Turin Warning

Opening

Today is the Big Opening Day… any reports about conditions in Caselle?

Would Cuneo be a good alternative for Turin. Romanian Low Cost Airline, Blue Air think so. It is a small regional airport near Turin and planestation previously had some involvement in it

http://web.aeroporto.cuneo.it/
http://www.blueair-web.com/index.php?location=schedule&LANG=EN

CUF is 73 km from Caselle and has 1 2100 m runway.
LIMN might also be good? 1 2900 m runway…

TURIN 2006 is 10th FEB until 26th FEB 🙂

Ohh fantastic…The day of the closing ceromony is the day i fly out there…ohh what joy that will be! :rolleyes:

Has Turin had problems like this before? This is really concerning when they will have sporting world descending on them in a matter of weeks (BTW – What are the dates of the winter olympics)

TURIN 2006 is 10th FEB until 26th FEB 🙂

Would Cuneo be a good alternative for Turin. Romanian Low Cost Airline, Blue Air think so. It is a small regional airport near Turin and planestation previously had some involvement in it

http://web.aeroporto.cuneo.it/
http://www.blueair-web.com/index.php?location=schedule&LANG=EN

Don’t go skiing….. !!! 🙂

or if you do, fly to Innsbruck,Salzberg,Chambery or Calgary…all airports that know how to handle the demands of the british ski-ing tourist!

I flew into Turin airport last year for ski-ing(2005), and it was a complete shambles, One of my first comments to the group i was with was “how the hell will they cope with the Olympics”. Flew with Firstchoice, and the stansted flight was tucked in between the FCA Gatwick and Manchester flight…One check-in desk for each. Took almost 1 1/2 hrs to clear security (removed Shoes,Belts,coats and Jumpers) got through security to find on the airside there is a TINY duty free/giftware shop and an overpriced winebar, our flight to STN was 3hrs late, so not a great deal to do,except look out the window and give marks from 1-10 on airplane landings… Now if you partake in the filthy habbit of smoking,like myself Italy has no smoking in public places rule.

asked a policeman if i could go outside to get a quick fix outside and he let me through a opening in security, Decided to hang around the check-in side as that was where the best restaurants/cafe’s are for a few mins, Rejoined the security check queue, only for the policeman to recognise me and wave me through without being re-checked,which was a shock…eventully our FCA A321 showed up and was allowed to board..got back to stansted,only to find that half the luggage went between Machester and Gatwick, and we got some of there’s (give FCA credit, i had my case back by 9am the next day).
Turin is a shambles from my experiance, and im flying there again on Feb 26 with FCA to try not to break a bone while ski-ing.
One other thing….if you do happen to go there…have a spare 10 Euro coin for the baggage trolley or a credit card to swipe through the machine, thats if you happen to get one…seemed to be a severe shortage of them last time.

On another quick note…..The Winter Olympics is in roughly 6 weeks time! and some of the events are being held in Sestriere and Sauze d’oulx about a 2hr coach transfer if your going.. I think the only events to be held in Turin are the Skating,Curling and Ice Hockey.

O no, this won’t be good if it happens during the Winter Olympics which are in a few weeks!!

Don’t go skiing….. !!! 🙂

Has Turin had problems like this before? This is really concerning when they will have sporting world descending on them in a matter of weeks (BTW – What are the dates of the winter olympics)