Going abroad

[Vernie]

Can anyone advise as to options one has to get home when one's savings haven't reached the level yet of the price of airtickets? Example:  One flies for free if bookings are made for a group of X number of people, free passage by ship if you can do some kind of work on board etc  Would value suggestions from the travelling expat community.  Thanks

[Tim]

Giving up yourself to local immigration authorities can work out even better that you can think

[Carlushika]

Vernie, where do you want to go? If UK, then there are regular coaches from several Ukrainian cities to London Victoria coach station.

http://www.eurolines.co.uk/eurolines/home/hp.cfm?CFID=20392989&CFTOKEN=48925648

However, you might be able to obtain cheaper by taking one of the many cheaper routes out of Ukraine and pick up one of the cut-price flight operators to UK from many FSU locations in the neighbouring countries as well as Germany.

[Lt. Campers]

If I assume your trying to get back home to the UK. The cheapest options are:

1. Sell any of your unwanted, surplus to requirements stuff on an online auction site.
From the proceeds, book an online air ticket with Easyjet. Catch a coach or bus from
Kiev to Warsaw Poland.
Proceed to the Etiuda air Terminal ( where the cheapskates fly from ) at Warsaw airport,
to catch your Easyjet flight to Luton airport or Bristol.
You cannot miss the Etiuda air terminal as all you have to do is follow any students with
a backpack. 
Flights with Easyjet can be booked for the price of a pair of Levi jeans ( also its cheaper
to fly on a tuesday ) and Easyjet will love you if you bring little or no baggage. 

2. Is same as above. Except this time you book a Ryanair flight from Riga, Latvia.
Obviously you need to catch a bus or coach from Kiev to Riga and then proceed to
Riga airport.
Advantages - again flights with Ryanair can be booked for the price of a pair of Levi
jeans ( and cheapest flying on a tuesday ) Far greater choice of UK destinations like
East Midlands airport in Nottingham, Glasgow, Liverpool and London Stanstead.
Again Ryanair will love you if you bring little or no baggage. 

Disadvantages - you might need a Belarus visa to transit through Belarus to Latvia.

I have heard of a no frills Latvian airline, thats started up recently that might have
some eastern european connections with Ukraine ??
 

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