Yellow Line The total number of users using the service exceeded 7.8 people/trip. Push rail passenger numbers to the highest since the outbreak of Covid.

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Dr. Pichet Kunathamarak, Director-General of the Department of Rail Transport, revealed that on Friday, June 23, 2023, there were 73,801 passengers on the Yellow Line electric train, bringing the total number of rail users to 1,587,964 passengers. This is the highest number of passengers since the COVID-19 pandemic began. This includes 70,635 passengers on intercity trains and 1,517,329 passengers on electric trains within Bangkok and its surrounding areas.

– Airport Rail Link : 69,778 passengers per trip

- Red Line suburban train : 24,823 passengers/trip (including 203 passengers/trip who transfer from long-distance trains to the Red Line for free).

- The Chaloem Ratchamongkhon Line (Blue Line) has 415,504 passengers per trip.

- Chalong Ratchatham Line (Purple Line) : 49,263 passengers per trip.

- Green Line Skytrain : 876,503 passengers/trip

- Gold Line Skytrain : 7,657 passengers per trip.

- Yellow Line Skytrain : 73,801 passengers/trip (second only to June 21, 2566, which had the highest number of passengers at 74,348).

The previous highest number of users of the rail system occurred on February 10, 2566, at 1,577,330 people/trip, which when the Yellow Line opened for service, allowing people who use the service to connect to the Chaloem Ratchamongkhon Line. (at Lat Phrao Station), Airport Rail Link Line (at Hua Mak Station) and BTS Sukhumvit Line (at Samrong Station) more convenient.

In addition, users of the electric rail system use EMV cards to travel between the Chaloem Ratchamongkhon Line (Blue Line) and the Yellow Line. You will receive a discount on the entrance fee. If traveling from the blue line into the yellow line The entrance fee of 15 baht will be waived. As for the yellow line entering the blue line. The entrance fee of 14 baht will be waived.

In the case where people travel by electric train both going out and returning. It will help reduce the entrance fee by approximately 29 baht per day. In waiving the entrance fee by using an EMV card, when tapping the card to enter the electric train system, the full price will be charged first. and will receive a refund of the entrance fee back to the credit/debit card in no less than 3 days, with the period depending on the card issuing bank





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