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November 6, 2009

Cheap flights to Denmark - Copenhagen v. Billund?

I’m flying to Billund next week, courtesy of those kind folks at Ryanair, who sold me a one-way flight to Billund from Birmingham for just 1p. There’s various places in Denmark, Sweden and Finland that I want to visit, and I’ll be flying back from Helsinki to Gatwick with easyJet.

A few weeks ago, my brother went to a wedding in Malmo, Sweden, which is just across the fantastic Oresund bridge from Copenhagen. He flew with SAS direct from Birmingham to Copenhagen, and was waxing lyrical about the service. That’s all well and good, but in these price conscious times, it isn’t surprising to find so many people grabbing the cheap flights with Ryanair.

Now I know that everyone’s motivations for travel are different, but if you wanted to visit three of Denmark top attractions, then you might well start in Billund, which is home to Legoland, before heading on to Copenhagen via Odense, which is the birthplace of author Hans Christian Andersen.

Personally, I’m off to immerse myself in Danish urban design, so Odense’s network of urban parks will be the highlight of my trip, but say you are visiting various different places in Denmark, and you have a choice between flying with Ryanair to Billund (flights available from London Stansted, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Dublin) or with another airline to Copenhagen (wider choice of different departure airports).

Which would you do?

November 3, 2009

Where the hell is Ornskoldsvik?

Filed under: Ryanair, Uncategorized — Tags: , , — ja @ 3:27 pm

I like to consider myself at least reasonably geographically aware, but one of the advertisers on this website has gone for an all out push on cheap flights to Ornskoldsvik. Where, I here you ask - well, I was thinking exactly the same, and no, for once, this isn’t the latest obscure Ryanair destination.

It turns out that Ornskoldsvik, population 29,000 according to Wikipedia, is on the eastern coast of Sweden, about half way between Stockholm and the border with Finland. Flights to Stockholm are provided courtesy of Hoga Kusten Flyg - but unsurprisingly, there are no flights to Ornskoldsvik from the UK - yet!

I wonder if somewhere like Ornskoldsvik ever gets on Ryanair’s radar - technically, it looks like the runway, at 2,014 metres, is long enough to handle their Boeing 737-800 aircraft, and the airport even offers charter flights to Turkey during the summer season.

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