In Europe parking at the airport usually costs more than your Ryanair/Easyjet flight!

I read that Michael O Leary ( CEO of Ryanair) was seen flying to Dublin on a British Airways flight. When asked why he wasn't flying with Ryanair, he said all the Ryanair flights were fully booked.

One big attraction of rail travel in Europe is that your train journey finishes in the centre of the city you are going to. This saves all the hassle and expense of getting into town from an airport. Cheap airfares are ok but there are hidden costs like having to pay for luggage.

I used to pay £1 for a return ferry trip to France as a foot passenger from the UK when The Sun newspaper had a coupon offer. It was a good day out.

a trip from Australia to Europe is about 1/2 the price of a trip from Australia to the USA, even though its a longer flight.

Remember this when someone bad mouths ryanair. Even if you get all the extras it's still super cheap but people complain about paying €10 extra for priority, seat and extra bag on their €30 flight. That flight used to be €600 before deregulation.

For shorter to medium distances, the train can often be faster when you calculate all the additonaly security, pre boarding and baggage claim times. Especially since train stations tend to be in the city center and airports are not.

I have flown from Berlin to Rome, Milan, Paris, London or Edinburgh several times for under 50 Euros per flight. Flying is really cheaper than any other form of travel in Europe.

I live in Manchester, UK which is a 2.5 hour train ride from London. It was cheaper for me to fly to Italy, stay in a hotel for 2 nights to have a mini holiday and fly from there to Manchester than it was to get the train from London to Manchester

Long distance busses are generally really nice here. Especially the plus seats. Not much more cost, and even more comfortable than really comfortable.

The population of Europe mentioned in the video is all of Europe, including Russia with 145 million people. The population of the EU is 448 million, which is probably what you remember. It's easy to forget that EU is just a part of Europe.

I recently travelled to Gdansk in Poland from Copenhagen. The outward journey to Gdansk was around 15 Euro. Cheaper than a regularly priced meal at a restaurant in Copenhagen😂😂 And the way back was 21 euro. Your knees will be broken tho if you're over like 6 foot 1. Also Flixbus is INSANELY cheap. If you book far enough in advance you can go from Copenhagen (Denmark) to Bucharest (Romania) for like 30 USD and that's a 40 hour bus journey😅

I live in Poland. Lots of people from the UK or Netherlands fly with Wizzair to Poland for 10 euro's on a thursday and go back on a Sunday. This is very common if you book early.

Flights in Europe on average have become more expensive post Covid where the travel industry took a big hit, but prior to that I usually could snag up flights from Denmark to France, Switzerland, Germany etc for 30 bucks one way very consistently. Usually made it cheaper to travel 1.5k kilometers with plane, than 100km with train lol.

I used to fly Dublin to Birmingham UK to meet up with a friend. The curry we went for cost more than my flights, €5.99 each way. If you understand and stick to the rules and can manage without tons of luggage, Ryanair can be very cheap.

Yesterday I booked a day trip to Rome from London for tomorrow. Arrive in Rome at 10am and leave at 10pm. All for £22. The way they make money on these cheap flights is by charging £60-£120 to bring a bag; but if your only going for a day or the weekend, u don’t need an extra bag.

Even ferries are an option in some parts of Europe... For example, if I were to travel from Finland to Estonia, Sweden or Germany, ferry is a very realistic and even the primary option (not to Germany necessarily). I might take a car with me.

At my previous job, I often had to go to Germany from Budapest, usually around Munich. This is approx. 400 miles and 7-8 hours of driving. By plane, it takes not much less time if I look at the distance from door to door. I always went by car, even though the plane ticket is cheap. A petrolhead remains a petrolhead, and so does the autobahn... :-)

Theres also Interrail Europe rom €283 for 4 days to 15 days within 2 months for €583 or 22 consecutive days at €586 plus many other variations. This enables you to travel across many different European countries simply by turning up/or pre-booking - there are sleeping cars too. Very reliable international trains on a strict daily schedule between major cities including Uk. Very comfortable, efficient and enjoyable way for Europeans (incl Brits) to see the continent. Can make up your itinerary as you go along too! BEST PART you see the landscape and meet the nationals whilst travelling- often adding must see places to your list as you travel!

In Europe there are also many ferries for foot and vehicle passengers. Where I live, people also travel short trips by hovercraft.

