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  • @busterrabbit
    @busterrabbit 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +133

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

    • @Mat-eq8mk
      @Mat-eq8mk 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      More per day than your flight.

    • @huskytail
      @huskytail 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      In Europe you also have a lot of options to go to the airports, like mentioned in the video. I often travel without using the car. If you go by car, yes, then what you say becomes truer, though you can always park on the furthest parkings where the price is convenient.

    • @Blackadder75
      @Blackadder75 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@huskytail I usually drive to a random village next to the airport, park for free at a Park&Ride spot and take the bus or light rail (max 20 minutes) to the airport. But this only works if you don;t have a lot of luggage, which I never have

    • @nico_pen
      @nico_pen 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I get the train....£1.90, 7 minutes

    • @AndresUffert2
      @AndresUffert2 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      it was,
      i got Tallinn to Berlin and back for 19.99 euro promo price and parking was 24 euro :D

  • @johnallsopp6324
    @johnallsopp6324 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +167

    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.

    • @angiewegenerdjmetalamazon4468
      @angiewegenerdjmetalamazon4468 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Same goes for long distance buses.

    • @lixon1501
      @lixon1501 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      And yeah, while the option is there for coaches, for the cheaper price you accept that the 1 hour plane flight, might take 12-15 hours on bus. But you may travel half the price.

    • @angiewegenerdjmetalamazon4468
      @angiewegenerdjmetalamazon4468 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@lixon1501 Often bus is the same price or maybe even more expensive than a flight, and it takes much longer. People often take the bus just because they want to travel mor environmentally friendly. Same goes for trains. Trains are often a good option, but much, much more expensive and also take longer than flights.

    • @Ugo98
      @Ugo98 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@angiewegenerdjmetalamazon4468yeah but for short and medium haul they're way more convenient than flying

    • @andrewwaller5913
      @andrewwaller5913 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      True but once you're in the air you're travelling 3 times as fast as the fastest train. From the UK to France or Belgium say is fine, any further than that, flying is quicker and probably cheaper.

  • @railvlogger1439
    @railvlogger1439 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    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.

    • @m3redgt
      @m3redgt 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      oleary is probably the biggest a-hole i've ever encountered.. including bezos and zuckerberg

    • @sonnylatchstring
      @sonnylatchstring 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No, he wanted to be able to use the no board toilet and land in London and not 20 miles north.

  • @hazeman4755
    @hazeman4755 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +158

    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.

    • @matsv201
      @matsv201 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      EU still excludes Norway, Balkan and UK that have a considerable population and for artravle there is really no diffrance flying to balkan than say to Italy

    • @Alexandru0687
      @Alexandru0687 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Actually Europe has 746 million people. Go search it and type Europe's total population

    • @Thorium_Th
      @Thorium_Th 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@Alexandru0687 He just explained it 🙄 Europe ~750M and EU ~550M

    • @johnnyrosenberg9522
      @johnnyrosenberg9522 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@matsv201And Switzerland.

    • @AL5520
      @AL5520 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      First of all, Russia is part of Europe and most Russian citizens live in the European parts of Russia. That said, only tne area and population of Russia that are in part of Europe are counted.

  • @SydneyEV
    @SydneyEV 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

    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.

    • @ivormctin6367
      @ivormctin6367 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And Australians still pay double what Europeans do to travel in the opposite direction

    • @luk4s56
      @luk4s56 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      really? for me cheepest one way flight to australia would be 600euro and to us it would be around 220

    • @vkdrk
      @vkdrk 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I paid 600 (return) to travel from UK to Australia and I regularly pay around around 400 (return) to go to the US. Flights from Europe are definitely affordable which is great for us :)

  • @Brookspirit
    @Brookspirit 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    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.

    • @andrewwaller5913
      @andrewwaller5913 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Indeed, cheap but slow day out. What money you saved you spent in the bar! 😂

    • @jeffgraham6387
      @jeffgraham6387 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      £5 for a car and 4 passengers too......booze cruise!

