in Hui Province.
The three of them turned on the air conditioner and opened the sunroof in the car, and waited for six o'clock the next morning to come to the train station to prepare for the train and arrive in the next city.
The plan is very good, Tongling is a prefecture-level city in Hui Province, fortunately, there is a railway station, and the crowd at the train station is not too exaggerated.
Then their group of glamorous trio with beautiful suitcases and suits and leather shoes were stopped as soon as they walked to the front of the train station.
One of the reporters who stopped them was followed by a camera on his shoulder and wearing a working vest of the Hui Provincial Television Station.
"Three gentlemen, I am a reporter from Hui Provincial TV Station, can I interview you?" This reporter looked good, and wore a down jacket that was not too bloated, so during the interview, a few travelers quickly stopped to watch the excitement.
"Ahem~ Of course you can. ”
"We are employees of Jinling Fanglu Advertising Company, and we are preparing to go to the train station to catch the train. Wei Yuan's boss hurriedly seized the opportunity to advertise his company, and then asked the reporter with a smile what he wanted to interview.
"May I ask these three passengers, why don't you take the train from Jinling City to Tongling?"
"I can't buy a ticket. Wei Yuan's boss reluctantly spread his hands, patted Wei Yuan beside him again, and introduced that this person was from Xi County, Hui Province, and the purpose of their business trip this time was also Xi County.
"Hmm~ It seems that a few of them are on a temporary business trip. The female reporter smiled and said: "Ladies and gentlemen in front of the TV, it is the first day of the Spring Festival in China. It was only half past six o'clock, and we experienced the power of the Spring Festival. ”
"May I ask this fellow traveler, do you have the confidence to return to your hometown of Xi County today?"
"To be honest, I don't have any faith at all. Wei Yuan was not stage frightened, and said with a smile: "I heard that it will snow again in my hometown, so we can only find a way to reach Shezhou City, which is more than 100 kilometers away, and then rent a car to go back." ”
"Shezhou City?"
"You know, a company called Skynet Airlines has built an airport in Tongling, and today there are flights from Tongling to Shezhou City. ”
"Fake...... "Of course, Wei Yuan knows better than anyone else, in fact, yesterday he bought a flight from Tongling to Shezhou City in the small program of Skynet Airlines.
In order to join in the fun, he listened to those colleagues who had refunded the money and said that the refund was fully refunded and he could get a ticket coupon.
Thinking of this, Wei Yuan immediately opened WeChat and showed the e-ticket he bought like a reporter.
The air ticket schedule is half past eight this morning, the flight takes 26 minutes, and the ticket price is 100 yuan.
Coincidental!
In fact, the main purpose of the reporter who came to interview today was to go to the airport. Although she also deeply suspects that Skynet Airlines will not have a plane, but the news is such a thing, she has to hold the heart of preferring to kill mistakes and not let go.
Now it's a matter of shooting the train station.
If that airport is empty, the interview here at the train station can be substituted.
Now I met a passenger who bought a ticket to the airport, of course, the female reporter was interested, and then moved him to say that since he bought a ticket, it would be better to go to the airport to have a look.
She wanted to follow the shoot all the way and shoot the news material from the perspective of a tourist.
As a result, Wei Yuan and his boss were not fooled at all, and before they could say a word, they ran into the train station.
Half an hour later, the female reporter finished filming the footage and was about to go to the airport, only to see the three squeezed out of the train station again.
They were so depressed that they knew they hadn't bought a ticket.
"Three, do you want to go to the airport? We have a press car to take you there for free?" the female reporter smiled and leaned back.