I did a day trip with Ryanair a couple of weeks ago from London to Dublin and back for £20. A round trip ticket from where I live to Central London by train costs £31 for a 40-minute journey.

Ryanair has a policy that the first ticket on the plane is €1 and as the plane fills up, the tickets are more and more expensive the last few free tickets are usually at full price (in the middle of the tourist season), but that ticket is still 20% cheaper than the cheapest Brand company let's say now, in winter, a flight from Eindhoven (Netherlands) to Zagreb (Croatia) is from €10 - €50 (1300 km) in summer in the tourist season €45 - €120 it's a one-way ticket **** the point with cheap tickets is that there are a lot of extras so the ticket is €10, but you can't choose a seat if you want to reserve a seat, it is an additional €10 if you have a suitcase, it's €30 extra (if you didn't register it right away, but at the airport, then it's €50 extra) juice (cola) is €3 for 1 dcl (in a vending machine, a cola is 3.3 dcl) **** and it seems to me that cheap tickets in the EU will be as long as the owner CEO Ryanair is alive when bankers eager for bonuses and profits in the "next quarter" take over, everything will go to hell

Bear in mind that those cheap flights have other charges, but they are still cheap. Often, when an airline has a nearly full plane, they will sell the last few tickets for whatever they can get. It is often cheaper to fly from Glasgow to London, than it is to take a train. Ryanair has a poor reputation but I have flown with them many times with no complaints.

Train travel always is the primary option when traveling. It is just as fast, no dealing with airports, it is way more comfertable and you leave and arrive in the center of the city directly.

It depends on when you buy your ticket. For example, a one-way ticket from Prague to London for this week starts at $50, but for flights next week you can find tickets starting at $30 and some early bird tickets for April or May are under $25.

Something they failed to mention is that the cheap flights offer minimal facilities and you need to pay extra for checked in luggage and lots of other things that would be included with the more expensive flights. Even buying a ticket at the airport will cost a lot more than buying it online. You have to print out your own boarding pass and luggage labels, even passport control is done by machine.

5:42 a little known fact, is that red paint on airplane from airlines that operates from cold countries. like the red nose on Norwegian or the completely red planes from Airgreenland, is more of a practical/safety choice, because snow is white, so if the plan crashes, the red color makes it easier to spot. On the opposite side, the reason plane's usually are white is to minimize temperature differences by reflecting heat, between being in the air (really really cold) and being on the ground, to reduce metal fatigue. What can you use all of this info to, I don't know, but now you know 😅

There is something crucial missing in their video by the looks of it. So let me tell you a little story. We write the year 2023. A friend from LA want to go to a convention in Atlanta. We both did look for plane tickets. He found a nice round trip for 350 USD. Now here is the strange thing: I found the same flights for 150 USD. Same Flight number, same day. The only difference is that he lives in LA, and i live in germany. Also, nice Graz license plate in the background. :)

Hi, great video as always, thanks for that. So the Ryanair works (and most low cost) is that the very cheap fare means the only thing you can take with you is a small bag that will fit under the seat in front of you. You also get to sit where you are told to, if you are going on a short flight and a weekend away that’s perfect and very cheap. Next option is to take the same small bah plus a carry on case which goes in the overhead locker (must be max dimensions ….I forget the size and not way more than 10kg) in this option you get to choose where you sit within certain options , usually somewhere back from the main door through the back of the plane, if you pay a small extra you can get a premium seat up front or with extra leg room , these options are available for the lower fare also but cost more. Finaly there is the option to have a large 20kg case in the hold and an under-seat bag if you need to take more stuff with you, which again is more expensive at the end of 2023 y flew to the north of Spain from the south coast where I live with the carry-on case option and sitting up front, the return flight cost me 42 euros (1 hour flight) (yes total price return. En November y flew to the uk with a large case in the hold, again sitting up front, this is a 3.5-hour fight this cost me 102 euros. Finaly, I flew to Lisbon in Portugal 1 hour 15 mins. With carry on case and up-front seat, 51.50 euros total cost return flight. Interestingly it took me a 9-minute train ride from my home town to the airport, this is free at the moment as are all local trains in Spain, normally cost me less than 2 euros. From Lisbon airport we got the underground train into the city center and changed to a second line to the apartment we have rented, I don’t recall but believe it cost less than 5 euros the whole trip. Trains here have historically been expensive but since France and Italy have started low-cost high-speed trains, we can get verry good prices. I have seen prices from Málaga to Madrid for 9 euros on super clean fast trains

quite often the Ryanair airports are in the middle of nowhere so you have to take a shuttle bus to the city they call the airport and the shuttle buses can be more expensive than the flight.

