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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sean Newsom, brilliant, thanks.  Once again the easyJet special "news by email" system is a complete dead loss - if you ever get an email, it's absolutely ages after the event and a waste of time. I am a big easyJet fan but that system really is a waste of space. Flights from Birmingham to Grenoble are exactly what I am looking for for my sister and brother in law to visit in March.
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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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pam w, that's interesting to know. I'd love it if you could give me a heads when eJ does actually send you a "news by email" update!
Grenoble, by the way is a great airport, midweek at least. I've heard it gets very busy at weekends with charters, and if flights are delayed, the crowds of disgruntled passenger spill out onto the pavement. But on a quiet midweek afternoon it feels like you're the only person there. A distinct improvement on Geneva!
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yes, we've had people arrive midweek at Grenoble several times, but not at the weekend, up to now. One big advantage of Geneva is that being Swiss (albeit there's a tiny French corner) it is immune from the strikes which quite often affect flights in and out of French airports. We once arrived at Grenoble, at 0800, for an early flight, only to find the airport even more deserted than usual, and practically no flights leaving, because of a French ATC strike. We had to take our visitors into Grenoble and find a train to Geneva, then they had to take a flight to Gatwick, rather than Luton (where their car was) then take a train across London, very late at night, up to Luton.
When we got home to our apartment, having sorted out their train for them, we found - yes! an email from easyjet telling us the flight was cancelled.
I have noted Geneva and Grenoble as airports of interest on my easyJet profile, and I'll try to remember to let you know if I get an email from them! It amuses me that the mails come from an address which starts "blackhole". Quite appropriate, really.
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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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Excellent, thanks. I have had suspicions about the speed of the Easyjet mailings. It will be nice to be ahead of the game for a change.
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Grrr, I'm on the lookout for flights (or even just timetables for now) for the PSB, preferably Luton - Grenoble so I was chuffed to see that the flight has been released according to http://www.easyjet.com/en/book/winter_seats_now_available.html
However, if you try to book it then it tells you the flights aren't available and points you at the timetable - which still shows winter 06/07
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FenlandSkier, it looks as though it might be only a twice-weekly service, on Saturdays and Sundays. If you enter one of those days, there are flights available through the winter.
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Sean Newsom, ahh, and it looks like it doesn't start until the end of December either, so no good for me.
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Sean Newsom, I received an easyJet email today telling me that Bristol winter flights were now on sale. That's been what, about two weeks now that they've been on sale? So maybe in another two weeks I might get an email about the new flights to Geneva (one of my airports of special interest) someime in August? It would surely be SO easy for easyJet to get emails out promptly, the present set up is just a waste of time all round.
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Sean Newsom, Got a 'generic winter flights on sale now' e mail this am.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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pam w, boredsurfin, thanks for the heads up! At least easyJet's press office is more efficient: unlike Ryanair's, which told me their winter flights would be on sale "in August", before starting to sell them in JUNE. Are either of you on its email alert system? Is it any better? I've been bombarded with summer deals, but haven't seen anything about the winter flights.
I'll ask eJ what they're up to as far as email alerts go.
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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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boredsurfin, pam w, eJ claims there was a glitch this time with some of the emails, and they sent out a second batch - "Generally (and in the future) we will be mailing as close to schedule
release as possible."
Let's see how well they do!
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eJ claims there was a glitch this time
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I don't buy that. It's been the same for some years. If it's a glitch it's a very long-lasting one. Given the general efficiency of the eJ website (second to none, I reckon) I can't imagine they have given this problem much priority. Why would they, when you come to think of it?
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You know it makes sense.
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pam w, they really ought to fix it though. Then they wouldn't annoy Snowheads and their friends! It's not exactly good PR, and it can't be very difficult to sort out.
Anyway - if you get any more late ones, please send them to me at welove2ski.com.
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brian
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pam w, if you let me know an e-mail address and the routes you're interested in for future releases, I have a little script that checks the easyjet booking page and mails out when the bookable date changes. I intend to be running it again in November 
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