Now, the passengers travelling on the Orange Line or popularly known as the Airport Express Line need not stand in long queues to purchase tickets at metro stations as the Delhi metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has extended the QR code-based ticketing facility through smart phones for trip based journeys too and will start from Monday. The QR code facility was earlier only limited to single journeys.
With the introduction of this facility, commuters, especially the regular ones who use Trip Passes (a type of smart card valid on Airport Line only) for travelling on Airport Express Line will be able to use the QR Code generated on their smart phones instead of usual practice of purchasing or recharging their Trip Passes from Metro stations.
"The move will do away the need for a passenger desirous of availing this QR code facility to have a physical Trip Pass separately and subsequent queuing up at stations to recharge them from time to time," said a DMRC official.
Official also said that the system of trip based ticketing through QR code using smart phones will enable passengers to purchase trip based tickets using 'Ridlr or PayTm App'- the agencies which have tied up with DMRC for this facility, without physically coming to the Metro station.
"A commuter can easily, download Ridlr or PayTm application from Playstore (available on both android & IOS platforms) and register into the App with your valid credentials including mobile no. and email- id. After which, they can purchase QR code based trip ticket by selecting the origin station and destination station. App will display the fare for the selected number of trips for selected journey stations. User can tap the QR enabled AFC entry gates of the Metro stations on Airport Line. The AFC gate will open and user can commence journey," they said.
The facility is available at all the six Metro stations of Airport Express Line and currently, about 60,000 passengers daily of which around 65% use Trip Passes for their travel, which offer discount up to 40% for every journey performed on this line in comparison to single journey tokens/QR tickets, added the official.