 Poster: A snowHead
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For the northern  ..... as above, they're both closed this morning @ 6am. I hope there's not many making there way out today?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Not surprised, further up north here in Darlington it's still falling. It's supposed to turn to rain here later as we're at the bottom of a valley but on higher ground is anyone's guess!
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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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Although, Newcastle Airport is still running despite the weather!
@Gaz_H, see you on the Birthday Bash in a few weeks! 
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Thoughts + prayers with those (particularly, families with young children) stuck at the marvel that is Chambery Airport today
Last edited by You need to Login to know who's really who. on Sun 5-01-25 10:26; edited 1 time in total
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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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Only been to Chambery for one ski trip, that was enough! 
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No great surprise that Leeds Bradford is closed too at the moment.
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@RichardB, ...... Big dump to Arabba this coming week
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| franga wrote: |
| Thoughts + prayers with those (particularly, families with young children) stuck at the marvel that is Champery Airport today |
Flights leaving Birmingham to Chambery. Flights arriving at Chambery.
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| alti - dude wrote: |
| franga wrote: |
| Thoughts + prayers with those (particularly, families with young children) stuck at the marvel that is Champery Airport today |
Flights leaving Birmingham to Chambery. Flights arriving at Chambery. |
Wait until departing flights FROM Chambery are cancelled, delayed or diverted
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| franga wrote: |
| Thoughts + prayers with those (particularly, families with young children) stuck at the marvel that is Chambery Airport today |
I've just read the article in The Independent on Chambery...... what a nightmare!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Probably worth a thread of its own, given how many people using this site might travel with TUI, through Crystal, in a winter season?
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I have never got the hate for Chambery.
We have used it multiple times over the years with zero issues.
My mate who lives in Ste Foy always said "its closed all the time for fog" but never happened with us.
Much closer drive to many resorts, and your luggage generally arrives about 5 mins after you get off the plane !
The final descent along the valley is one of my favourite things in aviation.
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You know it makes sense.
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Article from Jan 2020 ??
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@GreenDay, I've used it twice, one of the times we had a fair delay at departure because of waiting for fog to clear.
And if flights are grounded the airport is so small that it quickly becomes overcrowded. We had the same issue at Grenoble the other week.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| alti - dude wrote: |
Article from Jan 2020 ?? |
My fault. I read 2 articles and mentioned the wrong one...... it was The Manchester Evening News
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@alti - dude, oops…I didn’t notice the date. 
False alarm over TUI 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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| franga wrote: |
| Thoughts + prayers with those (particularly, families with young children) stuck at the marvel that is Chambery Airport today |
This  I got stuck here for a day and home 2 days later with a 1 year old .
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| Gaz_H wrote: |
| For the northern ..... as above, they're both closed this morning @ 6am. I hope there's not many making there way out today? |
Mates just off for Spain after a 3.5 hour delay - Manchester.
Last edited by You need to Login to know who's really who. on Sun 5-01-25 11:13; edited 1 time in total
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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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Chambery was brilliant when you could fly from Southampton on a Thursday. I was once driving away (car parked three minutes walk from the terminal, free) within 10 minutes of touching down. And yes, that approach is terrific!
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I’m super wary about chambery after my experience. I’d be heartbroken if I lost a day skiing out of my week a year due to the weather. There’s a reasonable probability of it happening. Not worth it for me. Sadly. As it’s way closer and when it all runs smoothly is a great option!
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Having made it from Gatwick to Turin we've got a third of our party in Manchester, hopefully they'll be able to leave soon, radio silence on the group WhatsApp indicates they may now be on flight mode, they'd been sat on the plane for two hours last message.
The TUI/Chambery chaos reminds me of Crystal Eurostar chaos during french rail strike in Jan 2019, we were supposed to be on the overnight train to Bourg, got moved to the Friday lunchtime train with all of 36h notice- fortunately my OH had booked the day off and being my own boss I could move stuff around. We then discovered, overhearing chatter on the train that Crystal passengers had been told via text to get off at Albertville, a text we never received and in messenger chats with crystal customer service they seemed to know nothing or to contradict themselves, in the end we gambled and got off, were met by a crystal rep who told us we were being put in a hotel in Albertville overnight, with a 6AM coach to Tignes 'so we could get an extra day on the slopes' only to be abandoned at an apartment building that told us we couldn't check in till 5pm and that there was nowhere secure to leave our bags. /Rant
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Meanwhile back on topic Manchester runway is open again.
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Not a day to be the airport ops manager up north. It’s an oft mocked phrase but it really was the ‘wrong kind of snow’ to make things easy.
Firstly the staff have to get in - cue joke about how does the snowplough driver get to work?
As the temps were close to zero the snow was wet and gloopy. Powder snow can be blown slush not so much. You plough it out of the way, it then melts and then if the sky clears you have it freezing to ice which is a lot more tricky to get rid of. I’m sure today some would be tempted to do nothing and wait for it to melt, that saves any hassle from the environmental element - airport deicing fluid makes good fertiliser in water courses. You can’t use salt as it causes too much damage to the aircraft.
Then you’ve got to deice the aircraft. Not so tricky for those on the ground this morning as the aircraft are at the same temperature as the air so quite close to freezing. But those arriving will have been cold soaked at altitude, they then park and the sleet freezes to the wings and flying surfaces and forms a nasty layer of ice!
A day to throw a sickie!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| chocksaway wrote: |
| Firstly the staff have to get in ... A day to throw a sickie! |
Which is possibly why brother-in-law's early EasyJet flight to Geneva was cancelled. They've put him on one tomorrow morning, he will have lost at least a day's skiing.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@j b, That’s a shame, just one of those days I’m afraid.
Hope everything has calmed down in the home town after this weeks events.
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@chocksaway, much is made of how terrible the British are at dealing with snow, but I think there are two main drivers in that. Firstly, for much of the country it's not overly common to have a significant enough snowfall to cause many issues. Secondly, and as you allude to, quite often it's a horrible slushy snow which is a pain to deal with and then freezes.
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