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Bad Fare: Ryanair Goes Literary

Jaunted Bad Fare: Stansted--Vitoria-Gasteiz, $2.82 RT

This week's bad fare is a bit of a shout out to one of our favorite writers, Anthony Lane. He's one of the New Yorker's film critics--we hazily remember that he may have liked one of the films that he reviewed in the late 90s, but there hasn't been much since then--and this week, for the magazine's Journeys Issue, he tackles low-cost Irish carrier Ryanair.

To prove his point, Lane pretty much choses a destination at random; one that he has not heard of, and then tries to figure out where, exactly, he has arrived. His choice? Vitoria Gasteiz, in the Basque region of Spain. If you want to recreate his trip, it'll run you $2.82 before taxes if you book by tomorrow and travel anytime before the end of October, save for a chunk of summer blackout dates.

However, do you really want to be jammed on a Ryanair flight with a bunch of other people who are enamored of Anthony Lane? It's one thing to consider having such a insouciantly cantankerous seatmate such as he, but being stuck with a tweedy Lane-wannabe sounds even worse. So take that cheap flight to Spain, but do so at your own risk. Or at least bring some headphones.

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