Aug 10, 2010
From August 11 Aeroexpress starts selling new tickets: contactless smart cards. They are easy-to-use and will enable passengers to significantly cut costs of frequent rides to the airport and back by rail.
The travel document of a new type is designed for different categories of passengers using high-speed rail transport to get to Vnukovo, Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo Airports and back.
For tourists going on a trip Aeroexpress offers a "round-trip" price plan smart card costing 550 rubles. It is effective for 30 days, the day of purchase included. Provided that, savings from using the card as compared to the usual round-trip tickets will be 50 rubles.
For business passengers frequently going on business trips there is a smart card with a limit of 4 rides costing 1,000 rubles which is effective for one week (the day of purchase included). In this event the passengers will save 200 rubles.
For employees of the Moscow Airline Hub and companies based there, Aeroexpress offers 20 and 30 ride monthly commutation cards costing 3,000 and 4,000 rubles respectively. For reference, the usual unlimited aeroexpress commutation ticket for one month costs 5,500 rubles. Thus, passengers will significantly cut their travel costs by 2,500 rubles a month!
The new travel documents may be bought in Aeroexpress ticket offices located at the stations of departure of the high-speed electric trains. Companies may buy the commutation cards for their employees making a non-cash payment after contacting Aeroexpress JSC.
Aeroexpress commutation card works for its holder only (one person); once used, it will be blocked for 30 minutes.
Contactless tickets have an identification code thanks to which ticket inspector on the electric train reads the required information about the ride with the help of a validator, as well as at pleasure of passengers may check the number of rides unused. To verify the expiration date of their cards passengers may seek assistance of ticket offices.
The smart card is a universal media for coding travel document of any type and is more convenient for accounting. In the future smart cards are going to replace boarding cards issued to passengers in sales offices of Aeroexpress agents. Besides, thanks to them it will be possible to produce combined tickets with carriage partners (e.g. Moscow Metro).