  • @jimmyryan5880
    @jimmyryan5880 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    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.

    • @narabdela
      @narabdela 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Ryanair haters don't seem to have a clue about the realites of aviation. You get what you pay for, for a flight with an airline with an impeccable safety record, and yet they moan. 🙄

    • @Bungle-UK
      @Bungle-UK 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Exactly….and they don’t seem to understand that these fees are optional. Nobody is forcing you to choose your seat or buy a drink.

  • @Velenor1
    @Velenor1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    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.

    • @hullmees666
      @hullmees666 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Even if they are a bit slower they also offer a better experience overall. Sadly for long distances nothing beats the planes. I dont like them at all.

    • @arturobianco848
      @arturobianco848 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      True

    • @NikoMoraKamu
      @NikoMoraKamu 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      thats it , inside central europe the train is better in my opinion
      most of the capitals are very well connected
      sadly im from Spain and the trains from here to central europe take a lot of more time than the planes

  • @angiewegenerdjmetalamazon4468
    @angiewegenerdjmetalamazon4468 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    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.

    • @janchovanec8624
      @janchovanec8624 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Cheaper on your ticket as an end user.
      Flying is by far the most expansive mode of transportation for the society.
      Airports cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of $, it's nearly all paid by the tax payer, they devalue vast swats of land that is unusable for habitation.
      Therefore, accounting for the loss of value produced by vacant airport land and the immense subsidies that go to the infrastructure, the only fast and economical mode of transportation is fast trains if you account for the total cost to the society and not what the ticket costs alone.
      Similar logic goes to commuting 20m by car, vs 40m on a bicycle. You might think one saves himself some time and therefore value, however, one still needs to do his, or hers cardio and bicycle does that natively at nearly no cost, whereas cars are mighty expensive to the society and unhealthy.
      Yes, we should strive for liberty and allow people to have options to pick from, however, the cost need to be accurately accounted for. I for one don't want to have 15% of every major city to be allocated to the airfield alone. Fly tickets do not accurately represent the total cos to the society.

    • @vapour80
      @vapour80 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@janchovanec8624 20m by car, 40m by bicycle? how many people can do 35MPH on a bicycle for 20m straight? may work for around town travel, less for highway travel

    • @domdru2967
      @domdru2967 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How many people can do 70MPH as an average speed on their commute? If you live and work in a town, just getting to the motorway will take you 5-10min on each side of your journey. (ring roads don't count as most of them are 50MPH) And during rush hour, even on a motorway, you are not doing 70MPH average speed. Most likely you'll have to walk a little more than cycling too as parking for cars is usually further away. Cycling routes are also more direct in most cases. For most people 20min by car turning into 40min or less cycling would be about correct. In my commute between two nearby towns, driving takes 17-20min (assuming little traffic), cycling takes 30-35min.
      A lot of people forget about those extra steps, like stopping for red lights or slowing down in traffic, when counting trip duration.

    • @vapour80
      @vapour80 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i have 30mph for roughly 200 meters, 40mph for a 100 meters then 50mph for a mile until i hit a 70mph A road. and there is no shorter/direct route that a bike could use due to the roads running along farmers fields.going through town leads to a longer winding road that meets the outer direct road due to the fields anyways. best i've done (when i was much younger) was 50 mins on bike, in a car 15/20mins average now days.Best being 8 mins while sticking to speed limits, just got lucky with traffic and light changes

    • @domdru2967
      @domdru2967 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In that case, you are definitely on a fast side. In 2022 UK average commute distance was 19.5mi and duration 27min which is roughly 40mph average speed... source: Transport Statistics Great Britain: 2022 Domestic Travel (gov.uk)

  • @PanikinManikin
    @PanikinManikin 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    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

    • @dominika3762
      @dominika3762 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      How come the trains are so expensive in UK???

  • @KimForsberg
    @KimForsberg 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

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

  • @TheXshot
    @TheXshot 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    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.

