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New payment system to be introduced on Budapest’s airport shuttle bus
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Budapest’s transport company, BKK, is to test a new payment system on the shuttle bus connecting the downtown of the Hungarian capital with the Liszt Ferenc International Airport, shortly known as Budapest Airport.
New payment system
Mastercard and K&H Bank are joining BKK in testing a brand new digital payment and ticket validation system, already successfully operating in several Western cities. The testing will only concern the Budapest Airport express shuttle bus nr 100E. The digital solution is contactless, and the testing period will start on 20 June, next Tuesday.
The change means you will not have to buy a shuttle bus offline or online ticket from 20 June. Instead, you can buy and validate your digital voucher with your bank or credit card, smartphone or smartwatch via a terminal. The voucher price will be deducted from your account immediately, 24.hu wrote.
London’s public transport uses a very similar system. You do not need to buy a ticket offline or online. Instead, you can acquire your digital voucher with your bank card. Furthermore, the British system monitors your daily travels and deducts only the fee of a daily ticket, regardless of how many times and how long you use the vehicles.
Another way to be tracked, and by MasterCard at that: that citadel of woke Leftism? No, thanks. I’d rather WALK to the airport.