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Swiss Half Fare on the SBB app

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I have downloaded the SBB app (haven't registered yet) and will buy the BO or Jungfrau Pass as well (tbd), but more questions...

  1. Can I /Should I buy the half fare for both my husband and I through my app, rather than each of us having our own on separate apps. I mean we just went to a concert where everyone was over 60 and watching everyone try to get their tickets off their ticketmaster app or apple wallet was pretty comical and slow; so trying to manage individually seems sort of double the trouble. In France I used the SCNF app for both of our tickets.

  2. When you buy the BO or Jungfrau Pass do those tickets also end up on the SBB app? Or are they in a separate app?

Thank you!

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  1. No, you can’t add two half fare cards to one app. You can purchase tickets for both of you and have them in your app, but not the Half Fare Card.
  2. No, These passes can not go on the SBB app and there is no app for them.
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SwissNomad, you are even answering questions I didn’t even know I had. Thank you! Can the Half fare card and other passes be kept in Apple Wallet or is it expected that we carry a printed paper? How does that work?

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The Half fare card is needed to travel with half price tickets, it is not needed to purchase half price tickets.

So for example when I an my wife travel somewhere I often buy the tickets for both of us. That means that I have two tickets on my phone. When you add passengers you can indicate that the passenger has the half fare card. Do not forget to indicate that for yourself as well! This is not automatic unfortunately.

Then when the conductor comes I show both the tickets. My wife shows her Half Fare Card. In our case I do not need to show my half fare card as I have the Swiss domestic one, which contains a picture and is integrated in the app. So when the conductor scans my ticket my picture, and the fact that I have the HFC appears on his terminal.

In the case of the tourist HFC you will both have to show it. It does not matter how, as long as the QR code is readable.

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I have my HFC in my app, same as WengenK does, but ours is a year long one, different from the tourist one.
Same with the Jungfrau pass, I had a season long one in the past. It was a card, like a credit card that I tapped to get onto the gondolas and things.

Another tourist will have to answer the specifics of using the shorter duration passes as that’s something I don’t have experience with :)

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