No additional application is needed. If you already have the Youth Card (Tarjeta Joven) and meet the requirements, you'll automatically get the benefit starting July 1, 2025.
Children up to and including fourteen years of age are eligible for free public transport. This applies to those with Spanish or foreign nationality who are legal residents in Spain, and who were born between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2025.
The Free Child Pass (Bono Gratuito Infantil) is a transport ticket funded by the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility. It allows children under 15 years old to use public transport services affiliated with the Metropolitan Transport Consortia of Andalusia for free, from July 1st to December 31st, 2025. The free travel for children is applied as a bonus at points of sale (tobacconists, kiosks, etc.), meaning you'll get free credit loaded onto your card. When you use the transport services, the usual fare will be deducted from your card.
When you perform the next validation, the system will close the previous journey that was not properly completed. A stage adjustment will be applied, and the corresponding amount for the maximum number of hops (5 hops), minus the amount charged at the entry station, will be deducted from your card.
The rest of the amount of the journey made because part of the amount corresponding to the 0 hops fare has already been deducted in the first validation.
The amount corresponding to the 0 hops fare.
In the first validation at the entry station, the amount corresponding to the 0 hops fare is always deducted. On the second validation, at the exit station, an adjustment is made to charge the remaining part of the amount of my journey.
The journey will not be closed properly and I will be fined.
Yes, it is compulsory, as the amount to be paid is calculated on the basis of the route travelled when the card is validated at the departure station.
They must be validated at the ticket validators or turnstiles both when entering and exiting the stations, even if they are open. This ensures that the journey you have taken is correctly completed.