Cheapest ever flight seen in Europe?

[Craig2601]

Was wondering the other day what the cheapest flight seen in Europe has been/ that you have taken. I once seen a Ryanair flight for 3€ from Hamburg to Berlin, but sadly didn’t really suit my dates The cheapest I’ve ever taken was a £8 flight from Stansted to Stockholm Vasteras which was alright!

 

[edwin_m]

I think I actually managed to get Ryanair Birmingham-Dublin for about £2.50 when I had a series of business trips that I could book for well in advance.

 

[Kingsbury Jn.]

I think I actually managed to get a fligRyanair Birmingham-Dublin for about £2.50 when I had a series of business trips that I could book for well in advance.

My late wife and I had 2 tickets at €0 each to go from Birmingham to Dublin in Nov. 2002. It still cost us €46, after all of the taxes were added!

 

[Busaholic]

My shop neighbours travelled from Newquay to somewhere in Spain, then later from Alicante to Gatwick, and then Gatwick back to Newquay, for a grand total of £82 each. This was in August/September, on single tickets, the Spain to Gatwick bit costing them £12 apiece: they have no connection with the travel industry, incidentally!

 

[radamfi]

Ryanair had many 1p flights in the heyday of silly fares.

 

[Kite159]

Ryanair had many 1p flights in the heyday of silly fares.

Back in the days where the only way to avoid card payment charges on Ryanair was by using a Ryanair prepaid card

 

[gazthomas]

I once (2007) had a return from London Luton to Dublin with Ryanair for 6 people for 12p, 1p per person each way including all taxes and other charges including card charges. I still have the email (attached). Can this be beaten?

 

[Craig2601]

I once (2007) had a return from London Luton to Dublin with Ryanair for 6 people for 12p, 1p per person each way including all taxes and other charges including card charges. I still have the email (attached). Can this be beaten?

Wow! And I though £2 was good...

 

[gazthomas]

Wow! And I though £2 was good...

I've kept this email as to me it was legendary. Those were the days of silly Ryanair prices! I remember looking the day before it was about £300 for the same trip then this offer appeared the next day. We were flabbergasted, especially 4 of our party who were from the USA and hadn't seen anything so low before!

 

[joncombe]

Not as cheap as some here, but I did Stansted to Toulouse for £9.99 each way (£19.98 return) last year (that was all, there were no additional taxes or charges to pay). Certainly on the leg from the UK, that doesn't even cover the taxes so Ryanair certainly do still offer some "loss leader" tickets below the cost price albeit possibly not at 1p any more.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

In the days when Bond Helicopters had the British Grand Prix contract with Silverstone, on the Saturday before race day, the helicopters would fly in convoy of seven or eight aircraft at 10 minutes headway from Dyce to Yardley Gobion ( a village near Silverstone where a field was rented as a helicopter shuttle base ) and as they wished to use the arrival at Yardley Gobion to test the procedures at that end, they would make the seats available on the southbound positioning flight for free.

Of course one had to make one's own arrangements to get to and pay to travel to Dyce in the first place, but the helicopter element was 100% free.

The final year this was done was 2000. From 1996 until then, I had five such free flights, all in SuperPuma aircraft ( G-PUMA, G-PUMB, G-PUMG G-PUMH and G-PUML before anyone asks ).

OK, it's domestic rather than international Europe, but it's still within Europe...

 

[AlterEgo]

I once (2007) had a return from London Luton to Dublin with Ryanair for 6 people for 12p, 1p per person each way including all taxes and other charges including card charges. I still have the email (attached). Can this be beaten?

Yes, I secured flights on Level for one euro cent earlier this year, which is cheaper than a penny.

 

[Jamesrob637]

Yes, I secured flights on Level for one euro cent earlier this year, which is cheaper than a penny.

How'd you manage that in 2018?!

 

[Jamesrob637]

Not as cheap as some here, but I did Stansted to Toulouse for £9.99 each way (£19.98 return) last year (that was all, there were no additional taxes or charges to pay). Certainly on the leg from the UK, that doesn't even cover the taxes so Ryanair certainly do still offer some "loss leader" tickets below the cost price albeit possibly not at 1p any more.

Done that a few times; as you say the rate doesn't even cover (many of) the overseas taxes let alone the UK tax!

