Ryanairs pricing is highly depending on the phase of the moon or something, my ticket for tomorrow from Stanstead to Skavsta is E60.
/ Mirar
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2004-05-29 03:48: Subject: Re: conference thoughts
Martin Bähr wrote:
essen being so close to paderborn is the main reason why i have held back with that option that long in hope to see if any other alternatives come up.
Another possibility might be Dresden. Uwe Aßmann, who sponsored Pike development at Linköping University, is moving there this summer to start working at Dresden University. (I don't know if he has the time to arrange a conference there so soon after getting there, but it's a possibility.)
linköping is not much better however because for many it is to far away and to expensive to get there.
I doubt it's significantly more expensive getting to Linköping than to any other likely Pike conference location in Europe. (Of course, if you live near Essen, it's probably cheaper to get to Essen, but for everybody else...)
Let's take a quick look at what it costs getting to Linköping from outside of Sweden:
First you take a plane to Stockholm/Skavsta airport. With RyanAir, the ticket costs 6 Euro from London/Stanstead, 10 Euro from Milan, 15 Euro from Brussels/Charleroi or 18 Euro from Frankfurt/Hahn. (Check www.ryanair.com for other places.) Airport fees, "terrorist tax" and some other things will add some 20 Euro to the basic ticket cost. Let's say this comes to about 35 Euro one way, meaning 70 Euro in total, both ways.
Bus from Stockholm/Skavsta airport to Linköping Central Station costs 160 Swedish crowns (about 18 Euro) for a return ticket. The bus ride takes about 90 minutes.
Local bus between Linköping Central Station and the conference site in Linköping (probably Linköping University) is about 1.5 Euro per trip if you pay with a "värdekort", which is a kind of bus-only cash card that you charge with 100 Swedish crowns (about 11 Euro) at a time.
So, something like 70+18+11 = 99 Euro, plus whatever it may cost you to get to an airport where you can go to Stockholm/Skavsta. (Stockholm/Arlanda or Norrköping International are also good airports for continuing to Linköping, but neither RyanAir nor EasyJet appear to have any flights going there, so the plane tickets probably cost more if you pick one of those airports.)
/ Leif Stensson, Lysator