    • @MarkW_
      @MarkW_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Indeed, six years or so ago I went a half week to Gdansk from the Netherlands with Wizzair. Price of the flights: 0,89 euro one way (managed to find flights flights for that price both ways). The bus trip to the airport in NL was 4 euro each way...

  • @NK-bj8li
    @NK-bj8li 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    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.

    • @andrewwaller5913
      @andrewwaller5913 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Plus maximising numbers of flights with 25 minutes turnaround on Easyjet etc

  • @ChokyoDK
    @ChokyoDK 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    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😅

    • @alestra1021
      @alestra1021 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This is definitely not worth it. Cant imagine Wizzair or Ryanair to be that much more expensive

    • @NotASeriousMoose
      @NotASeriousMoose 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@alestra1021One check in bag and the prices quadruple you know. And with a bus, you can basically transport what you can physically carry, included in the price.
      So worth it for many

    • @alestra1021
      @alestra1021 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@NotASeriousMooseThat's true but there are many ways to get your stuff to your destination without the torture of a few days in a flixbus

    • @Kamtar34
      @Kamtar34 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@NotASeriousMoose prices don't "quadruple" with check-in bag. They are usually around 15-30 eur extra. And you have to be very low-income to consider it worth it saving such money in exchange for 2 days of suffering on a bus. In my experience its mostly people who are afraid of flying who take long-distance bus instead of plane.

  • @hanes2
    @hanes2 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @trishloughman5998
    @trishloughman5998 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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.

  • @joojoojeejee6058
    @joojoojeejee6058 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @Real_MisterSir
    @Real_MisterSir 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    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.

    • @NotASeriousMoose
      @NotASeriousMoose 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm not proud of it, but since the prices before covid were so low, I even went for a day excursion to other countries, basically changing countries for a dinner and a walk 😂

  • @skasteve6528
    @skasteve6528 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    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.

    • @CherryGS
      @CherryGS 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They do have some strict rules and try to cut financial corners to stay profitable even with the low prices. But at least they don't seem to skimp when it comes to safety. I can live with a bit of discomfort on a shorthaul flight (< 3 hours) when it saves me a considerate amount of money and i don't have to fear falling out of the sky.

    • @lroke2947
      @lroke2947 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      :: It is often cheaper to fly from Glasgow to London...
      In my experience it has invariably been so. I've always checked for rail tickets but invariably ended up on Easyjet. Admittedly being a visitor in the country I've not looked into more time consuming journeys, just the reasonably fast options.

  • @tihomirrasperic
    @tihomirrasperic 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    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

    • @m3redgt
      @m3redgt 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      and i seriously hope it will go to hell
      because it's not sustainable
      overall service quality and quantity has plumetted inner european.. and quality of life and effective wages have decreased a lot for airline staff since the rise of low cost carriers.. especially ryanair
      people need to realize again that shit costs money and especially flying.. is expensive
      it can only be cheap if you pay poverty wages to your staff and other tricks
      do you really wanna fly on a plane where the pilot and the safety personell (flight attendants) aren't fully focused on their job because they're occupied with thoughts how to pay rent and where to go if they can't or are just too tired to be focused because it's been a 16hr day already which is needed because there just aren't enough of them to properly man the planes to cut down on HR costs even further?

    • @Mat-eq8mk
      @Mat-eq8mk 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@m3redgt There's always someone trying to spoil it for everyone else. Poor people deserve holidays too.

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ⁠@@m3redgtPoverty wages? Ryanair appears to pay less because they don’t have long haul flights. The likes of KLM, Lufthansa, British Airways, Aer France etc. pay big money to older pilots flying long haul wide bodies to the U.S., Japan etc. Without those pilots 200k + salaries, their average salary isn’t dissimilar from Ryanair and the other low cost carriers around Europe.
      Short haul pilots are ferrymen who haven’t found the right asses to kiss to become the captain of an ocean liner.