 

[Bletchleyite]

Ryanair have done 99p including tax before (basically a loss leader) though not for years. That's the cheapest I ever saw.

 

[AlterEgo]

How'd you manage that in 2018?!

It was a promo fare after they opened their short haul base in Vienna.

 

[scrapy]

I've had Ryanair Liverpool to Dublin for 1p each way including tax. Had to get an Electron card to pay for it as that was their only free payment option at the time.

 

[dubscottie]

I once (2007) had a return from London Luton to Dublin with Ryanair for 6 people for 12p, 1p per person each way including all taxes and other charges including card charges. I still have the email (attached). Can this be beaten?

I still have a Dundee to Leuchars train ticket that cost the grand total of 5p from the early 2000's. (2003/4 IIRC)

You tend to keep this sort of thing because its to ridiculous too be true!

 

[MichaelAMW]

Yes, I secured flights on Level for one euro cent earlier this year, which is cheaper than a penny.

I Win with my 1 euro cent Ryanair Berlin to East Midlands, because it was about 10 years ago when a euro cent was worth less...

 

[chubs]

EUJet £1 each way Manston - Schiphol. Was about £30 with taxes. More crew than customers on the out leg, curiously return was almost full.

I was not surprised when it all went horribly wrong for them.

 

[Howardh]

I suppose it's possible these days that if your flight's delayed and you get compensation, that may mean they have paid you to fly! Asks; is the compensation up to the cost of the ticket or is it much more?

 

[gingerheid]

FlyBe Norwich - Dublin; actually free.

The same weekend as this happened:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7321306.stm

 

[gazthomas]

FlyBe Norwich - Dublin; actually free.

The same weekend as this happened:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7321306.stm

Awesome

 

[chubs]

FlyBe Norwich - Dublin; actually free.

The same weekend as this happened:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7321306.stm

I miss FlyBe from Norwich. They were building up quite a few routes at that point, and finally challenging KLM on the Schiphol route from charging outrageous fares.

The airport took a real blow thanks to the pig headed airport management of the time, which it still hasn't recovered from. They could have avoided the whole actors bit and given them a bit longer to grow and everyone would have benefited.

 

[AlterEgo]

I suppose it's possible these days that if your flight's delayed and you get compensation, that may mean they have paid you to fly! Asks; is the compensation up to the cost of the ticket or is it much more?

It is a fixed sum depending on the circumstances; no relation to ticket cost.

 

[gingerheid]

I miss FlyBe from Norwich. They were building up quite a few routes at that point, and finally challenging KLM on the Schiphol route from charging outrageous fares.

The airport took a real blow thanks to the pig headed airport management of the time, which it still hasn't recovered from. They could have avoided the whole actors bit and given them a bit longer to grow and everyone would have benefited.

Yes. They're left looking a bit daft now. Would have been better to have kept them and kept them happy. Doing press releases that actively seek bad publicity for your customer is outrageous even if you have fallen out with them. How would any other airline ever want to go there after they did that?

 

[185143]

I flew from Manchester to Southend and back for free in December thanks to winning a competition in the Manchester Evening News.

Didn't cost me a penny, apart from a couple of drinks in each terminal!

 

[Kite159]

I flew from Manchester to Southend and back for free in December thanks to winning a competition in the Manchester Evening News.

Didn't cost me a penny, apart from a couple of drinks in each terminal!

Winning a competition is different, otherwise you might some people popping up to say they once won a competition of a free holiday to *insert country here* with free flights.

 

[LordCreed]

Not the cheapest by some way, but you can fly BA for £9 between Luxembourg and London Heathrow. I imagine this is BAs cheapest non domestic flight.

 

[atillathehunn]

Not including all these free give away flights and very low ticket component of the bill, I've found shockingly cheap tickets recently between: Manchester and Charleroi - €6; Brussels and Berlin - €9 and Ciampino (Rome) to Charleroi - €12. These were before the stupid charges on hand luggage, though. In each case, the cost of transfers at either end are magnitudes of 3 or 4 times the ticket including tax cost.

Edit: should add, didn't actually take these. While originally cheap, the new fee in some cases doubles the ticket price. For only a few € more you can go from a more convenient airport and at a better time.