We traveled to Copenhagen for a day – and it was only £45 for airfare

Two wanderlust friends from Liverpool enjoyed a day out in Denmark for a quarter of the price of a train journey to London.

Becky Allison, 26, and Amy Scott, 28, headed out for a day of sun, sightseeing, and great food in Copenhagen.

The international adventure set them back just £45 per person for flights to and from Manchester – compared to the £180 they would each have to shell out for a train ticket from the city to London.

After catching an Easy Jet flight at 07:00, the duo took off after two hours to explore the Scandinavian nation.

Current options on the airline show flights for as little as £32 available for the next few months.

Becky, a college student, captured their trip on camera to show the world her day out abroad.

“It was easy to get to the city center via the airport on a cheap metro, then we just got off at any stop and walked around, enjoying the sights,” she said.

First, she and Amy, a retail manager, went to a church to visit a viewing platform and paid just £7.70 to see 360-degree views of the city.

“Then we went to Nyhavn,” she continued.

‘That’s the main part of Copenhagen, along the way we stop in a few bars to have a drink and then visit some shops.

‘Once in Nyhavn we had some lunch on the waterfront, then spent the rest of the afternoon exploring the town, more shopping and we had a few hours before the flight home, so we found an outdoor bar to sit and people watch. to look .’

They got home around 11 p.m. — and Becky admits that while they had a great time, the experience was logistically bizarre.

“It was a weird sense of time to have visited another country and be back in your own bed the same day,” she added.

First, she and Amy, a retail manager, went to a church to visit a viewing platform and paid just £7.70 to see 360-degree views of the city

The international adventure cost them just £45 per person for flights to and from Manchester

Video from the stunning day out abroad shows the couple dining, taking in beautiful architecture and enjoying scenic views over the city

“But it was such a fun day that we were really glad we did it.

“It was so tiring, it was a lot of walking, early in the morning and then late at night, but it was so worth it.”

Video from the stunning day out abroad shows the pair dining, taking in beautiful architecture and enjoying scenic views of the city.

It comes as the government earlier this week denied claims of a cabinet row over the idea of ​​introducing train ticket prices similar to airlines, which could cut costs on lesser-used routes but hammer regular commuters.

The Treasury and the Department of Transport (DfT) are said to be at odds over an industry-backed idea that would allow for sharp reductions in off-peak tickets and on underused routes.

Earlier this month, official figures revealed total journeys were lower than before the pandemic, with the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) giving a preliminary estimate of 389 million journeys in the UK in the first quarter of 2023 – 88 per cent of the 443 million in the same period in 2019.

According to The Times the Treasury opposes efforts by the DfT to introduce the tickets for fear that it would be offset by raising the already high cost of tickets on popular routes used by regular commuters during peak hours.

Becky, a college student, captured their trip on camera to show the world that she and Amy were going abroad for the day

Two wanderlust friends from Liverpool enjoyed a day out in Denmark for a quarter of the price of a train journey to London

After catching an Easy Jet flight at 07:00, the duo took off after two hours to explore the Scandinavian nation

There were also concerns that it would add to the £11bn cost to taxpayers of already subsidizing the railways.

Sources at the DfT downplayed the idea of ​​a breakup, saying it was going ahead with single-fare trials – where passengers buy two one-way tickets instead of one return.

It is also testing ‘demand-based pricing’ on some LNER services. The Uber-style price hike is an effort to better manage capacity while increasing revenue, the Department for Transport (DfT) said — and it will be rolled out across the country if it proves successful.

Some UK intercity train operators are enjoying a post-pandemic boom, with more passenger journeys now than in 2019, official data shows.

More people traveled on the London North Eastern Railway, East Midlands, Grand Central and Hull Trains in January to March this year than in the same period four years ago.

But operators on London commuter routes are struggling, with Southeastern, Chiltern and South Western Railway all at less than two-thirds of their pre-pandemic levels. This reflects the shift to working from home as fewer people travel to the office