Real Low Cost?

Real Low Cost?

Today's question can be pretty obvious but you could not imagine the amount of people that does not pay attention to this detail.

Low cost airlines are playing hard in Europe, and in the research for the best airport taxes makes them find some locations that do not benefit at all the whole cost of the trip.

Placing bases in airports that are pretty distanct from the big cities can involve a cost that sometimes is bigger than thought. Remote places have two problems. The first one is of course the price for itself to reach a distanct location, but the second one and the one tht nobody thinks about is that this places often happen to have only one way to be reached. This means a single transportation company has the monopoly over this route and charges as much as they want provided that after all, you NEED to reach the airport to take your flight.

This is something that has happened recently in Skavsta airport, near Stockholm, were price has been raisen 5 euros from night to morning. Of course, the Flygbussarna monopoly will not change until competence enters the route and I do expect this price to keep growing in the near future if this situation does not change.

After all, then, do not simply rely on the price the airline is showing you in their web-page. Check also how far this airport is from the city you want to go and how much it is the cost implied to get there.

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