At the same time, the number of passengers booking tickets in unreserved classes began to increase from the 2021–22 period. “In 2021–22, 2,194 million unreserved tickets were booked in suburban areas, followed by 3,834 million in 2022–23, 4,026 million in 2023–24 and 4,201 million in 2024–25. But, the booking of unreserved tickets in non-suburban areas declined from 2019–20,” said a source.The data clearly shows that unreserved ticket bookings in non-suburban areas were high from 2014–15 until 2019–20. Following the Covid-19 outbreak, only 76 million unreserved tickets were booked in non-suburban regions in 2020–21, which gradually increased to 582 million in 2021–22, 1,826 million in 2022–23, 2,150 million in 2023–24 and 2,360 million in 2024–25.Notably, the booking of unreserved tickets in suburban areas was encouraging between 2014–15 and 2019–20. In 2020–21, only 925 million unreserved tickets were booked in suburban areas. Following the pandemic, bookings gradually increased from 2021-2022, reaching 2,194 million unreserved tickets in suburban areas.
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