Idul Fitri Train Tickets At Daop 6 Yogyakarta Already Sold 25 Percent

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YOGYAKARTA - Ticket sales for travel during the 2022 Lebaran Transportation period in Operation Area 6 Yogyakarta are starting to increase and as of Wednesday (6/4) 25 percent of the total tickets provided have been sold.

"The Lebaran transportation period is set from April 22 to May 13. So far, about 25 percent of the tickets or 70,343 tickets have been sold," said Public Relations Manager of PT KAI Operational Area (Daop) 6 Yogyakarta Supriyanto as quoted by Antara, Wednesday, April 6.

Tickets for the Lebaran transportation period are sold from D-45 departure so that now people can buy tickets through the KAI Access application or the official sales channel for train tickets for travel during Lebaran.

Based on the tickets that have been sold, continued Supriyanto, passengers choose to travel back and forth at the end of April or near Lebaran and for the return flow to occur on May 7-8.

"If the tickets for the favorite dates have been sold, then passengers can look for alternative dates to go home or return," he said.

Supriyanto also advised passengers to take advantage of the Connecting Train feature which can be accessed through the KAI Access application. Later, prospective passengers will be given alternative train trips by combining train schedules.

In order to anticipate the increase in the number of passengers, PT KAI is also preparing additional train trips which will be informed at a later date, including ticket sales.

Regarding the policy of domestic travel by rail transportation, passengers with departures on April 5-7 who do not bring negative results for the COVID-19 test can cancel with a 100 percent refund of the ticket fee.

The policy was implemented as a transition as well as socialization of new policies for domestic travel in accordance with the SE of the Ministry of Transportation Number 39 of 2022.

Meanwhile, for departures from April 8 onwards, passengers who have not received a booster vaccination and do not have a negative COVID-19 test result will be directed to cancel their ticket with a cancellation fee of 25 percent. Cancellations must be made at least 30 minutes before departure.