Cheap Flights To Oslo Torp

Posted by David Whitley Jul 28, 2007

One of the perennial traumas about cheap flights on budget airlines in Europe is finding that the flight has arrived at an airport that is nowhere near the city it claims to be. Barcelona (Girona), Frankfurt (Hahn) and London (Luton) are pretty good examples of this airline slight of hand. And Oslo (Torp) is another.

Transport from Oslo (Torp)/ Sandefjord Airport – taxi, train and bus

Predictably, Oslo (Torp) – known as Sandefjord airport – is a long way from Oslo. 110km away from the Norwegian capital in fact. And, once the plane has landed, there lies the question of how to get to Oslo.

Obviously, from that far away a taxi is out of the question (unless you’re Donald Trump – in which case, you’d probably not be on a Ryanair flight in the first place). And, unfortunately, there is no direct train link from the airport to central Oslo.

Therefore there is the danger of walking out of the terminal and being consumed by blind panic. What to do? Hitch a lift? Rent a car?

Mercifully, there is a way out – TorpExpressen runs a bus service that goes from Torp Airport to Oslo’s main bus station. It is timed to coincide with Ryanair arrivals. Of course, it takes nearly two hours to get into Oslo, and costs a considerable percentage of what the flight cost in the first place cost, but that’s what to expect when getting cheap flights into tiny random airports in the middle of nowhere.

Cheap Ryanair Flights to Oslo

Budget airline Ryanair accounts for most of the flights going in to Oslo (Torp). The Irish discount carrier flies there from Glasgow Prestwick in Scotland, Liverpool John Lennon and London Stansted in England and Frankfurt and Bremen in Germany. It also offers cheap flights from Marseille in France, Pisa and Milan in Italy and Dublin in Ireland.