Will my Navigo Pass be replenishable next year?

Question

NYC OMNI "tap & go" passes are refillable and do not expire for 5 years.

The French equivalent is Navigo: I purchased a weekly pass for 5 + 30 Euros. Can I reuse the pass next year in Paris? 2 years from now?

Answer 1

A Navigo pass (the phyiscal card) is valid for 10 years. This applies to all the types: Navigo Easy (transferable, can be loaded with single-trip tickets and day passes), Navigo Découverte (personal, for non-residents, can be loaded with day/week/month passes, that's the one you have), and Navigo (personal, for residents, can be loaded with day/week/month/year passes).

Answer 2

You can definitely keep the card and reuse it much later. I’m not sure if there’s any guarantee of how long the card will be usable, but unless there’s an incompatible technology change there’s no reason you can’t use it.

As far as I know passes are not actively invalidated after a set time.

So you should be able to reuse the card in a year or two (and probably much longer) just by loading a new pass onto it.

Sadly the Navigo system is a sorry mess and there are different types of cards which support different types of passes and tickets and so on (and many tickets just can’t be loaded on a card at all), but weekly passes and a few others will clearly be loadable.

You can check what you can load onto the card by using either of the apps which support it (like the one from RATP, the company which operates the metro and some parts of the RER, tram and bus networks): go into the tickets tab, read the card, and it will let you know what you can load onto it.