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The airport of Madrid, Adolfo Suárez Madrid Barajas is a madridista stronghold today.
Scarves, smiles, shirts even already on from today,... the tide of the white club's fans exudes optimism although many admit that it cost them a salary to go to the final.
"It's a good thing it's not in St. Petersburg," Andrés tells us, apologizing for the appointment and forgiveness to the Ukrainian people.
However, he tells us that
"it has cost me all 1,700 euros, plane and ticket," he says
.
"And your wife?" I ask him.
"I don't have any, I'm single and the children don't cry for me," she says wryly.
Hundreds of fans, in groups, as a couple or alone, travel today to Paris from Madrid and from different airports in Spain.
Some 30,000 fans will come to Paris, many of them even without a ticket "to experience the atmosphere,"
Julián tells us.
The truth is that beyond the traditional means of travelling, the new mobility operators have jumped on the bandwagon of the final.
Among them, the travel sharing platform,
Blablacar
, of French origin.
Only for this Friday, the company has registered more than 30 shared car trips leaving from Madrid, Getafe, El Escorial, Leganés, Alcalá de Henares, Boadilla, San Agustín de Guadalix and Valdemoro to Saint-Denís, where will play the final of the Champions League.
This represents a 300% increase in searches for shared car and bus trips from the province of Madrid to Paris for this weekend.
Economic
BlaBlaCar users will travel more than
1,200 kilometers to enjoy the game
and the average price per passenger for a shared car is €70.
"For two weeks we have been seeing shared car trips from Madrid, El Escorial, Getafe, Leganés, etc. direct to Saint Denis. We have also reinforced services on our buses from Madrid to Paris due to the increase in demand. Point-to-point in shared cars or cross-border bus travel, we don't want anyone to be left without the chance to see the final and also share an event as historic as this with the fans.” Florent Bannwarth, Operations Director of BlaBlaCar in Spain and Portugal.
The truth is that we have done a quick search to travel from Madrid to Paris and
there was a place left in a trip shared by Tristán that asked for 80 euros.
Perhaps it is already the only option left for those who want to attend the final if they do not want to go alone in their private car since driving 1,200 kilometers is just a beating,
in addition to costing between 240 and 350 euros depending on the consumption of the vehicle that is carried
, according to Via Michelin and the fuel that is used.
Making the trip by electric car would be somewhat cheaper, especially if you sleep halfway and fully charge the battery at the destination included in the hotel price.
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