PKP has two new applications. PKP.appka allows you to buy a ticket for trains not only

PKP.appka is a new application of the Polish State Railways. With it, you can check e.g. the location of stations and the services available at them, check information about retail outlets, as well as check real-time updates of train departures and arrivals at a given station, search for connections and buy tickets.

New PKP applications. You can download them now

PKP.appka allows you to buy tickets for trains, as well as suburban and regional trains, including PKP Fast Urban Railway in the Tri-City, Łódź Agglomeration Railway, POLREGIO, Koleje Dolnośląskie, Koleje Śląskie, Koleje Wielkopolskie, Koleje Małopolskie and Arriva RP. The new application also informs about the temporary organization of pedestrian traffic at the station or the functioning of the temporary station during renovations.

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Another function of the new application is the SOS button, which enables a quick connection to the services responsible for security at railway stations working 24 hours a day.

The second application called PKP Intercity, which replaces the existing application called IC Mobile Navigator, is dedicated to travelers using long-distance trains. With its help, you can buy a ticket for a journey with a change, a ticket for transporting a bicycle or additional luggage. The PKP Intercity application also allows you to check the cheapest and fastest connection for the selected route.

PKP succeeded. One million tickets were sold through partner apps

. As Tomasz Gontarz from the management board of PKP Intercity wrote, “commercial results exceeded all expectations of the carrier”. Cooperation with three PKP partners allowed to sell the first million tickets in less than seven months.

The mPay application was the first sale of tickets for state railway trains (this happened on May 31, 2021). On June 2, a similar service was offered in the smartphone application and via the e-podróżnik.pl website. KOLEO joined the group at the end of October. This partner also allowed tickets to be sold via both desktop and app.

PKP informed that the popularity of purchasing tickets via the Internet (both via websites and mobile applications) is constantly growing. Currently, 70% of consumers buy them this way. travelers. In 2019, it was 54.3 percent. people. At the same time, sales at ticket offices and mobile terminals on the train are declining. In the first half of this year, amounted to 32.4 percent, and three years ago it was 46.2 percent.