As of: February 20, 2024, 4:53 p.m
By: Andreas Daschner
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The paper ticket has become obsolete; in future Isarcard subscriptions will be made of plastic.
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The paper ticket is increasingly being sidelined: At MVG, the Isarcard subscription will soon only be available in chip card format.
The Munich Transport Company (MVG) is declaring war on paperwork: In the future, the Isarcard subscription will only be available as a chip card.
This should bring more comfort and service.
Attention: Strip tickets or single tickets are not affected.
They will still be available in paper form in the future.
For the Deutschlandticket, the paper card will have been abolished at the end of 2023.
Affected are the regular Isarcard, the Isarcard65, the Isarcard 9 a.m. (both in the transferable and personal form) and the Isarcard Job.
According to MVG, anyone who has such a subscription doesn't have to worry about anything.
The chip card will soon be sent to all subscribers by post.
New subscribers also receive their chip card in this way when they take out one of the subscriptions mentioned.
Ticket in credit card format should bring advantages
The ticket in credit card format is intended to offer subscribers various advantages, as the MVG reports.
With transferable subscriptions, there are no ticket sheets with twelve tickets for each month.
“The regular exchange - and the accidental forgetting - of the monthly sections on the first of the month is now a thing of the past,” says the MVG.
Changes, for example to the scope of validity, should also be made easier: After a change has been requested online or by telephone via the subscription hotline, there is no need to resend or return the paper tickets, according to the MVG.
Subscription customers can load the changes onto the chip card at ticket machines with the e-logo and in the MVV customer centers.
But be careful!
This is not possible at the machines at the train stations Althegnenberg, Edling, Forsting, Haspelmoor, Langenbach, Marzling, Moosburg ad Isar, Munich Richelstraße, Steinhöring, Tulling and Wasserburg (Inn)!
If the chip card is defective, it becomes complicated
During checks, the inspectors read the chip card.
But what if the chip is not readable?
Then, as with fare evasion, the so-called increased transport fee (EBE) of 60 euros is charged.
Of course, you don't have to pay this if the card is faulty.
However, providing proof requires a little effort: you have to contact the transport company that issued the card.
There it will be checked and the EBE will be canceled if a defect is confirmed.