UnionPay to Support QuickPass in Hong Kong MTR from 2024

TapTechNews August 20th news, UnionPay International officially announced today that the designated gates of the heavy rail network of the Hong Kong MTR (except for the Airport Express stations) will start to support UnionPay QuickPass from August 24, 2024.

TapTechNews learned that since 2022, the MTR has opened the service of supporting the QR code scanning of UnionPay's Cloud QuickPass App to pass through the gates. This cooperation adds the opening of supporting the UnionPay QuickPass service to pass through the gates.

Passengers can flexibly choose the UnionPay credit card that supports the QuickPass function, or the UnionPay mobile QuickPass products such as HuaweiPay and ApplePay that are bound to the UnionPay credit card, and swipe the phone to pass through the gates at the gates marked with light blue, without having to buy tickets separately. After arriving at the station, the fare will be deducted from the used UnionPay card according to the itinerary.

According to the introduction, UnionPay payment services have covered the local and cross-border transportation systems in Hong Kong and Macau. At present, the local main means of transportation such as KMB, Citybus, Long Win Bus, Tram and Macau Public Bus, and cross-border transportation such as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-Speed Rail, Shenzhen-Hong Kong cross-border bus, and cross-border jetfoils between Hong Kong and Macau have all supported UnionPay.