    • @tihomirrasperic
      @tihomirrasperic 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@m3redgt nobody is stopping you from flying 1st class with Lufthansa or British Airways
      and if neither will want to fly with cheap flights, then the company will go bankrupt

  • @craftyclaira
    @craftyclaira 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    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!

  • @stevo728822
    @stevo728822 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

  • @Scenario8
    @Scenario8 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    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... :-)

    • @TheTerrorHamster
      @TheTerrorHamster 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I have driven from far west Germany (close to Dutch border) to Vienna, 10-12 hours one way in a car, multiple times and I flew to Indonesia multiple times, longest flight 12h.
      I also rather drive 12h instead of flying 12h, even in business class

    • @clivewilliams3661
      @clivewilliams3661 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And when you arrive there are no transfers and you have your own personal transport to use instead of hiring a car with all the risks that that now entails - its a no brainer.

    • @MARKSTRINGFELLOW1
      @MARKSTRINGFELLOW1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Before the internet there used to be places called bucket shops where you could get cheap flights

  • @railvlogger1439
    @railvlogger1439 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    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.

  • @rogerk6180
    @rogerk6180 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @Phiyedough
    @Phiyedough 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    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.

    • @NilZed1
      @NilZed1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      These days, much of that is true on higher priced tickets too. Unless you are flying first class you pay first checked luggage at any price, carry on restrictions are the same regardless of ticket cost, food and drink is only included in the ticket price on flights that cannot somehow be defined as not including a standard meal time. The full service companies saw what consumers tolerate with cheap flights and have adopted the same procedures as far as they can get away with it.

    • @pastvz2781
      @pastvz2781 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You also need to pay for checked in luggage and seats in BA, Lufthansa, Iberia, Air France and any other European airline so what's your point? Also what does Passport Control have to do with Ryanair? It only happens when travelling outside the EU and it's not something that Ryanair can really control lol

    • @Mat-eq8mk
      @Mat-eq8mk 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Boarding passes have been digital for years.

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pastvz2781Apparently Ryanair letting poor people travel around Europe at minimal cost isn’t enough. They should be providing Orient Express levels of luxury whilst doing so.
      Sometimes I wonder if being an Irish company encourages some people, we’ll call them “English” for argument’s sake, to stick the boot in at every opportunity. The level of opprobrium for an airline with an impeccable safety record, who’ll fly you to Paris for the price of a Happy Meal, is a little suspicious.

    • @frankymr2
      @frankymr2 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and sometimes they are not as comfortable, 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 .

  • @seanthiar
    @seanthiar 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @grimby63
    @grimby63 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

  • @bososmark
    @bososmark 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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 😅

  • @juanmontull8550
    @juanmontull8550 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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!

  • @biancawichard4057
    @biancawichard4057 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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

  • @germanmosca
    @germanmosca 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    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. :)

    • @Blackadder75
      @Blackadder75 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yeah, this is why you always have to use a VPN with a new random IP adres to look for flights. (maybe even research which country code you should use)
      (or just use the phone of a family member who never books flights)

  • @timoliver8940
    @timoliver8940 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The prices you saw on that video are the headline prices - it’s extremely difficult to get a flight for that price. If you want to check in any luggage -extra charge, you want to print out a ticket at the airport - extra charge, you want to have a coffee on the plane - take out a mortgage on your house. The biggest issue with Ryan Air is many of the airports that they use costs you double or triple the cost of you flight to get to the destination that you thought you were going to but ended a couple of hours onward travel to get to.
    I used to fly EasyJet from Glasgow or Edinburgh to London Luton for £25 return, for a 2 hour meeting or lunch with friends in London but the cost of cost of airport car parking for the day and to get into and back out of London cost 3X or 4X more than the flights! The other problem was these carriers often didn’t have the reliablity of the big “national” carriers, missed meetings despite having been on a 0730 flight that should have had me in central London before lunch but a technical issue meant my flight didn’t take off and then the passengers had to wait for vacant seats on later flights before they could travel. I returned to using BA domestic flights that were not a lot more expensive but reliablity was always way way better and when there was a problem with a BA flight I would be moved across the departure lounge to fly on a less popular /busy flight to one of the alternative London airports and lost very little time but crucially got to my meetings in The City.

