"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 12:59:45 on Thu, 24 Jan
2013, tim..... remarked:
There's a premium on the metro to Madrid airport [...]

...although it doesn't apply to any "period" tickets, including the
tourist n-day tickets. When I used it the premium would have been one
euro, not much but still quite controversial there.

only be the cheapskates who thought that they could get away without
paying it!

There are vending machines at the airport station (before you get to the
barriers) which sell the supplement.

I know

I had a "fun" hour there once watching all the people who thought that they
cheated the system by getting a "normal" ticket look at the exit checks with
horror (as normally in Madrid there are none).

In the grand scheme of things, one Euro more on a foreign trip is neither
here nor there.

I agree

didn't stop them trying to avoid it though

tim