 Poster: A snowHead
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What a turn up for the books, this coming year Fly Be are planning to fly from Southampton to Berne, Chambéry, Geneva or Salzburg.
More importantly the prices are good as well 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Oh Good. I'll post a flag in the other topic about this.
Cheers D G Orf
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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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Ah I didn't notice before but they are also doing Birmingham to the same destinations !
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Manda, Hmm probably
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Manda, If the price is right YES! We never pay more than £100 for our return flights to Geneva.
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Flybe - not bad and certainly handy for us Southerners but beware if do you have a problem with the on line booking (like a friend of mine did) then you will need to ring their £1 per minute "helpline" !!!!  Does anyone else find this a contradiction in terms. I think its a bit rich to charge your customers like this. My friends a family of five with taxes paid £398 return inc taxes for 4th March flights returning a week later which is good value I think and its certainly a lot easier for my friends to use than the London airports.
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Frosty, always worth checking www.saynoto0870.com - it suggests alternatives to the premium rate numbers for flybe. I haven't tried them myself.
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Yes FlyBe's prices are not really cheap, but that £35 includes about £20 of taxes ! Besides Bern Airport is just 1 hour from Lauterbrunnen compared to Zurich or Geneva which are both about 3 hours away or even Basle about 2 hours away, important when the last train up to Wengen is about midnight and the first one out about 5.30 am
Mind you the flight from Southampton on a Saturday to Berne leaves at 07.45 Check in 06.45 is anyone in Southampton Airport at that time of day ?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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The check in time we were given for our Birmingham flight this year turned out to be an hour before the airport actually opened!! We only got let in because someone had rammed the automatic doors with a trolley and broken the mechanism.
They couldn't close them again and the bit of tape across the gap didn't stand up well against a flight of passengers faced with the prospect of queuing outside at 0430 on a January morning.
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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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Southampton is certainly not Gatwick, and let's be thankful. Small, civilised, you park (expensively) within a few yards of the terminal......I'm delighted to see that Flybe are expanding their winter flights, the more the merrier. At Chambery you park free within even fewer yards of the terminal, and can be at your car within five minutes of the plane touching down. Provided there is no fog...... But I have never tried it on a Saturday, when by all accounts it is a good place to avoid. Stick to the weekday flights, with no charter competition.
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D G Orf, Would agree with the comment about Bern Airport, certainly a short and convenient transfer to Wengen, as we discovered last Jan. Will consider FlyBe from Manchester again just for that reason.
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You know it makes sense.
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D G Orf, yes from experience Soton terminal is awake - can't say as much for the staff/cafe/WHSmith, tho  However considering that for even international flights it's still possible to turn up 30mins of departure, I shouldn't be so quick to get out of bed if I were you. Brush teeth 6am, check-in 6.20am, knock back cup of coffee at terminal, then buy a croissant when you arrive on the Continent. 
pam w, yep. Taxi £11pp, 20mins from my front door to (very nearly inside) check-in. No crowds, no queues, no idiot staff (although Soton staff do take longer to decipher my visa status - except for me, there are no UK residents travelling from Soton on an NZ passport ). I still can't do a crafty Monday to Friday trip to les Alpes francais via Chambery or Geneva, tho. Limited to Thurs - Tues, which involves weekend prices in resort. Sigh. One day I might not be so tight.
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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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srobbo, FlyBe only do Manchester to New York, Gurnsey, Jersey and Southampton, However they will do Berne, Chambéry, Geneva or Salzburg from Birmingham
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Poster: A snowHead
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Manda, FlyBe say 1 hour before departure with luggage, 45 mins without although I'm sure 2 years ago it was just 30 mins
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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D G Orf, FlyBe did the charter flights for Inghams last winter inc Manchester - Berne
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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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srobbo, Ah !
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srobbo, If you need to go to Wengen (lol)you can go with Crystal as they are flying into Berne now or buy seat only from £99.
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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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Chris Brookes, I checked the other day for a friend and Crystal flights from Stanstead to Berne was £199 return not during half term week
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