have booked a week in the alps for next year and flying in to geneva. not been for a few years, but for some reason i had a bit of a game with flights last time.
which airlines normally do the best (price vs convenience) flights and when do they normally go on sale? - looking through some of the budget airlines nothing is listed past the end of the ski season.
based in sheffield, so ideally from manchester, liverpool, leed, east mids, brum but luton & london doable
cheers
Most flights are available 11 months in advance on a rolling basis.
Prices go up as seats go on sale.
Lots of the budgets cut their routes after the ski season so not all routes that are on for winter are on for the summer.
Done Manchester, Liverpool & Heathrow direct in the past.
Manchester by train is really easy
Liverpool has easy parking
Heathrow for the masochist unless you live in London
Don't write off the likes of BA if the do a direct flight. Sky scanner is good for looking or do a reverse search on the airline site put GVA as the departure point and see which destinations they do.
The game is called easyjet roulette.
The provision of summer Geneva flights has been patchy from smaller northern airports over the previous few years, alough 2015 seemed to bring the route back online. Manchester seems to always ahave summer flights, but it's usually your most expensive option. Personally I'd wait and see - Flights should be out by December.
Easyjet have most of the summer budget slots at GVA - Jet2 used to run a Leeds flight in the summer, but I haven't seen that one for a while
If you've driven all your stuff down to Luton - you might as well just drive the rest of the way. (That's not a totally flippant remark!)
BA is your next best bet - but it'll probably meean transferring via an intermediate airport - not ideal with bikes.
Flown several times from Liverpool to Geneva with easyjet to do the PDS. They "lost" one guys bike which turned up after 2 days, but other than that no isdues.
I like the system at Liverpool, its a quick in/out being a smaller airport.
If you've driven all your stuff down to Luton - you might as well just drive the rest of the way. (That's not a totally flippant remark!)
having driven from Bicester to Verbier I'd never fly to the Alps again. Door-to-door the times are similar as you waste so much time around a flight (the actual flying is the shortest bit) and when we did it a couple of years ago, happily sitting on toll roads for ease it only needed 2 of us in the car to make it cost effective. As I own a huge Alhambra we took all the kit and spares we wanted, and actually took 2 bikes for mates who had already booked to fly to save them the cost/hassle.
Last time we flew to Geneva (admittedly a few years ago now) BA were actually cheaper than Easyjet once you'd factored in the cost of flying the bike.
Used to do regular Geneva trips with work
If I was going for a holiday, no doubt about it at all, I would drive there.
If I was going for a holiday, no doubt about it at all, I would drive there.
The dull flat 4hrs in the middle does put me off..
If it was just a week and from north of the Midlands I'd be flying, a fairly relaxed way to travel so long as it doesn't catch fire.
thanks for the info.
very much favouring flying as it will be a 14 hour drive from Sheffield, so it's taking extra holiday for the journey.
will keep an eye on the budget airlines websites then for when the summer flights get released