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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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crazy_skier_jules, heading to the airport now and hopefully be able to get the earlier 2.50pm flight. Easyjet allow you to travel at an earlier time if you get to the airport early. Rang up before and there was 34 seats available, so heading thaere now. What seats are you on the later flight, what transfer are you on etc?
Temp is 0c right nor at 1350m. Overcast skies so not great light conditions.
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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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Oh cool! Massive thanks for the heads up on the flight changes, we are on the 11:30am coach from La Clusaz to Geneva, and we will arrive at 1pm so will deffo try and get on the earlier flight rather than hang around the airport for hours.
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crazy_skier_jules, go straight to the easyjet desk and ask to be put on the earlier flight. They will do it free of charge as long as there is still room. Let me know how you get on.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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That's the plan - cheers mate 
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That's the plan - cheers mate
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crazy_skier_jules, Ricklovesthepowder, sounds like you've had a good few days out there. Hope the journey back proves uneventful.
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Leaving for Stansted in half an hour..... looks like Stansted is ok so far but Geneva has snowfall.
Fingers crossed we don't get any delays for the 5pm flight, due to get to GB at 10pm
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snowscreen, hearing lots of problems in Geneva. Must me a temperature inversion because at 1350m it's currently 5.4c!
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snowscreen, Geneva airport arrivals and departures seem a bit delayed at the moment - few hours - but not catastrophic. The airport website reports weather as cloudy, and minus 2. A day to have a good book and chill, perhaps?
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I can confirm there are MASSIVE delays in Geneva airport. Pretty much all flights in and out UK are delayed, due to weather it seems. I'm currently in a double backed queue the length of the check in terminal twice.
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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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crazy_skier_jules,  what a pain. Flights do seem to be getting out, mostly 2-3 hours later than scheduled but also major delays noted in Leeds, Manchester, Zurich, etc - so they all knock on to each other, I guess. Did your Mum get to ski at all, in the end?
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We didn't get the earlier transfer, so sat waiting in resort for the bus to take us. Just had a lovely lunch, really can't be bothered with huge queues at Geneva. What exactly is the hold up, is it the UK end or Geneva?
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You know it makes sense.
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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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Ricklovesthepowder, lunching is a very smart option. Staying till tomorrow could be even smarter! Geneva airport is a good place never to visit on a Saturday in the ski season, even when things are going OK.
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Poster: A snowHead
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pam w, in the transfer now. At the chalet it was +6c, dropped down to 650m and it's now -2c! Should be at the airport in 45 minutes so will update when I arrive.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Just got her, queue for baggage check in is now 3 times the length of check in. Absolute utter shambles. Snowing very heavy now, we could be here all night.
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Snowing very heavy now
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oh dear. As I have often noted on snowheads (usually when somebody makes some crass comment about how UK airports can't cope with the kind of snowfall they get once in several years) it doesn't take an awful lot of snow to close Geneva.
However, you're travelling with easyJet, aren't you? IME they sometimes do better than their rivals in coping with snow. If you are offered a hotel in Geneva I'd grab the offer immediately with both hands. My brother in law didn't, because he wanted to get home, but ended up having to fly to Luton when his car was in Birmingham - and rail services in the UK badly disrupted by snow. He'd have done better to relax in Geneva overnight.
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pam w, cheers for the advice. I will give it 1 hour maximum before everything in and out of here is diverted or cancelled if this snow continues. It's lashing down.
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Still meandering up and down the length of GVA airport. Snow outside is probably now an inch deep.
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Mr Loatie flew out first thing this morning EasyJet Gatwick - Geneva with no problems and has been in LGB since lunchtime. Looks like the situation has got progressively worse throughout the day - bang goes my argument against getting up in the middle of the night in order to get the first flight out which I hate doing. Mr Loatie always maintains that it's the best flight to get before any problems mount up and I think this has probably proved him right. Ricklovesthepowder, Hope you get back ok. When I had a few hours to kill at Geneva a couple of weeks ago, I took the opportunity to explore the train station through the revolving door. There were actually a number of quite nice shops there and it relieved the boredom a bit of airport prowling!
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No no no make it stop
Just eating at stansted, flights listed as being on time at 5....
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Got rushed through baggage and our flight was being called, come through now and our flight doesn't even have a gate? Still lashing down with snow. They will have to clear runways very soon, that's the best case scenario.
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Sat on the floor, looking at planes covered in snow, I can't even see the runway due to how heavy it's coming down. Anyone in the UK waiting to get out here, you will probably be delayed until this stops as its heavy!
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The outbound flight to Geneva from Liverpool has been diverted to Lyon. Due to take off in 4 minutes and the plane is 200 miles away. This could be a long evening. Snow depth now at Geneva is a good 3" and shows no sign of stopping. If you die to fly out to Geneva this evening, I don't think you will be doing!
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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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Been called to gate with no sign of delays yet...
Can only hope enough gets cleared in the next 2 hours
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Geneva airport is now closed for the next 1.5hrs. It's just been on the tanoy.
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You know it makes sense.
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Boarding now, maybe we'll be the 1st ones to try the runway out when were due to land in 1hr 30.
Wonder what happens if we end up in Lyon, coaches to Geneva.. Or stuck there till they can fly us
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Change of plan, seems easyjet weren't as quick as rick.
Back at gate now, will get news in 40 minutes apparently and they hope we may only be delayed an hour
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Geneva shut until 7.15pm at earliest. We have all just been given a lovely orange leaflet with what we are entitled to after a 2 hour delay. Are you ready for this
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A meal voucher and 2 phone calls!
Geneva airport is now estimating some flight to arrive at 2am!!! This sucks
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ricklovesthepowder, hope you got back OK.
What with all the doom laden forecasts of snow chaos back in GB we set off on our trek South to the Aravis a day early and are currently ensconced in the Val Moret near Troyes for the night. So far we've yet to experience any snow more than a couple of centimetres deep but I suppose I shouldn't tempt fate and the roads are wonderfully quiet.
Have any of you any recommendations for a day's ski outing within an hour's drive of LGB? We need it to be suitable for some nervous skiers ie gentle blues. What are the blue runs like over at La Giettaz? How long does it take to drive to Les Saisies? We know The Grand Massif resorts but anywhere else we should be thinking of?
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It's stopped snowing which is good news, but the backlog of flights from a 3 hour closure will be huge. What would be best for us, is if we were bussed to Lyon, which is where our plane is, and we flew from there.
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DIY job for us so really need to get out tonight, transfer driver has been informed
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Thanks for that update Rick, given me some hope
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snowscreen, is your transfer driver called Ged by any chance, and is it with aravis transfers?
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Jeez Ricklovesthepowder et al, big sorry to all trying to fly today - due to dodgey wifi here we'ed totally missed all the last page worth of posts so didn't mean to sound unsympathetic. Hope things get sorted as rapidly as possible.
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Nope, we booked with Aravis Tours (guy called Mel)
But, he passed the business to Allo Taxi's so it's them getting us apparently
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gvj, It takes around an hour, or just under, to drive to Les Saisies. You'll drive through Notre Dame de Bellecombe, in the same linked ski area, but Les Saisies skiing is easier, if you are looking for gentle blues.
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very tasty 
That said, my recent experience of Geneva is of horrible queues through security on a perfectly ordinary day, before the ski season had even got underway. Not sure which airport I loathe more, LHR or Geneva. 
