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New flight routes to Chambery plus Grenoble, Lyon & Geneva for Winter 2014
While there has been some consolidation of routes and less frequency on some flight schedules to The Alps there are a few new routes.
Just announced by Le Dauphin (although they did report this back in March too) is the return of the Paris – Chambery route after an absence of 11 years. Transavia, the LCC set up by Air France and KLM plan further expansion at Paris Orly increasing their fleet by up to 30 planes over the next few years while Air France plan to lose at least 10 aircraft. From 19 December until 30 March Transavia will fly the Orly – Chambery route on Thursday and Sunday evenings. Seems The 3 Valleys and Chambery airport are helping to finance and promote this route. Chambery is also now under 3 hours from Paris on the latest TGV trains.
While Chambery Airport can be a great route to La Tania with transfers possible in an hour – it is subject to early closure in bad weather & fog (TUI pay Lyon Airport a large retainer to be on standby if they need to divert their flights on a Saturday for example) and it can be overloaded on peak Saturdays.
As well as all the Charter Flights including all the TUI flights for Thomson, Crystal, Flexiski, First Choice and Ski Bound amongst others, there are now flights from:
Jet2 (Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle & Edinburgh).
Flybe (Southampton, Exeter, Birmingham, East Midlands & Bristol).
BA (London City).
Transavia Holland (Rotterdam & Amsterdam).
Blue Island (Jersey).
New routes for Winter 2014 to the Alps are:
easyJet: Manchester to Lyon.
Flybe: Bristol to Chambery, Inverness to Geneva, Southampton to Grenoble and Birmingham to Lyon.
Darwin Airline: Cambridge to Geneva.
Ryanair now have a 16:25 Wednesday flight from Stansted to Grenoble service (back at 19:30) – they also fly Sat/Sun so opens up long weekend options plus easyJet fly to Grenoble, Lyon & Geneva from Stansted.
Also remember Monarch are once again flying to Grenoble from Birmingham, Leeds & Manchester.
All the routes, all the flights at:
www.latania.co.uk/resort/Flying.htm
