What can you buy for 5c nowadays?
I've got the bargain of the century - yesterday, while pondering the quickest and cheapest way to get from Budapest to Dubrovnik (two days travel by bus or train) I checked out a few airline websites and found one called SkyEurope.
I ended up booking a flight from Bratislava (capital of Slovakia and about three hours by train from Budapest) to Dubrovnik (about 600km as the crow flys) for the grand total of 1 Slovak Crown - a fraction over 5 cents New Zealand. With taxes and airport charges the total cost is about NZ$30.
And I can't see the hooks - there is a 20Kg baggage allowance and the seat is decribed as 'confirmed'. I know the seating is on a first onboard, best seated basis but I'm travelling by myself so any seat will do. All the planes are modern 737 jets.
Now I am wondering why a flight from Wellington to Christchurch costs $100 each way.
I ended up booking a flight from Bratislava (capital of Slovakia and about three hours by train from Budapest) to Dubrovnik (about 600km as the crow flys) for the grand total of 1 Slovak Crown - a fraction over 5 cents New Zealand. With taxes and airport charges the total cost is about NZ$30.
And I can't see the hooks - there is a 20Kg baggage allowance and the seat is decribed as 'confirmed'. I know the seating is on a first onboard, best seated basis but I'm travelling by myself so any seat will do. All the planes are modern 737 jets.
Now I am wondering why a flight from Wellington to Christchurch costs $100 each way.
posted by Michael at
11:01 AM
4 Comments:
I have flown SkyEurope to Hungary. It is a good, fast and reliable airline. Good spotting!
When I flew to Budapest from London last year it cost me exactly 20 pounds.
Bargain!
By
Heine, at 3:07 AM
I looked at flying Malev from Budapest and it was $690 one-way. With the train fare it will be about $120 from Budapest.
It seemed to me that most of the European Airlines are horrendeously over-priced. I looked at going the another way from Vienna and that was $800 with Austrian Airlines.
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Michael, at 11:54 AM
Indeed. I have found it to be a lottery myself. German Wings, SkyEurope are two I like.
Even now and then I get great bargains from BA. I have never paid more than £100 return for any flight from London to the continent.
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Heine, at 6:17 AM
Wow. A find for sure. You folks should try flying in Canada... everything is so damn far away from everything else, and bored-with-competing domestic airlines plus brutal airport taxes make travelling expensive. There's always the bus... but I can't even get downtown for less than CDN$2.25
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Canadian, at 4:48 PM
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