I also did Spakenburg, Paris. By Bus 61/2 hours. The High Speed Train 5 1/4. And by car 27 times, usually 4 1/2 hours over 500 km. And stop once.

Ryanair used to do promotional fares for 1p…..I once had a great day trip to Dublin for just 2p return! Now the cheapest fares tend to start at £9.99 each way, but that’s still amazing value.

Sometimes flights in Europe, especially with Ryanair, can be ridiculously cheap. I flew once from Nuremberg to Bergamo for 9€. As living in Italy, also domestic flights can be very cheap. Just considering ar the moment flying from Pisa to Palermo in February for 17 one way. Especially to the islands it is just so much cheaper and less time consuming than taking a train. Even if the cross boarder train system in Europe is improving luckily as well.

One thing that is always missed is that the time in air is wasted time with a flight. You can't work in the air using your laptop or phone and you have to be early at the air port hours in advance to check in. A train is nearly as fast and you can work or arrive fresh when using an overnight train in a sleep compartment. No need to book an hotel when you can sleep on the train.

9:59 Acela is actually using version of european train sets. Alstom Pendolino - italian for pendulum ( Used in EU in Czech Republic , Finland, Spain, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, Great Britain and Italy). Also Because Acela does not have priority on tracks like high speed trains in EU (in US freight trains have priority, because MONEY.....) it almost can't use it's speed advantage (it can go 300 km/h) as it can go near full speed only couple % of the tracks that it runs on (and it only can run on couple % in the US)

And believe.... TgV at 200 mph, traveling sit on a lesther sofa ... it's so confortable.😊

I take the train as the first choice always. Plane only if I have to get somewhere longer distance like from Sweden to Spain, because then the inconvenience time spent at the airport isn't such a big deal... but man, airports just suck compared to train cross-countries.

That's interesting, for example in Spain the High Speed Rrail network has been liberalized (We have the 2nd largest network in the world) this has helped the number of domestic flights to reduce drastically, in the main corridors the High Speed train exceeds 70% of the market. ⬇ Generally speaking, domestic flights have been greatly reduced in mainland Spain, adding the future pollution regulations and the trend to increase rail transport in the European Union, I believe that flights between countries in Europe will be reduced considerably as the years go by. Gretings!

you dont pay 1 or 10 euros for those tickets tho. taxes, insurance, administration costs, lugage payment and so on add up on the actual cost. you might end up paying 60 euro or more on a 10 euro ticket. in the netherlands there are about 416 persons per square kilometer (2020). theres a buscompany called flixbus that takes you from amsterdam to Paris for 26 euro 1way and it takes you 7 hours. a 1 way ticket with air france from amsterdam to paris cost 329 (without the extra cost before mentioned) and takes you about 1.5 hours flight without the hours waiting on the airport the high speed eurostar train from amsterdam to paris cost between 35-135 euro depending how early ahead you book your ticket 4 months in advance will cost 35 today 135 euro and it takes you in 3.15 hours. so what would you choose.. again a nice video thank you

I used to fly to Ireland quite frequently, and when Ryannair put out their €1 I would by ten or more at a time for different dates and times that I might want/need to fly. Even if I only actually used one or two, it was still a bargain. The budget carriers make their money on baggage, seat booking, check-ins and priority boarding plus other extras. I flew to Romania in October with Wizzair. and bought a budget ticket for €25. I only took hand luggage and didn't pay for any of the other "EXTRAS" like choosing my own seat or taking any other luggage and THAT was all I paid. If I had wanted an "ACTUAL" ticket, or wanted to check-in with a person r taken a bag, or wanted a seat, etc. it could have been way more expensive.

The cheapest flights I took were around 30€ return from Germany to Venice as far as I remember. Those fares are a bit less common these days as fares and fees have gone up but you can still make good bargains if you're flexible

I am from Amsterdam, Netherlands. I have taken flights often to major cities in Europe (Paris, Munchen, Milan, Rome, Naples etc.) The very good qualified Duch airline is KLM (it is not a budget airline) but for regular passengers they offer a price of circa 150 euro to the majority of European cties. This is a flight and returnflight combined for that price.

