Public transport · Switzerland

GA, Halbtax or Halbtax PLUS?

Tell us what your train, bus and boat tickets would cost a year at full fare: we work out which national pass costs least, with the official tariff prices now and from the timetable change on 13 December 2026.

  • CHF 3’995 GA 2nd class until 12.12.2026
  • CHF 4’095 from 13.12.2026
  • CHF 190 Halbtax (first purchase)
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Tickets a year at full fare · what you would pay without any pass

Until 12 December 2026

Alliance SwissPass, tariff T654, edition 01.06.2026

  1. Halbtax PLUS · cheapest

    Halbtax CHF 190 and PLUS 2000 for your half-fare tickets

    CHF 1’690a year

  2. Halbtax

    Halbtax CHF 190 and every ticket at half fare

    CHF 2’190a year · CHF 500 more

  3. GA 2nd class

    Unlimited travel, no tickets

    CHF 3’995a year · CHF 2’305 more

  4. No pass

    Every ticket at full fare

    CHF 4’000a year · CHF 2’310 more

The GA 2nd class is the cheapest option from about CHF 10’500 of full-fare tickets a year.

From 13 December 2026

Alliance SwissPass, news of 4 August 2026

  1. Halbtax PLUS · cheapest

    Halbtax CHF 195 and PLUS 2000 for your half-fare tickets

    CHF 1’695a year

  2. Halbtax

    Halbtax CHF 195 and every ticket at half fare

    CHF 2’195a year · CHF 500 more

  3. No pass

    Every ticket at full fare

    CHF 4’000a year · CHF 2’305 more

  4. GA 2nd class

    Unlimited travel, no tickets

    CHF 4’095a year · CHF 2’400 more

The GA 2nd class is the cheapest option from about CHF 10’700 of full-fare tickets a year.

Prices until 12.12.2026: Alliance SwissPass tariff T654, edition 01.06.2026. From 13.12.2026: the decision Alliance SwissPass announced on 4 August 2026 (an average rise of 3.6%, agreed with the Price Supervisor), which gives the adult GA and the new adult Halbtax; the other December prices are not published yet and are not guessed. We enter the tariff by hand from each new edition; our bot does not download the tariff files, which the publisher’s robots.txt excludes.

Halbtax PLUS (SBB): pay CHF 800 for CHF 1000 of credit, CHF 1500 for 2000 or CHF 2100 for 3000 (from 25; lower prices from 6 to 24), spent on half-fare tickets within a year. We choose the cheapest mix of packages and count credit you leave unused as lost; SBB refunds the unused paid-in part, so PLUS can cost a little less than shown.

Not included yet: fare-network (zone) passes, the GA Night, GA Duo and Familia, and Sparbillette. Prices are per person and year. MEconomy sells no tickets and is paid by no transport company (how we make money).