kristiang85
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Personally, going back to my Edinburgh to London example, if I'm given a £15 option on Ryanair or a £50 option on the railway, even with the extras like luggage and airport buses, I'd go for flying without question. It does help Ryanair sell decent coffee on board, not something I've found on the ECML. Put it another way, given the choice of a 737-800 or a 91 and MK4s, I'd jump at the chance to have a 737. No question!
£15 Ryanairs are very hard to get at peak times- e.g. Friday nights / Sun nights, when many are likely to need them.
As an example, this past weekend I did London to Edinburgh.
On the way up, I got the sleeper for £110. This was versus the £60 cheapest flight I could find, plus £15ish to get to Stansted, and then a night in a hotel in Edinburgh (£35), and the tram to get there from the airport (£6). That's £116 for flying, with only tiny handluggage, and not enjoying a nice evening of my own drink and personal space.
On the way back, I got Easyjet to Gatwick - so that's £50 flight (although I had to leave some luggage at my parents' to fit my hand limit), £35 taxi from Gatwick to BSK as it was too late for trains, and if my pareents hadn't dropped me off that would have been another £6 at least for the tram. Thus £91.
The way up, needless to say, was much more pleasant.