A lot of European companies hove now adopted a policy of using trains instead of planes if the travel time is less than 4 hours by train. For example, if I were to travel to Paris by plane, I'de have to go to the airport, be there at least 1 hour in advance, fly to Paris and then spend at least an hour getting from the airport into Paris propper. By comparisson, I can get on a Eurostar train at the station and be in the centre of Paris less than 3 hours later

Yep, I am taking a coach/bus from Alicante to Barcelona in spain this year, costed me 45€ round trip. meanwhile the flights were around 175€ round trip.

$60 seems expensive even for Ryanair. I once flew Sweden > France > Portugal > UK > Sweden for like $5 in total. One of the flights was like $0.13.

Nothing beats traveling with a car. Ive driven from spain to finland and back multiple times and it only takes 3 days

Travelling in Europe in general is pretty cheap and convenient. There's a plethora of options. I've been living in northern Italy for 5 months and used to travel every so often, usually with the bus or the train. If you order in time you can literally get tickets for 0,50 euros at times (Venice - Bologna route, which are cities 170 km apart, a 2h journey). Flixbus serves more or less the whole continent and then there are local cheap carriers who compete with them as well, like Itabus here in Italy. You can get to any location you want pretty easily, cheap and rather fast, when combining bus and train rides. My last three travels were to Mantova, Parma and Ravenna. Payed all together about less than 50€ for those three combined You take a bus to a well connected bigger city (Bologna and Verona in this case) and then the train to those hidden-gems of cities which are more secluded.

Other option very common in Europe (also being a competition to planes, trains and buses) is carsharing. Just last week I've been traveling (on business) Warsaw (Poland) -> Jena (Germany) and back and chose to use 'blablcar' (carsharing, which actualy turned out to beeing a passenger in a large lorry) - [payed 40$, almost door-to-door] and taking a Flixbus on the way back [45$, citycenter-to-citycenter]. Train was a bit slower and a bit more expensive.

The lowest air fare I have paid from Luton to Castellon in Spain was £27 return for me and the wife and £20 for the kids, this was the price without trying to find the lowest fares.

Cheapest trip I ever took was from my hometown in Germany to London-Luton with Easyjet -- special offer, mid-week return trip (leaving at 7.15am, returning at 6.30pm the same day), one hour 10 minutes either way, for a total of €45 per person, circa 2003. Perfect for shopping -- with the one-hour time difference, you arrived just in time to have breakfast before the stores opened, could have a leisurely lunch in the city, tea at the airport and be home again in time for dinner. Unfortunately, Easyjet no longer is present at our local airport, and prices have gone up quite a bit. 😞 But even nowadays, if I catch the right promotion, I can still visit my relatives in Poland (90-minute flight to Gdansk, with Hungarian airline Wizzair) for ~€30 one way -- not counting check-in luggage, though. Basically, you can get these low prices by keeping abreast of promotions, not flying on weekends, Monday mornings or Friday evenings (too many business commuters), and being quick to book; the closer you come to your flight date, the higher the price. And check-in luggage can get VERY pricey if not booked in advance -- sometimes, a bag too large for the overhead compartment can cost you more than the flight!

Where I live in northern Norway they also complete with boats. Or rather, common cruises that people opt to take for a the joy of it. Although during the turist season that can be pretty expensive.

Buses are brilliant sit back chill out watch the country side go by stop have a break. Have food or fall asleep chill out no stress trying to get to the plane it's a relaxing way to travel

My last flights from Germany to UK was E20 one way and E15 the other so 35 euro round trip, Cheaper than a late night taxi across town. Was with Ryanair.

A couple of years ago I flew with Ryanair from Gothenburg to Stockholm. We were 8 people. It cost us 270kr (~27usd). In TOTAL.

When i visit my dad or my sisters, they are living in austria and i in munich/germany, every time i take the ride on the FlixBus, they offer a price that is unbeatable, between 12 and 16 Euros for the driven distance of 189km one way over the austrian border.

The relatively compact nature of Europe means that in particular low cost carriers can make multiple flights per day with one plane. Data I found for Ryanair showed average daily flights of 3078 with a fleet of 575 aircraft (for May and August 2023, respectively). This would mean on average more than five flights per day and aircraft (that number even surprised me, I hope I didn’t misunderstood something).

Additional expenses do add up big time, as do inconvenience and the regular air travel hassle. On shorter, continental trips, trains are often the preferred option.

