Traveling from Santiago back to Switzerland

jirit

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Time of past OR future Camino

Camino Frances 2007,
Via Francigena Italy, 2008,
Jakobsweg Austria 2010,
Camino Frances 2011,
Le Puy to Lourdes 2012,
Via de la Plata 2013,
Future:
Ökumenischer (Via Regia), Germany,
Lycian Way, Turkey

• Aug 15, 2013

• #1

My other and mostly better half will be walking the camino frances route this September and October.

When finished at the end of October, she wants to travel over to Switzerland to visit some family. She is a little concerned that Easy Jet which has the right to cancel flights may in fact cancel the only flight from Santiago to Geneva (there are only a few flights each week during this period of the year)

Does anybody have any experience traveling from Santiago to Switzerland or can offer some alternate methods that might be suitable?

Thanks

 

piogaw

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Time of past OR future Camino

Camino frances (05/06 2012) sjpdp-sdc; vdlp/camino sanabrea (02/03 2013) sevilla-sdc; hospitalero sdc june 2013, august-september 2013; caminho portugues (03 2014) lisboa-sdc

• Aug 15, 2013

• #2

Hello jirit,

Although i have not taken this particular flight from scq to gva, i would not worry about easyjet. They have 3 flights per week towards the end of october and are pretty reliable in terms of flight cancellation. The other alternative is to fly to madrid and then to geneva with other airlines, but they are quite expensive.

On the other hand a train journey takes too long and will involved 3 changes through paris.

 

jdpiguet

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Past? Not enough.
Future? Sure!

• Aug 15, 2013

• #3

Hello Jirit,

I flew Santiago to Geneva last year in November: no problem at all.
The plane was almost full, so I wouldn't fear a cancellation...

BR, Jacques-D.

PS: Another option is the Alsa bus, but it takes around 28 hours...

 

jirit

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Donating Member

Time of past OR future Camino

Camino Frances 2007,
Via Francigena Italy, 2008,
Jakobsweg Austria 2010,
Camino Frances 2011,
Le Puy to Lourdes 2012,
Via de la Plata 2013,
Future:
Ökumenischer (Via Regia), Germany,
Lycian Way, Turkey

• Aug 16, 2013

• #4

jdpiguet said:

Hello Jirit,

I flew Santiago to Geneva last year in November: no problem at all.
The plane was almost full, so I wouldn't fear a cancellation...

BR, Jacques-D.

PS: Another option is the Alsa bus, but it takes around 28 hours...

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Thanks Jacques-D

I will pass on your comments to my wife. We did as a back up consider a train trip to Madrid and catching an easyjet flight from there to Geneva.

 

ncali12

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• Aug 16, 2013

• #5

Sounds like Easy Jet should not be a problem. I wonder if the TAP flight through Lisbon to Geneva would be easier/quicker than training to Madrid...

 

jirit

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Donating Member

Time of past OR future Camino

Camino Frances 2007,
Via Francigena Italy, 2008,
Jakobsweg Austria 2010,
Camino Frances 2011,
Le Puy to Lourdes 2012,
Via de la Plata 2013,
Future:
Ökumenischer (Via Regia), Germany,
Lycian Way, Turkey

• Aug 18, 2013

• #6

Funny thing happened on the way to forum...

My wife has gone ahead and booked her seat for the late October departure after discovering that the number of available seats were quickly disappearing and price was jumping. Probably got the last of special price seats.