  • @Frahamen
    @Frahamen 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    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.

    • @umeshurocks
      @umeshurocks 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      this is because:
      1- very cheap airport fees (without ryanair those airports have no business)
      2- local public tourism entities subsidize ryanair flights for them to bring tourists to these not as popular regions

    • @andrewwaller5913
      @andrewwaller5913 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe but Easyjet will fly you to many major airports, I went to Paris Charles de Gaulle last year, easy to get to centre of Paris for about £80 return.

    • @lroke2947
      @lroke2947 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lucky me. I live in a country where we don't really have airports in the middle of nowhere. As a down side, Ryanair doesn't really provide any destinations this season I'd be interested in. I will take flight to Stansted in spring, but that's just a personal whim -- my normal trips to London require arriving much earlier and departing later in the day.

    • @iaing9028
      @iaing9028 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@umeshurocks, not everybody needs to go to the big cities, when we go skiing we fly to Milan Bergamo with Ryanair, it’s quite a long way to Milan but very handy for the mountains.

  • @Dqtube
    @Dqtube 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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.

  • @Bungle-UK
    @Bungle-UK 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @whiskeysk
    @whiskeysk 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    those $10 fares are the reason why it is cheaper for the Brits to go berserk drinking over the weekend in Prague or Bratislava than if they stayed drinking in the UK...

  • @user-lv6rn9cf8m
    @user-lv6rn9cf8m 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    $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.

  • @bastian6625
    @bastian6625 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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.

  • @Crimerenegade
    @Crimerenegade 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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)

    • @LeSarthois
      @LeSarthois 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The current Acela trains are based on the French TGV with tilting technology added.
      The next generation (should have been on the rail in 2019, may arrive this year) are indeed more based on the Pendolino technology, with a current TGV body atop of it (very roughly.)

    • @Crimerenegade
      @Crimerenegade 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LeSarthois Yes, the new Avelia Liberty (i did not specify this but i ment this one - aka new one, not the old one) is in fact mix of TGV and Pendolino as Alstom the manufacturer currently owns rights to both of them. From what i understand mechanically it has more common with Pendolino than TGV (which is not strange as the Pendolino is more internationally successful than TGV - as far as sold trains metric goes)

    • @LeSarthois
      @LeSarthois 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Crimerenegade Honestly I won't play the national pride, a Pendolino train make more sense for the US grid than a TGV.
      The TGV was a French "Grand projet" and it included building specially dedicaced high speed tracks for it. In fact one of the TGV's strenght is his capacity to climb steep inclines (compared to other high speed trains) not to navigate fast on twisting old tracks.
      The Pendolino is much, much more adapted to the task than the TGV.

    • @IWrocker
      @IWrocker  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s cool 🎉 I had no idea. Thanks for the details 😎

  • @Dive1962
    @Dive1962 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

  • @gerbentvandeveen
    @gerbentvandeveen 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @grzegorzach3891
    @grzegorzach3891 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @germankitty
    @germankitty 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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!

  • @emidiobarbeira6089
    @emidiobarbeira6089 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @aphextwin5712
    @aphextwin5712 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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).

    • @Blackadder75
      @Blackadder75 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I just did Eindhoven - Sevilla. with Ryanair. it's landing, 10 minutes to drop people off, quick quick quick clean a bit, load up, fuel, safety check, boarding starts already while this is ongoing , (which is why you have to wait AGAIN these days outside after getting past the final boarding gate) , get people in, final checks and go. All in about an hour tops. SO for 5 flights of 2,5 hours each, you need 5 x 2,5 = 12,5 + 4x1 = 16,5 hours. If you start at 07:00 , you can end around midnight. (most don;t fly during the night)
      I was OUTSIDE the airport 8 minutes after landing this time, a new record for me. (no baggage and I was seated right next to the door, and was out the plane in 4 minutes , with a 4 minute walk to the exit.