Ive recently booked flights for my holidays in April: Prague-Naples for 32 EUR and back Rome-Prague for 42 EUR basic fairs plus 30 each way for priority boarding that includes small bag and standard cabin luggage on board... in total 134 euros, no more fees and front row seats 🤷‍♂️🤣

Vilnius to Prague (556 miles) cost me ~15 USD with a bus that had a wifi and installed tablet in seats. few years ago

Yup, travel in Europe is simple. You want the plain, it is convenient but to compare two scenarios I experienced. Airlines advise you to arrive 2 hrs before the flight. I live in the UK and if I want to travel to Poland which is the other side of Europe, I'll break down the travel one way for two scenarios. 1. Travel by plane - about 1.3hrs to get to the airport servicing budget airlines, say (more) reasonable 1.5 hrs rather than advised arrival before the flight, 2.5 hrs flight and checks at the airport, plus another hour to arrive at destination. This brings us to about 5.3 hrs minimum, food and drinks at the airport or during travel will be at the extortionate prices but you will arrive early. (I normally chose this option though :) ) 2. My ex's mother didn't want to travel by plane so we arranged for the bus. Taxi picked her up from home and took her 20 min to the bus station at the pre-lunch time. She had some sandwiches and drinks before fell asleep and woke up the next morning when they stopped for breakfast (I can't remember, I think France but am not sure), Then she hopped back on that bus and was dropped off just 10 min away from where we lived and my ex brought her home for the lunch I just finished cooking. It seems longer but is not really such inconvenience. She was happy with the travel and it was almost like PLlunch-to-lunchUK kind of thing. The train would be faster but she would need to change so we chose the bus. All the best to all.

Nice video. In Europe you have to add a system called Blablacar, where a driver goi g to a specific location offers the empty seats in his car at a cheap price, usually the gas consumption.

Rynair wants to keep working in lower prices... and Germany increase the taxes.. So, they stop working with Germany, they prefer keep the lower prices... Also know that France, stoped the short flights because of the C02... you can use train and it's cleaner... right now, it's a big project in Europe to connect all the big cities by TGV High speed train. this will be a new dynamic for the future

Daughter lived in Dublin for a while. While she was there RyanAir frequently offered €0.50 flights to Glasgow - less than 1€

the offers on the fares in Europe are always not including taxes. So if you pay 1 euro to the airline, you still need to pay all the taxes so the flight may cost at the end 50 or 100 euros depending on the taxes on both departure and destination places. But yes, I've travelled to Amsterdam and other destinations in Europe for £18 return... not anymore, but it was fun while it lasted... sometimes you can get good offers but now you are expected to pay around £50 for a cheap flight to Madrid or Barcelona from London. I can also jump on a train in London and be in Paris in 3 hours... dependency on cars is less than in the US throughout Europe where people would prefer to jump on a train or a plane rather than spend hours on end in their cars, but even if you want to take your car, I can jump in my car and then (inside my car) jump in the Eurostar train and cross into France in 30min and then drive to many other European countries within the same day... In the US, sometimes going from one side to the other takes days in your car...

Daughter now in Lucerne. Den there several times. Forget the planes. Trains are the go. Quick (up to 170km/h), quiet, power for your laptop etc. Awesome. In Switzerland if the train is supposed to arrive at 11:13, it does. If is meant to leave at 15:57 it does. Set your (Swiss;) watch by the w

I went from Dublin to Copenhagen return flight for €35, and €12(€6 x 2) of that was for reserving a particular seat

the good thing about high speed rail is that you are going from downtown to downtown, so you dont have a commute to the airport

Flying in Europe is nowadays like taking the bus indeed. Just this morning we took the plane from Luxembourg to Frankfurt, took our car and drove back. The flight was 30min (very funny 😆), the drive more than 3h.

I travel regular from Salzburg (Austria) to the Netherlands, a good 1000km. I prefer to take the night train over a plane or car. Yes, it takes 12 hours, but that's from door to door, when flying, it's not the 1 hour flight that counts, the getting to and from the airport, the waiting at the airport with all the added costs that counts. The same trip by plane would maybe take 8 hours in total and that's always during the day, so a full day gone. When you travel while sleeping, you lose a lot less time. You can leave friday after work, go somewhere, have 2 full days at your destination, take the train back sunday evening and be back home in time for work. That doesn't work by plane.

meanwhile in Canada, if I want to fly from my province and go in the north of the same province, it cost 5000$...

