The biting recession has clearly hit travel companies hard. First, the airlines faced problems due to the soaring costs of fuel, eventually leading to the downfall of XL and Zoom and massive losses at British Airways. Then rail and bus giant FirstGroup announced that it is to cut costs by more than £200 million across its businesses in the UK and North America by shedding jobs. However, apparently one of the countrys most debt ridden demographics, students, still aren’t finding it difficult to go on holiday and ride out the recession.
A group of students from Glasgow University have managed to blag their way to Spain for free as part of a Comic Relief challenge. Wouldn’t be the first time a student had blagged something for free.
The quartet attempted to see how far they could get from the Glasgow academic institute in 48 hours without spending a penny. By the end of the 48 hours, the group had managed to scrounge a number of free rides on buses, trains and even flights to sunny Spain where they went one step further and even managed to blag free meals and a stay in a hotel in Alicante.
One of the group, undergraduate Chris Jones commented that they were surprised by their achievement, stating “we exceeded our expectations”. The achievement is now listed in the Guiness Book of Records as the first and only time a student, or group of students, have ever exceeded expectations…
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