MTR has frozen fares for two consecutive years

SighingCashier · 2026-03-27T19:11:55+00:00

Hong Kong MTR announced that ticket prices for the 2026/27 fiscal year will remain unchanged, marking the second consecutive year of frozen fares, with a cumulative delay in fare increases of 4.81%. According to the transportation industry wage index and consumer price index, the adjustment mechanism shows that the reason for the unchanged fares is due to the alignment of these two indices.

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2026-03-27 19:11:55

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March 28, 2026

MTR Freezes Fares for Two Consecutive Years

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MTR (00066) announced that fare prices for the 2026/27 fiscal year will remain unchanged, marking the second consecutive year of fare freezes.
The cumulative delay in increases reaches 4.81%.
MTR stated that, based on the nominal wage index in the transportation industry rising by 3% year-on-year last December and the composite consumer price index increasing by 1.4%, according to the direct driving equation of the adjustment mechanism, factoring in a 0.8% reduction due to productivity factors, along with a 1.45% increase from last year’s fare adjustment carried over to this year’s calculation, the fare…

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