The cheapest flight I was ever on via WizzAir was from London (UK) to Košice (Slovakia), it was a 2,5 hour long flight and I payed for a one way ticket 7,20€.

not joking for years back in the late 2000s we would get £9.99 flights on ryanair all around the uk/portugal and spain. Over the years we went on literally 100+ weekend trips to places in the uk and europe for next to nothing. Nowadays if you book in advance you can still find deals for £20-25 return flights to certain locations. My flight to portugal last month was £33. Ryanair planes are small and barebones, its a rough ride especially for me at 192cm.

I live less than a mile away from an airport here in Cornwall England and can fly return to the south of Spain for £27, it would cost more to get a taxi to my nearest train station.

There are certain routes where the High Speed Rail is so much more convenient that the the Low Cost Airlines have stopped serving them. Madrid to Barcelona and Milan to Rome are two examples of this where there are at least two trains each hour. The EU is also trying to increase competition on the rail network. Countries have to allow Train Companies from other countries to use their tracks. That route from Madrid to Barceloa has 4 different companies operating on it, which can of course be confusing. And France has announced that they will phase out Low Cost Flights between cities that have a high-speed rail connection. I still get a kick out of passing traffic on the motorways, like they are going backwards.

There is a Ryan Air (2 words) in the US, but they are a completely unrelated complany that flies prop planes throughout Alaska. Altough they are a commercial Airline.

Rail is a great option in Europe mainly because distances are relatively short. A connection from one end of the continent to the other would be very inconvenient and you would have to switch trains several times. But going from one population center in a European country to the next is fast and easy. Unless there are complications along the way, of course. Rails unlike air can have malfunctions or stuff in the way. Flights are of course more of a yes/no depending on weather conditions, rather than the plethora of possible malfunctions, detours and delays that can happen with trains as you go. But yeah. Traveling by train in a place as dense as Ruhr Metropolitan or the Netherlands is fast and easy. So flight prices have to compete and find their niche. In the USA, that's often not even close to an option. A train ride from New York to LA, let alone a bus trip, that's almost unthinkable. And with the population centers as spaced out as they are, with terrible rail connections -if any- you see a flight monopoly and airlines that treat you like garbage.

I live in south west England and around the year 2000 we used to be able to go fly to Barcelona watch football and have a few beers and get back for around £50-60 where as watching premier league Arsenal used to cost a bit more crazy

I'm going to Japan next month and the cheapest ticket I found to get there and back was around £80 though it had a connection in Hong Kong and in total lasted 18 hours. I chose to upgrade to direct in premium economy with a bigger airline but still, it was less than double the price with lots of extra perks.

In the Philippines, we also have this 1 Peso fare around 55 USD but this is very rare and taxes are not included.

Actual flight costs are pretty cheap, but what gets you is things like Checked in luggage, seat selection, buy on board shop etc.

Yup, just looking at a March tickets from UK to my home country Bulgaria, 20-25 euro each way, it's about 3000 km and 3 hours flight.... I traveled it last May with car, two and a half days, and about 500-600 euro each way, so ...

Flew EasyJet to from London UK to Naples Italy last spring for $46.00, decided to add a few days in Rome and forfeit the return leg of the journey from Naples. Booked single flight back from Rome to London for $25.00 and thought it was a bargain. Also booked return flight from London to Sharm El Sheik, Egypt with Easyjet for $120.00. total bargain. If you are in the right place at the right time, you can bag astonishing bargains.

Lol the only issue with Ryanair is you might board a plane in Manchester to fly to Dublin but wake up in Paris 😂

The really cheap flights often make you board at some small airport in the middle of nowhere and end up at another airport in the middle of nowhere ' with you standing somewhere 70 km from your ultimate destination at 4 in the morning without any mode of transport in sight😅But if you have time, and do some online checking you can visit some major European cities on a low budget.

Talking about AirAsia in Malaysia, you can get fare as low as MYR 10, which is equivalent to USD 4.

I want to go to London end of March frm Germany for a few days and I can't find any reasonable options under 200 euro, and that's Stansted which is very, very far outside of London. I believe the only way to find cheap options is if you really make your entire plans around the date when a good price is available. During past year or so I often wanted to do a trip and was not able because of the high prices. You can't justify a weekend city visit that costs 5-600 euro, well, I can't at least. Prices do kill mobility. Prices were indeed low before covid, and maybe are in some places, that aren't Germany right now.

