Sunday, August 22, 2010

Air travel

It's not eco-friendly, but sometimes you gotta get home to see the fam, or get to the Mediterranean to get some freakin' sunshine. These sites will be useful:

All the regular US sites like Kayak, Orbitz, and Expedia will work.

Cophenhagen (CPH, called "Kastrup") is the closest airport, easily reached by train to/from Lund (running every 20 minutes).

They have a nice web page which includes a flight timetable and route maps by destination city so you can see all flights in/out of the airport, a page where you can look up and buy flights to/from CPH on some budget airlines, and even a free iPhone app (for info on flights and gates when you're at the airport).

The budget airlines that fly out of CPH (and don't seem to be listed on American search engines) include:
Cimber Sterling
OLT

Some helpful Euro search engines for cheap flights:
whichbudget.com
vayama.com
edreams.com

http://www.travelfinder.se/

Finally, some airlines have special pages for Sweden (customer service, mileage plus, etc.) You can buy tickets in your local currency. The page for United is here.


Getting to the airport in Malmö:

Miljö taxi costs 315 SEK 1 way from Lund. 046-30 66 04

Airport bus is 199 SEK roundtrip to Sturup from Lund. http://www.flygbussarna.se/

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