You can now pay for a trip to Aeroexpress using biometrics in all directions

2023: Contactless payment launch in terminals

Contactless payment service earned for passengers in the terminals of the company "" in and Aeroexpress train Domodedovo airports. Vnukovo Aeroexpress announced this on May 18, 2023.

In each terminal, two turnstiles were connected to biometrics - they are indicated by special stickers.

We see an increase in the popularity of the Russian biometrics payment system, so we connected another type of transport to it. Now the service operates on all railway directions of Aeroexpress. As of May 2023, more than 320 thousand users have already been registered in the system, more than 60 million passes have been made. We expect that by the end of the year about 500 thousand people will use it. The service has a banking level of protection, interference from the outside is excluded. Other payment methods will also continue to work, and the choice will always remain with the passenger. We continue to expand the introduction of domestic digital technologies in public transport according to the task of the Mayor of Moscow. Sobyanin, - said Maxim Liksutov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow in the Moscow Government for Transport.

In January 2023, we already launched payment for biometrics on the route to Sheremetyevo Airport as part of the development of methods of payment for travel, and now this technological service has become available on all Aeroexpress railway routes. Payment for face recognition is especially convenient for air passengers - you do not need to spend time buying a ticket at the ticket office or online, you do not need to apply anything to the turnstile if your hands are busy with luggage, "said Andrei Akimov, General Director of Aeroexpress.

To use the service, you need to link your own, biometric data details bank card and "Troika" in the user's personal account in. application "Moscow Metro" Passengers who already use the service to travel to the metro and the MCC do not need to re-register.

To pass through the turnstiles at the airport, you need to stop in front of the corresponding turnstile and look at the camera located on it. After the passenger is identified, funds will be debited from the bank card at the Standard tariff and the turnstile doors will open automatically.

Payment for biometrics in the Domodedovo and Vnukovo directions is available only when traveling from/to Paveletsky and Kievsky railway stations.