I live about 40km from Pisa where there is an airport with a lot european flights (ryanair, easyjet...) and for me it is much cheaper to go to any European city than to go, for example, to Rome (400km away from me) or most Italian cities

The most important thing in case of taking a plane or bus is TIME Factor. When I'm not in a hurry i would take the bus or train. It would be cheaper and i can sleep the whole night while traveling. Next thing against taking a plane - the same... Time factor - sorry but it makes no sense when i need to be at the airport 2 hours earlier from take off and i have to wait the next hour to get my case after i land... I traveled a lot... For example Szczecin/Stettin in Poland up and back to Bad Reichenhall - about 900 Km/ 560 Miles. It was easy to go there and back - each Time in 6 Hours, with a car. Edith: if I calculate - an hour drive to the airport, then 2 hours pass because of check-in and security checks... 2 hour flight, landed... an hour until I got out of the airport and then got a rental vehicle and got to the destination drive... Next 2 hours to reach the destination.... I Love the Autobahn. 💗☝️💪😘 The point is - USA is a huge "country" - check your car consumption and compare it to a flight ticket. Travel 2.000 Miles aren't cheap. I strongly suspect - traveling by plane would be much cheaper than by car, not to mention saving time. Anything under 600 miles would be faster and cheaper if more than one person needs to be transported.

When Ryanair started in Germany the got offers for 1 Cent (0,01 €). I was still in school back then, so that fare came in very handy. I remember in december 2002 I spent every single weekend in Italy.... =)

My mmmom and her partner once took a 20 euro flight from Seville to Tolouse, wich is about half of the bus price from Seville to Madrid but twice the distance in a quarter of the time

Air fares in Australia were getting cheaper until covid, plus there is pretty much only one low cost carrier across Australia. Think there's another one coming up in covering the east coast, so flights can vary from $250 to $500 depending on destination. Can't see prices coming down anytime soon

i used Rynair from Barcelona to Rome ,most uncomfortable flight i ever had . The seat was so hard and narrow , it felt like one of those seats in stadiums that have arm rest on the sides. I didnt mind it much as it was only a 1 hr flight but if it was longer i could not take it .

One Euro? Try 1cent. I went to London from my home in Barcelona and spend 14.99 to get there and 1c for the return. Those 15 Euros included all charges. However, this includes carry on. If you dare to take a suitcase, you can easily look a 50-80 Euro surcharge in the eye. These cheap airlines run also mail and packet services, that's how they actually make money. The cargo hold is more expensive then the seats. But for long distance trains (high speed 200mph here in Spain) are preferred. They go center to center and not to airports far away from cities.

I still pay about €100 / €150 for a 3 hour flight, same price as a couple of years ago. There's more than Rayan air, for example Wizz air and Transavia, they are all cheap. In Amsterdam (Schiphol) the train station is under the airport. Recommend you come by the train in the Netherlands. The infrastructure is perfect there. The Flix busses are cheap but it will take you a very long time until you arrive. You'll get stops everywhere. So, for me isn't that a option. Trains are fully availible in almost every town and city. At least here in the Netherlands.

The common price you pay is usually in the area of 20-60 eur for short and medium flights. The competition with high speed rail is big for especially short flights. So far the prices have not creeped up compared to 2021 but teh political pressure is there to even sometimes completely dissallow short flights. Another interesting thing is that a lot of european airports have high speed rail connection - like a HSR train station in the airport. The US also claims to be the center of "competition" but i think europe is more competitive than the US in a lot of areas. So - when Do you travel to europe to find out?

It's not expensive to fly during the week...On the weekend, it's a different story. But I admit that taking the car is really nice. There is so much beautiful, incredible landscape and so much different culture and architecture.

I noticed German company Flixbus - the green bus in your video - is operating on the US East coast as well.

Last week I finally managed to get and actually use one of those “poster airfares” by Ryanair and flew from London to Milan for 12 Euros, or 13 US Dollars. It took off right on time and arrived early, with a flight time of 1h17min that I never managed to get (usually the flight time is about 1h30min)

You can get from the UK to anywhere in Europe for £50 if you're willing to be a bit flexible. The more popular routes (e.g. UK - Spain) you can normally get for £10 or £15.

I use to travel from Belgium to sweden for 11 euros returnflight. The train to the station was 25 euros return ticket.