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Mabrian data reveals varying airfare costs to Berlin for UEFA Euro 2024 final, with Spanish and Turkish fans enjoying the lowest rates.
BARCELONA, SPAIN – The anticipation for the UEFA Euro 2024 final is beyond the stadiums: Mabrian, the global travel intelligence platform, part of The Data Appeal company, analyses the evolution of airfares for this major sports event and concludes that Spanish and Turkish fans will have an easier time flying to Berlin, with one-way tickets of around 135 euros.
Airfares from Spain and Turkey will be the most affordable, while British, Portuguese and Swiss would have to pay the highest price increases; in fact, one-way flights from the United Kingdom will reach 572 euros, on average, the day prior to the UEFA Euro 2024 final.
Mabrian focused on the period from July 11 to July 16 to study the variation in air capacity and in average prices (one way, taxes included) of direct flights from the countries that advanced to the quarter-finals (Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Portugal), and domestic connections with other German airports.
Airfares begin to increase precisely starting on July 11, depending on the markets of origin, to skyrocket just 48 hours after.
Prices for flights from Turkish airports to Berlin remain very stable during the period analysed, although they increase by 66% from 11 to 13 July, reaching an average fare of 178 euros (one-way ticket) the day before the final. Turkey is the only Euro finalist country from which flights will be more expensive on very same day of the final, when average one-way ticket prices will reach their highest in the period analysed, 187 euros.
In this narrow 48-hour window, average fares for one-way flights to Berlin from Spain on the day before the final increase an average of 174 euros, 53% more than two days before.
In the middle of the table are France and the Netherlands. French fans will have to pay 130% more for their flights compared to 11 July, when they reach 129 euros (one-way ticket), to hit almost 300 euros on 13 July. Fares will be higher and will increase even further for travel from the Netherlands, by 73%, from 180 to 312 euros in just 48 hours.
British, Portuguese and Swiss are the fans of Euro 2024 who would pay the highest airfares to fly to Berlin. Flights from the United Kingdom to the German capital range from an average fare in this flight of 189 euros on July 11, to 572 euros on July 13, tripling within 48 hours.
Prices to fly from Portugal to Berlin will slightly exceed 290 euros on average during the period analysed. The average price fluctuates marginally until the day before the final, when the one-way fare doubles compared to July 11, reaching 382
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