FIP fares in Switzerland

Just looking for some advice on FIP fares in Switzerland. I see in the RST advice, it's possible to buy tickets for SBB online or at ticket machines by applying the Half-Fare travelcard rate as it's equatable to the FIP discount, provided the ticket only uses SBB or other FIP participating operators.

I'm looking at booking a couple of journeys ahead by doing this but wanted to be sure:

1. Is this discount applicable to the Supersaver tickets?
2. On Point-to-Point tickets, am I right in thinking these permit a break of journey? Presumably these are valid with the FIP Half-Fare travelcard workaround too?
3. Is the Saver Day Pass also applicable for FIP discount?

As usual, anything RST is a bit of a minefield so any help would be greatly appreciated!

TheJRB said:

is this discount applicable to the Supersaver tickets?

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I doubt it - I was always under the impression that the FIP discount is only applicable to the "ordinary" fare. You could e-mail SBB and ask them though.

TheJRB said:

On Point-to-Point tickets, am I right in thinking these permit a break of journey? Presumably these are valid with the FIP Half-Fare travelcard workaround too?

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I don't really know - once again I would e-mail SBB and ask them.

TheJRB said:

Is the Saver Day Pass also applicable for FIP discount?

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As per the Supersaver I suspect not.

Mag_seven has it already. The answers to the questions are No, Yes, No.
Similarly no FIP discounts are available for Railaway special offers offering '1/2' reductions.
The ability to buy FIP fares from ticket machines is a major advantage of travelling in CH! (Try doing something similar from the ticket machines in France..!)

Thanks to both of you for replying, much appreciated.

Gerald Fiennes said:

Mag_seven has it already. The answers to the questions are No, Yes, No.
Similarly no FIP discounts are available for Railaway special offers offering '1/2' reductions.
The ability to buy FIP fares from ticket machines is a major advantage of travelling in CH! (Try doing something similar from the ticket machines in France..!)

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On the No, Yes, No, do you mean that the Point-to-Point tickets are both the standard priv-available fares and that break of journey is permitted? Cheers.

Got the info via Twitter via DM. They replied with the following:

The FIP allows you to buy tickets at a reduced price (half-fare) in Switzerland. Therefore, you can also buy tickets online. Exception: Supersaver offers and trips that are not mentioned on the radius of validity of the FIP. Greetings

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