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.
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