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Travel costs

With many budget airlines and flag carriers flying in to London, flights are relatively cheap from most of the world.

From Costs Europe Amsterdam £64 Athens £128 Dublin £33 Frankfurt £56 Istanbul £82 Lisbon £70 Madrid £72 Moscow £139 Oslo £59 Paris £49 Rome £87 Vienna £59 Warsaw £79

From Costs North America Chicago £507 (indirect) Houston £556 Los Angeles £550 (indirect) Mexico City £732 (indirect) Miami £411 New York £431 San Francisco £540 Toronto £466 Vancouver £625 South America Bogotá £813 (indirect) Buenos Aires £683 (indirect) Caracas £685 (indirect) Rio de Janeiro £550 (indirect) Santiago £853 (indirect)

From Costs Oceania Melbourne £849 (indirect) Sydney £805 (indirect) Auckland £798 (indirect) Africa Cairo £298 Johannesburg £372 (indirect) Nairobi £380 (indirect) Asia Bangkok £533 (indirect) Delhi £403 (indirect) Hong Kong £538 (indirect) Jakarta £564 (indirect) Seoul £593 (indirect) Singapore £499 (indirect) Taipei £773 (indirect) Tel Aviv £189 Tokyo £598 (indirect)

The prices listed include all taxes and duties and are for a return flight to London leaving the city on Wednesday 11th July 2012,
and returning Monday 16th July 2012

Currency

The pound sterling (ISO 4217: GBP), known locally as the pound (£) is the currency of the United Kingdom, divided into one hundred pence (p).

Currency exchange desks are available at all London airports, as well as at the Post Office and most banks and travel agents. Australian Dollars, Canadian Dollars, Euros, Japanese Yen, Polish Złoty, Swedish Krona and United States Dollars are all widely exchanged; other currencies are usually exchangeable at the airports.

Exchange rates as of 18 November 2011 (x-rates.com)
Currency	Equivalent of GB£1	Equivalent in GB£
Australian Dollar	1.56	0.63
Canadian Dollar	1.61	0.71
Euro	1.17	0.85
Japanese Yen	121.49	0.0082
Swedish Krona	10.74	0.082
United States Dollar	1.57	0.63