Originally Posted by CZBB
Ah, but from Brighton, You'd be silly to travel all the way into [north] into London, back out again [west] and fly from heathrow for 5x the price of any other UK airport.
I would offer the following as being A LOT faster than LHR-FRA (and a heck of a lot cheaper). From Brighton;
Train to Southampton, SOU-FRA on FlyBE
Train to Gatwick, LGW-CGN, train to Frankfurt
The bottom line is there's almost always a better, cheaper deal with the LCCs if you do your homework.
Ok, so when I was in Brighton, SOU-FRA didn't exist. So that's a viable option now and that's great.
But my point still stands. People don't always make the most rational decisions when it comes to air travel. That's why many of the LCCs survive. They get them hooked on the cheap fares. And then they sell bus tickets too. That increases their revenues. At the end of the day, the traveller is usually almost no further ahead in terms of significant savings.