  • @johnhendriks4085
    @johnhendriks4085 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

    • @Blackadder75
      @Blackadder75 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      but not in school holidays , then it's more close to 450 , or triple that price. I work in education now, YAY! 12 weeks of paid holidays! OUCH! always paying premium for economy class.

  • @blewanthanaveris6901
    @blewanthanaveris6901 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @ElCuervodeSanlo
    @ElCuervodeSanlo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @Chaos2Go
    @Chaos2Go 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @mikrosixtysix
    @mikrosixtysix 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @davidfradgley751
    @davidfradgley751 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @pavelmacek282
    @pavelmacek282 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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 🤷‍♂️🤣

  • @sushi777300
    @sushi777300 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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

    • @trishloughman5998
      @trishloughman5998 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If I took a notion to fly somewhere next Monday, right now I can get from Dublin to Amsterdam for €16.19; Paris (Beauvais) €14.99; Brussels €17.70; or London (Stansted or Gatwick) €14.99.

  • @kentagent6343
    @kentagent6343 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @Loki1815
    @Loki1815 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @tonycasey3183
    @tonycasey3183 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @MaoZhu-j6q
    @MaoZhu-j6q หลายเดือนก่อน

    When I was working in Ireland and Living in England, I could afford to fly home every weekend. I used to book my flights months in advance at 10 euros a flight. I know a lot of people complain about Ryanair, but doing what I have done, what is there to complain about. They were amazing. The other factor that really makes transport in Europe so different is the fact that Europe gets weeks and weeks of paid vacation. Paid holidays equal lots of travelling. Europe even has airlines that specialise in nothing but holiday transport.

  • @RunawayTrain2502
    @RunawayTrain2502 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @janhanchenmichelsen2627
    @janhanchenmichelsen2627 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @eap8317
    @eap8317 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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...

  • @davidmarshall6616
    @davidmarshall6616 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @foyorama
    @foyorama 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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

  • @ohauss
    @ohauss 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The HSR connection between Hamburg and Berlin completely killed flight connections between those cities. City center to city center connection, no restrictions on luggage, and an on-board restaurant... and by the time you're at the airport, gone through security, boarded and the plane has hauled itself into the air, your train is already halfway to Berlin...

  • @GnosticAtheist
    @GnosticAtheist 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @philbaker4155
    @philbaker4155 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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

  • @portugalgamermanel3404
    @portugalgamermanel3404 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

  • @chrisspain
    @chrisspain 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @stevencouwels4569
    @stevencouwels4569 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @marflitts
    @marflitts 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @mikaku
    @mikaku 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've worked more than 10 years for easyJet. This video is missing one of the main, and probably most important reason why some flights are 1€ per seat.
    The reason is because your seat is already paid. Ryanair for example would go to Costa Brava´s tourism council in Spain and tell them "Hey, next summer season Im bringing 20 milion tourists to you, but only if you pay 90% of the ticket". And obviously, the Tourism Council say yes, because eventhough they are paying around 150€ per tourist, they know the tourist will spend 10 times the same amount here.
    So, its your destination that is paying your ticket. Ryanair or easyJet job now is to FILL these planes (because if not, they would incur in agreement penalties) and try to squeeze the free passenger with baggage fees and other in-flight options.

