A man flew from a business meeting in Sheffield to his home in Essex via Berlin because it was £8 cheaper than taking the train.

Not even £8, in fact. Jordon Cox, A.K.A. The Coupon Kid, saved a mind-blowing £7.72 by taking an international flight home via Germany rather than getting on a train.

The 18-year-old, who is deals and coupon blogger at MoneySavingExpert.com, says he always goes the ‘extra mile to save money’, (a gross understatement given he travelled an extra 1,017 miles in this particular case.)

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‘Even by my usual standards, I’ll admit this is a rather extreme way of saving money,’ Jordon said.

‘I know that flying is not environmentally friendly and I won’t do this every time I travel, but this was the cheapest way for me to get home and I got to enjoy a ‘free’ mini holiday to a city I’ve always wanted to visit.’

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Jordon found the cheapest one-way ticket from Sheffield to Shenfield, Essex was £47, but he could spend £4 on a train from Sheffield to Derby, £4.20 on a bus from Derby to East Midlands Airport, £11.83 on a Ryanair flight to Berlin, £9.54 on a flight from Berlin to Stansted and £8 on his bus ride home, totalling £37.57.

So it was a no-brainer, in other words.

Jordon also got to spend seven hours in Berlin, which he said was a city ‘on his bucket list.’

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