 Poster: A snowHead
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Lou, we've got a Halifax Easycash Visa Electron just for booking flights, it's free with the Electron card.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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| Grimsby Ranger wrote: |
| Lou, we've got a Halifax Easycash Visa Electron just for booking flights, it's free with the Electron card. |
Lou, See you can save 
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thefatcontroller, though I drove to central Italy and back in August for £300, incl. diesel, tolls and ferry so yes you can save if you want
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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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Fly BA or a proper airline. I took 50+kg to Zurich last week and had no problems. On the way out it was all in one bag and went as oversized, on the way home I was asked to split it into two bags as one item can not weigh over 32 kg apparently - one went as check in luggage the other containing skis and a few bits as oversized.
The BA check in staff were perfectly civil and it wasn't a problem.
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Grimsby Ranger, thanks, a helpful tip.
thefatcontroller, great, but do you get my point? 
Never mind.
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weeSKI, yes, but people want the expensive service while paying a budget price. (Apart from that Thomas the Tank Engine chappie, who just wants to advertise his mobile nightclub.) 
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Lou, I genuinley do 
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| Grimsby Ranger wrote: |
| thefatcontroller, though I drove to central Italy and back in August for £300, incl. diesel, tolls and ferry so yes you can save if you want |
Would be interested to see the breakdown in costs?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| Lizzard wrote: |
| weeSKI, yes, but people want the expensive service while paying a budget price. |
But then I've rarely found BA much (if indeed any) more expensive than the 'low-cost' airlines - especially if I plan to fly into an airport that's actually where it says it is...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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BA lost my luggage along with 50 other last season- I missed out on 3 days skiing and they didnt offer me anymore than $50 of compensation- teminal 5 working- rubbish! 
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| thefatcontroller wrote: |
| Lizzard wrote: |
| weeSKI, yes, but people want the expensive service while paying a budget price. (Apart from that Thomas the Tank Engine chappie, who just wants to advertise his mobile nightclub.) |
100% agree all for paying a real cost for real service. . |
I'm at work so haven't got the exact costs with me but from memory the ferry was £35 return, booked well in advance. My car uses diesel and easily gets 60mpg on a run if I don't thrash it too much, we got most of our diesel in Luxembourg and paid about €1.16 a litre. We obvously started with a very full tank in England to get to Lux. and also had top ups in Italy and Switzerland coming back before we got to the cheap stuff. We got the ferry to Dunkirk and went Belgium, Lux, France, Switzerland, Italy route to avoid the French tolls. We had a few tolls to pay before Italy but hardly anything, the Italian tolls were €38 each way. I probably should have said around £300 as I can't remember if it was just over or just under all in all but it wasn't far off. Oh and it included the Swiss tax too.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I've got a nomination for best carrier for skiing ( if it's based on price).
Germanwings from Stansted to Stuttgart, we paid £36pp return 7-15 Feb 2009 inc 20kg bag, all fees & FREE SKI CARRIAGE. I'll let you know what the service is like when we get back.
Stuttgart airport is right on the Autobahn on south-west of city, so pretty handy for all points E of Zurich and W of Innsbruck
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Poster: A snowHead
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luigi, I've flown on business with German Wings - they were fine.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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snowball, Easyjet quoted us last week over £30 each to carry skis, will hire for the short break on that basis.
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I flew with BA from terminal 5 last week, to Munich. As it was early in the season the check in girl evidently wasn't aware of their own sports equipment policy. I said I had 3 bags, she said that's £25 excess per bag (or whatever the amount is). I said but it's skis and boots, she said oh righ - sports equipment, but you can only take one bag. I say no - your website quite clearly states skis and boots. Check in girl had to call a supervisor to confirm. I was getting slightly wound up, they should know their own rules! (and i should have taken a print out of them with me).
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Is it Easyjet who are £30 or have I just got muddled with another year?
