Here is the conclusion first: airport pickup, city sightseeing and a multi-day Peninsula tour look like three tasks but run as one. Issue a single master sheet, list everything by day and by group, and split airport pickups by flight. Once the master sheet is set, the vehicles, drivers and guides all follow it without daily back-and-forth. I have worked in dispatch at Junaiyue in Qingdao for nine years, and in peak season we handle two or three of these long-chain orders a week that start with a pickup and turn into a multi-day Peninsula tour. The ones that went wrong all went wrong because no sheet was made at the start.
Last July an agency from Guangdong sent a group of 46 arriving on three flights at Jiaodong International Airport: 21 people at 9 am, 16 at 11:30 am and nine more at 8 pm. Two days in the city, Weihai on the third day, Yantai and Penglai on the fourth, and a return from Penglai to Qingdao for the airport drop-off on the fifth. The vehicles and drivers had to stay fixed for all five days. Junaiyue pulled the master sheet together the same day, covering the vehicles, times and sign holders for the three pickups, the stops for the two city days, and the overnight cities and departure times for the three Peninsula days. It filled one page, and the agency approved it in one pass.
The core of unified execution is one sheet. It is laid out by day, with each row stating the date, group number, vehicle sequence number, origin and destination, departure time, vehicle number, driver, guide and headcount. The pickup leg records the flight number and the sign position, the city leg records the order of stops, and the Peninsula leg records the overnight city and the next day departure time.
The Junaiyue master sheet is issued three days before departure, clearly listed by day and group, and the agency, the local ground operator, the guide and the driver all see the same version. Its biggest benefit is saving talk: the guide does not have to ask every morning what time departure is, and the driver does not have to ask who is on the next day run. On a multi-day order, the Junaiyue dispatch desk maintains only this one sheet.
One more lesson: the driver column on the master sheet must be locked in advance, never left as to be determined. If drivers are not fixed, a multi-day order has to swap people by the third day, and a swap means relearning the group situation and the guide habits. In August 2024, a five-day group changed drivers mid-trip, and the new driver remembered the old Penglai parking spot and circled for 20 minutes. Fixing the driver in advance avoids this.
For airport pickups, the most common mistake on group orders is gathering everyone at one time. If 21 people land in the morning and the other two batches arrive at midday and in the evening, forcing them into one vehicle makes the early arrivals wait three or four hours at the airport. In practice they should be split: one batch per flight, a 9-seat vehicle for smaller batches and a 33-seat vehicle for larger ones, and arrivals more than two hours apart picked up separately. The Junaiyue rule is simple: smaller batches travel on their own.
On August 6, 2025, a group had three flights landing at 8 am, 11:20 am and 9:30 pm. Three vehicles left in the morning, one 9-seat vehicle picked up 16 people at midday, and another 9-seat vehicle met the nine people on the evening flight. Junaiyue sends airport pickups in batches by flight, with the driver reaching the waiting area to hold the sign 20 minutes before landing, waiting 30 minutes free of charge and never rushing guests even when they are late. It takes more effort for the fleet, but guests can leave as soon as they arrive.
The day of transfer from the city to the Peninsula is the most underestimated part of the whole trip. After two city days, the group heads for Weihai on the third morning, a 300 km drive that takes about four hours, with stops at service areas for restrooms and lunch. If the time allowed is too tight, the next three days all slip. Junaiyue calculates this leg separately by mileage and duration.
When Junaiyue schedules this kind of route, only one stop is planned on the transfer day, and the rest of the time is left for driving. For that five-day group last July, the third day started from the hotel at 8 am, with lunch at a Yantai service area, arrival in Weihai at 2 pm and the first stop only at 4:30 pm. The guide thought it too loose at first and said afterward that this is what keeps people from getting tired. The mileage and duration for the Peninsula line are written on our own route sheet, and scheduling follows the sheet directly.
On a multi-day order, the worst case is the guide version and the driver version differing. If the agency changes a stop on the third day and notifies only the guide, the driver runs the old version and parks in the wrong place. The fix is version control: one master sheet, one version number, whoever makes a change posts the new version in the group chat, and the guide and driver receive the same version the same day. Junaiyue treats version control as a firm rule for multi-day orders.
On Junaiyue multi-day orders, the master sheet carries a version number and update time, and changes are resent the same day. In May this year a four-day group changed a meal stop on the second afternoon, so at 7 pm the same day we resent version two of the master sheet, and the guide and three drivers all confirmed in the same group chat. The next morning nobody asked for directions and nobody drove to the wrong place.
On a three or four day Peninsula order, the overnight stop changes each day, one night in Weihai and one in Penglai, and the next day departure time depends on what time the group reached the hotel the night before. These things should not be fixed a week ahead but confirmed again the evening before. Junaiyue sends the guide a confirmation message at 8 pm each evening covering the departure time, meal stops and attraction parking positions, and the guide replies to confirm, so the next day runs without dispute. This confirmation message carries no prices, only execution details.
Most Junaiyue drivers on the Peninsula line are experienced hands who know which road is smoother from Weihai to Penglai and which service area is clean. When an agency does the Shandong Peninsula for the first time, handing this to Junaiyue to plan is far more reliable than estimating times from an office.
This article was prepared by the dispatch manager of Qingdao Junaiyue Travel Service Co., Ltd., who has worked in local charter dispatch in Qingdao for nine years. Long-chain orders that start with airport pickups and turn into multi-day Peninsula tours are among the author main work every peak season, and the master sheet and batched pickup methods described here come from actual execution records.
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