Is there something like a Flashpacker transportation? Not literally, as much depends on your personal preference. Do you like to drive or prefer to be carried around? A train ride could be a nice alternative to driving, especially if the train ride is one of the most scenic in the world, and you're sipping a glass of wine while enjoying the landscape (something you couldn't do if you were driving). How about a bike for a change, to stay in shape and take all the time you want to admire that lakeshore or city skyline from a different angle?

As Flashpackers tend to travel a lot and see many countries, flying is of course one of the main means of transportation. The once famous around the world tickets are getting less and less popular for two main reasons: 1) Flexibility. With these kind of tickets you're stuck to some destinations, you have to plan everything in advance and you can't for example go west to east and then decide to go back at some stage. 2) Cost. With so many low cost airlines nowadays it could be cheaper to buy tickets online for shorter flights, allowing you to see more places and and that little town where main airlines won't fly to.

Even if it's not easy to define the typical Flashpacker transportation, as much depend on your preference, there is something that definitely NOT Flashpacking.

19 hours bus ride? No thanks, that is sooo backpacker.

Although one might decide to go on a very long bus ride if that's the only way to see some places, or because the ride itself is spectacularly scenic, Flashpackers tend to avoid long and tiring bus rides just to save 50 bucks. First of all nowadays there are so many low cost airlines companies that you can really go from A to B in a fraction of the time and almost at the same price. Secondly if what define a Flashpacker is the style, then the 20 hours bus ride is definitely a no-no. The old days a bus ride would have meant traveling “like the locals” do; getting to know people and cultures. Nowadays on these bus rides you're more likely to see only a bunch of Backpackers because they read on a guide that that's the “local” thing to do, or because the bus is a “party bus” that will allow you to see the whole country at a package price. 

You can however spend the same amount of money traveling independently, with the main differences being that: you don't spend the whole time with other travelers like you but with the local people; you get to choose the accommodation you want and how long you want to stay in a place; you don't see only the exact things that any other person on the same tour has seen. As an example have a look on Travelblog to the blogs of Backpackers who went on the Kiwi Experience Bus (or any other company, the just happen to be the most popular) in New Zealand. They all mention the same bridge, same bungy jumping, same Maori cultural night, same typical food, same hostel at the very same day of the week. To us that is not Backpacking with a flash, with style; in a word is not Flashpacking.