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The JAL
Group and JR East, Japan’s major railway company, based in Tokyo, will start
accepting applications for their new joint smart card ‘’JALCARD SUICA’’ from December 1st. The plan to launch the new card
was first announced on April 21, 2004.
The new card is a
credit and electronic money card created by combining the JAL Group’s JALCARD and the JR East ‘’View
Suica’’ credit and electronic money card. Applications for the new card open on December 1st via the JAL Card and JR East
home pages, JAL Group sales offices and airport counters and JR East View Plaza sales offices. New cards will be delivered
in January 2005.
The new card will provide a wide range of interchangeable benefits for domestic air and rail users. Cardholders will be able to
use the card to earn flight miles, as a credit card and to pay for rail transport through an IC stored fare function. When using it
as a credit card to buy rail fares, ‘’JALCARD SUICA’’ can accumulate JR East ‘’Thanks Points’’ which can be used to credit
future rail travel or converted to air miles in the JAL Mileage Bank (JMB), the airline’s frequent flyer programme
(FFP).
From February 2005 JALCARD SUICA cardholders will be able to use the card for JAL’s new automated ticket-less ‘’Touch and
Go’’ check-in service that eliminates the need for tickets or boarding
passes. This new service will start at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport and will later be installed at other domestic airports in Japan.
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