If you have the opportunity to take time off between the Christmas holidays and the sports holidays, you can find cheap travel deals. We present the cheapest travel destinations, according to Ticket. Another of this week's news is about BRA starting direct flights from Malmö to Split during the summer.
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Where Swedes travelled for Christmas 2019
Gran Canaria was the most popular destination for Christmas 2019, followed by winter favourite Thailand with Bangkok at the forefront. Many Swedish travellers also chose to celebrate Christmas in major cities such as Amsterdam, London and Paris, according to recent statistics from Ticket. Here are the most popular destinations for Christmas 2019:
- Gran Canaria
- Bangkok
- Amsterdam
- Tenerife
- Phuket
Bargain mode: Price drop on travel
January and early February are half the price of travel compared to the Christmas and New Year holidays, reports Ticket. But it's important to watch out - as the school holidays approach, prices rise again. The best prices can be found in destinations with a lot of choice, such as the Canary Islands, Thailand and Egypt. You can get a week's all-inclusive holiday to Egypt for just under £3,000.
X2000 becomes X40 000
A flight between Gothenburg and Stockholm is equivalent to 40,000 train journeys on the same route in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, according to SJ. To draw attention to the difference in environmental impact between the train and the plane, SJ is playing with the name of the popular fast train X 2000 by specially labelling two trainsets with X 40 000. The specially labelled X 2000 trains will run through Sweden during January and February.
FlixBus has doubled passenger numbers
FlixBus transported 2 million passengers to/from/within Sweden in the past year, which is a doubling compared to 2018. In 2019, the company had 62 million passengers globally. FlixBus begins the new decade as the world's leading express bus company with 2,500 destinations in 30 countries, and is now preparing for expansion into South America and Asia.
BRA launches summer flights from Malmö to Split
BRA will fly to Split from Malmöevery Saturday from 30 May to 26 September. "The requests for Croatia as a flight destination has been many so we believe that demand will be high from the start, so it is important to book quickly", says Jim Hofverberg, Head of Communications at BRA. You can now book climate-compensated flights with BRA from around SEK 2400 return.
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Eva / Living like Eva says:
I travelled a lot with Flixbus last year, to Stockholm, Gothenburg, Warsaw and Aarhus. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with them... a poor way of travelling, but on the plus side they are more environmentally friendly than planes and cheaper and more convenient (fewer changes) than trains. My daughter bused with them in Europe for two weeks!
20 January 2020 - 19:03
BP says:
SJ's advertising with X 40 000 is clever, as long as travellers are given an explanation of what the designation stands for and refers to. Otherwise people will think it's a new train.
I have never heard of Flixbus. You always learn something new. To be honest, I'm not too keen on sitting XX hours in a bus.
20 January 2020 - 19:54