 Poster: A snowHead
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Has anybody used www.charterflights.co.uk?
Any issues?
Also the specific flights I am looking at are Gatwick to Chambery on Thomson flights (I think as TOM is flight number). It is £49 per set of skis and poles upto 15kg...any recent experience of booking one and taking a double ski bag with two sets? Obviously under the 15kg limit?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Use them every year, without any problems. A couple of years ago I wanted flights to and from Turin. Charterflights price was somewhere about £170. As the flight was operated by Thomson, I went in to their local shop to book, thinking I might get additional discount as a SCGB member. They offered the same flights -£275. So back home to book online. I haven't taken double skis but have stuffed the ski bag with goodies I was taking out.
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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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| deerman wrote: |
| Use them every year, without any problems. A couple of years ago I wanted flights to and from Turin. Charterflights price was somewhere about £170. As the flight was operated by Thomson, I went in to their local shop to book, thinking I might get additional discount as a SCGB member. They offered the same flights -£275. So back home to book online. I haven't taken double skis but have stuffed the ski bag with goodies I was taking out. |
Thanks! I have beeb trying to work out if there was a better way to book those seats. The flights I want are £249 return. Although we can get to Geneva from Heathrow with Swiss for less, Chambery cuts down commute time and are more social hours... if I select better times with Swiss then these flights are cheaper.
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Have used them a few times (also trade as ski-flights.com). I use them for the Tui flight from Edinburgh to Innsbruck and was a lot cheaper than booking direct. Pretty sure that the ski carriage is 15kg per bag with Tui which I’ve paid for. Have never had an issue with multiple skis in the one bag as long as not exceeding limit.
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| NickyJ wrote: |
| deerman wrote: |
| Use them every year, without any problems. A couple of years ago I wanted flights to and from Turin. Charterflights price was somewhere about £170. As the flight was operated by Thomson, I went in to their local shop to book, thinking I might get additional discount as a SCGB member. They offered the same flights -£275. So back home to book online. I haven't taken double skis but have stuffed the ski bag with goodies I was taking out. |
Thanks! I have beeb trying to work out if there was a better way to book those seats. The flights I want are £249 return. Although we can get to Geneva from Heathrow with Swiss for less, Chambery cuts down commute time and are more social hours... if I select better times with Swiss then these flights are cheaper. |
Don't want to throw a dampner on things but charter flights are far more frequently late and Chambery is notorious for delays and cancellations in bad weather.
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Was reckoning should be he fine in April?
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| T Bar wrote: |
| Don't want to throw a dampner on things but charter flights are far more frequently late and Chambery is notorious for delays and cancellations in bad weather. |
I've never been delayed coming into Chambery, just lucky I guess. But i have spent hours queuing in the passport control shed and then waiting for baggage on those tiny carousels. I've often found myself wondering whether the time saved in transfer is all lost at the airport anyway.
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@RichClark, when eldest gets travel sick and the need to toilet stops with younger travelers... don’t mind the time per se it is the time in a vehicle that is the main concern 
Waiting at baggage reclaim there is at least toilets available.
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@NickyJ, perfectly good reasons and the reason I still opt for Chambery when I'm with my son. Otherwise, I prefer GVA then I'm by myself or with friends.
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Out of curiosity I have been on the Crystal ski website to check prices of flights only. Their last flight of the season is 31st March at £680 !! ( I assume that as part of TUI they are using Thomson flights to Chambery...)
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