  • @bettinakluge4215
    @bettinakluge4215 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @Oldboymusik
    @Oldboymusik 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @huskytail
    @huskytail 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @licomelano8482
    @licomelano8482 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @gediminaspuskorius1195
    @gediminaspuskorius1195 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @WasephWastar
    @WasephWastar 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @KarsonNow
    @KarsonNow 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @mariokrings
    @mariokrings 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.... =)

  • @yolson2376
    @yolson2376 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @Radogost1981
    @Radogost1981 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @SriGutta
    @SriGutta 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There is another significant factor not mentioned here. Local governments pay these low cost airlines to fly to the smaller towns. The passenger volume drives their way economy and airlines get paid a significant fee. This is a key reason why you will use flights to destinations not served by mainstream carriers. On these routes in particular, ticket sales is secondary income and airlines are more interested in drawing more passengers rather than maximising ticket revenue.

  • @animelike4826
    @animelike4826 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There were flights in the 9 € price range, but these are mostly gone and in an around 1-2 hours flight range to big cities like London, Oslo, Paris, etc. 1€-flights were so rare that I've never seen one and I think it's a joke. I've been on airplanes since I was 3 weeks old. And I'm 25.

  • @carlo_berruti
    @carlo_berruti 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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)

  • @kevinsrennoer7553
    @kevinsrennoer7553 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In 1999 I bought a 5 stop roundtrip in the US. It cost around 2000 $.

  • @ikkedus6255
    @ikkedus6255 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @stevencouwels4569
    @stevencouwels4569 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Even though the video is nearly 3 years old, the situation is still pretty much the same. Only the load factor and market recovery has been faster than predicted, and is now back to pre-pandemic levels, or higher, while low cost airline fares are still relatively cheap. Rail and driving around Europe is generally more expensive than flying.

  • @haribo836
    @haribo836 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @mikkorenvall428
    @mikkorenvall428 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What was not said there is that most European Countries have high taxes for Car fuels, which leads that Gas and Diesel prices are double and in some Countries triple the price compared of fuels in the US.

  • @frankymr2
    @frankymr2 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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 .

  • @CarlosLopez58
    @CarlosLopez58 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    From Canary Islands to Madrid, it is more expensive to go from the Madrid airport in a taxi to the center of Madrid, than to fly there from 1,500 kilometers.

  • @blewanthanaveris6901
    @blewanthanaveris6901 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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

  • @roberttirpak5447
    @roberttirpak5447 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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€.

  • @shinokurokaze1980
    @shinokurokaze1980 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @Chupacabras222
    @Chupacabras222 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The cost of flight ticket is related to flight distance. 4-hour flight costs 2x more than 2-hour flight. There are much bigger distances in USA than Europe, area of USA is 9.8m km2, area of EU is 4.2m km2. It makes sense to assume that this is the main reason tickets are like double in USA than in EU. Why this was not mentioned in that video is beyond me.

  • @vanesag.9863
    @vanesag.9863 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    After the pandemic those 10 € fares are not common. I remember a pair of years before Covid my parents traveled by plane to visit a pair of monuments in another Spanish city and eat in a restaurant and coming to sleep at home for 30€/each at most. They did it 3 or 4 times a year. It was their bimonthly "date". Now the high speed train is the cheaper option here. The train goes from city center to city center and usually it's a similar time wasting travel than the plane for Spanish inter cities travels. I traveled 6 months ago from Barcelona to Madrid (600 km) in 2.5 hours by speed train for 18 € with more leg space, without baggage restrictions and a bar inside the train. And I remember announcing a new connexion between Barcelona (Spain) and Marselle (France) by train really cheap too.

  • @dillon17
    @dillon17 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @Velenor1
    @Velenor1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    On the population thing: You confused the EU with Europe. EU is about what you thaught, but there are more countries here not in the EU, but they are still obviously connected for travelling.

  • @8tonystark8
    @8tonystark8 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The lowest I booked a RyanAir flight was 0,50€
    Example:
    once I traveled three transportation ways in 2 days. I paid 25€ for a 0,5h ferry ride, 12€ for a 2,5h flight and 10€ for a 1h bus ride

  • @iannewton1719
    @iannewton1719 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My wife has just flown from Spain to the UK for 18€ and return trip in a month on a different carrier is 29€. We live in Spain and she works in the UK so is always flying backwards and forwards.