 Poster: A snowHead
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New route of interest to Midlanders? Apparently special offer flights alrady on sale...
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Flybe. launches ski route from Birmingham to Chambery
22nd September 2004
Flybe., Europe’s third largest low fares airline, today announces a further expansion of its services to France from the UK, with the launch of a new route from Birmingham to Chambery.
Travellers in the Midlands can now fly direct to the popular ski resorts of Chambery with flights priced from just £39, available for booking today at www.flybe.com.
Flybe. currently operates the Chambery route from Southampton Airport and its success has led to the Birmingham launch, with the first flight taking to the sky on 8th January 2005. This takes the total number of routes operated by flybe. out of Birmingham International up to twelve. |
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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How reliable is Chambery when it comes to weather-related closure? I think I read somewhere that because it is situated in a narrow valley with a large lake it gets more than its fair share of dense fog which leads to flight diversions.
Regards
Rob
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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rob@rar.org.uk, here you are. Our previous thread on this. Yes it can be a dodgy one on runway length (so airlines are really hot on checked baggage weight), fog and wind-shear.
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kuwait_ian, thanks. I think it was that thread that I read (I have a memory like sieve!). If I can get reasonable price car hire from Chambery I think I might give it a try from either Birmingham (near the office) or Southampton (not too far from home).
Regards
Rob
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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rob@rar.org.uk, About an hour from Chambéry to Bourg St Maurice, far less hassle in driving terms...
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rob@rar.org.uk, pleased to help. For independent travellers a diversion to Lyons or Geneva is not such a disaster. It really stuffs the TOs, however. And it can't be too frequent an occurence or airlines wouldn't be increasing their flight frequencies to it. When it works, it's great. I actually took off 20 minutes early once on a charter flight. Everybody on board, no mucking about for a take-off slot, so off we went.
Now I recall we also had something on car hire from Chambery ...... your turn with the search engine. 
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kuwait_ian, indeed you're right:
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=2007
PG, I used Chambery for the first time last year for a pre-Christmas trip with Crystal Ski. Great little airport close to the Tarantaise resorts, but had to hang around for 90 minutes after we landed for another flight to come in. Booking a car there would solve that problem.
Regards
Rob
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Excellent news. Why couldn't they say earlier? i.e. before I booked my "Free Tour of Germany" flights with Lufthansa!
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Had a quick check on this and most other "cheapie" airlines llike Sleazyjet etc. No fares for April!!
BA to Geneva 2nd April £370 from Isle of Man. But it's the only airline that's actually taking bookings.
The problems of living on a rock! 
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No doubt good news... but having just checked the website, would be even better if they had any outbound availablilty anytime from 26dec - 3jan !
Edit ...and better yet if there was more than one outbound flight per week !
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