Haywain
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I put them in the Google Wallet.When I buy an e-ticket on the LNER app I use the app to show it. Am I the only person who does ?
I put them in the Google Wallet.When I buy an e-ticket on the LNER app I use the app to show it. Am I the only person who does ?
I prefer to put it into my Apple Wallet so I don't have to faff around opening apps - it just appears on the front screen and displays with one tap.
If rail tickets are the only thing stored on your phone that you'll need then it doesn't make much difference if you save them to an Apple/Google wallet or not.
It does - you get them with one tap, you don't need to unlock your phone and go into the app to get them.
If your phone has facial recognition it can unlock itself, unless you've disabled the feature. Plus many passengers have their phone open anyway when on board ticket inspections occur.
If you've got split tickets there's a press or scroll required to move to another ticket, whether you're using a wallet, app or pdf.
It’s OK, somebody will be along in a minute to mention flat batteries…Nobody's forcing you to do it, but why not simply accept that some of us prefer that option?
But then you have to switch apps.
On Android, tickets added to Google Wallet show as a persistent notification, so just one swipe down and a tap away -- very convenient to access from anywhere really.I'm trying to work out what kind of magic phone you have that results in your ticket appearing when the inspector comes along without you pressing anything, and even if you're using another app at the time
On Android, tickets added to Google Wallet show as a persistent notification, so just one swipe down and a tap away -- very convenient to access from anywhere really.
As long as the barcode can be scanned, theoretically it should be inspectable.Talking of phones and the comments of potentially chucking away a bit of paper in the wallet - is it valid simply to take a photo of the paper ticket on your phone and just bring that up to be scanned?
Where's the second tap coming from?It's two presses like I thought.
I'm trying to work out what kind of magic phone you have that results in your ticket appearing when the inspector comes along without you pressing anything, and even if you're using another app at the time.
Whether or not it's easy to access your 'wallet' it must either require you doing something to access it, or your ticket would always display on the screen for the whole day (which would be annoying and run down the battery).
Where's the second tap coming from?
Indeed, it seems said GA trial of the PRTs has ended at Cambridge, and the machines are now printing out the CCSTs.Something thicker and from the same supplier as the GA trial.
Sounds like a hassle to me.I manage to fit PRT tickets into my National Rail ticket/railcard wallet with just a simple fold. My money wallet already carries "huge sheets" ofpaperplastic. It really isn't the problem you want to make it.
Shouldn't have ended yet.Indeed, it seems said GA trial of the PRTs has ended at Cambridge, and the machines are now printing out the CCSTs.
I personally welcome this reversal; the paper roll tickets were a nightmare in terms of litter, and used to clog up the ticket machines with the receipts. I suspect people are more likely to take with them the brightly coloured CCST, rather than scrappy bits of paper.
Sounds like a hassle to me.
Folding a piece of paper is a hassle?Sounds like a hassle to me.
Well, more of a hassle than not having to in the first place.Folding a piece of paper is a hassle?
I should clarify that this was the type of machine that issues etickets rather than white receipt roll tickets, for any difference this may make (I'm not sure I can immediately think of one, other than possibly shoddy printer quality, given you only get one copy of the eticket and don't seem to be able to get it digitally fulfilled like you can at an Avanti ticket office).I used one of the new TPE machines at Manchester Airport to buy a Blackrod to Chorley ticket yesterday and it was issued to CCST.