Originally Posted by
LordHamster
The First Tech Card I just got is a Mastercard not VISA, so I'm hoping for better luck. We'll see next week when I travel to EMEIA again
Yeah I misspoke. It is a MC.
And it does support offline I believe.
I've been able to use it on unattended kiosks where I couldn't use other cards.
For instance, on train ticket kiosks in Belgium a couple of years ago, where none of my other chip cards would work.
Only other card that worked well overseas was the Barclays Arrival Plus MC, which worked at gas station kiosk in France where other cards wouldn't work. But I got rid of that card after the first year without annual fee.
Hopefully the FT MCs are around for a long time.