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snowball, we paid £33 for the return journey with Easyjet at Xmas. Still seems a lot but considerably less than the Ryanair £50. When we were booking our Xmas flights, the Ryanair outbound flight that we could have used was quoted as £0.00 but by the time we'd added on tax, a hold bag & skis it worked out more than the Easyjet flights
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Lou,
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and then a whopping charge for using a card to pay. How the hell else am I supposed to pay online?
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Saw Dick Turpin (or whatever his name is....) that runs Ryanair on TV this week. He says it's free if you pay by Visa Electron and that 20% of Ryanair customers use that payment method.
Anybody got one? Do all the banks do 'em? Or do you get them through Visa or something??
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| mountainaddict wrote: |
Lou, Saw Dick Turpin (or whatever his name is....) that runs Ryanair on TV this week. He says it's free if you pay by Visa Electron and that 20% of Ryanair customers use that payment method.
Anybody got one? Do all the banks do 'em? Or do you get them through Visa or something?? |
You mean the incredibly successful multi millionaire business man who broke Are Lingus's monopoly on Irish air travel and also the cartel the main airline carriers had on european air travel?
Answer was in thread above.
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=1062649#1062649
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"Dick Turpin" He would have a laugh at that, which is better than him laughing at you!!!
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tbanting, I went with Crystal on my first hol (flew BA) and we had two baords and two sets of boots in one bag and just paid the fee for one set. No-one checked and even when the BA handler's back nearly snapped in two loading it into the oversize baggage scanner, it wasn't queried. Just test it and see if they can be bothered to implement HQ's protocol...
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Megamum, get a lighter bag. A 10kg suitcase is just silliness.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Megamum, My boots weigh 6Kg  . You will not be able to get them on as hand luggage. You just need to pack very, very carefully not forgetting what you wear doesn't count and you can take a hand luggage bag. As Lizzard says look for a lighter bag.
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Easyjet always send you an email advertising a sale the day after you pay for the flights..
plus once you've used easyjet or similar once then you know what teh charges are likely to be so can't really be seen as hidden.
Bristol airport porbably says no boots because the always seem to ask you to take your shoes off, or probably more to do with their long security queues then a specific threat issue
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You know it makes sense.
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Sleasyjet have just emailed me with a skis fly free offer if you book in the next week
- only 2 drawbacks
1 Click on the terms and conditions & it says offer has been withdrawn for technical reasons
2 Only valid for return flights before 28 March (obviously all snow in Europe melts on this date) - if I was being cynical I might suggest this is deliberate to continue to extract Ester bookings from people who might not find out they do not qualify until too late.
Michelle - want to have a word/
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I do find these threads a tad amusing ... it is the same forum where folks dont object to paying £100+ each-way from airport to resort and undoubtedly a few quid more from home to airport as well .. I am right?
Sorry to tell you guys but the days of 'Cheap' air travel have gone ... EZ and others now have to deliver the occasional profit ... there'll always be another mug who thinks aviation makes money ... here today and errggghhh gone today as well.
I dont like the way the industry 'cuts-and-dices' its fare structure/(s) either but everyone SO loved £1 fares ...
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Poster: A snowHead
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| weeSKI wrote: |
| Fly BA or a proper airline. |
To where?
I don't want to go to London to ski and BA don't fly anywhere else from here.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Mosha Marc wrote: |
| BA don't fly anywhere else from here. |
Move then
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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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Agenterre, how could I have been so blind?
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Mosha Marc, How long have we got ? ... Shouldnt we be asking Mrs G that question?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Agenterre, no need. She asks me every night.
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Megamum, Richard E took his boots through Stansted as hand luggage in Nov 2007 to the PSB - however, I don't know if the same applies now.
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bertie bassett, Thanks for the tip, but I think the bit you missed in my post is that we haven't paid for taking skis we are hiring in resort as its only a short trip. I've got the big ski bag with wheels from the epic VT by train trip last April, but won't be using it in Dec. due to not taking my skis.
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Megamum, as above, lighter bag, wear more out there, pack as much into hand luggage and expect to smell a bit when you run out of fresh clothing.
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FAQ
). I've been told I've got 20Kg to play with as hold baggage 