Need flight advice, first time to Italy from ATL

Reply Subscribe

Thread Tools

Search this Thread

Jul 22, 2010, 9:49 am

mparker365

Original Poster

Join Date: May 2005

Posts: 16

Need flight advice, first time to Italy from ATL

First trip to Europe- doing 3 nights in Venice, 3 nights in Florence and 3 nights in Rome. Family of five (three teenagers) looking to fly coach from ATL to VCE on Dec 22 and returning on Jan 3 or 4th from FCO to ATL

Connect in AMS, MUC, CDG or EWR? Concerned about weather winter delays and short connection times. Avoid connections and fly non-stop from ATL to MXP and take a train??

AVOD would be nice for kids but DL flight in Dec to MXP is 767. Do you recommend AF,LT,KLM?

Thanks for any advice!

Jul 22, 2010, 9:57 am

TravellinHusker

Join Date: Dec 2008

Location: Venice, Italy

Programs: FlyingBlue Platinum, Miles&More Senator, bmi Diamond Club Silver, Marriott Gold Elite, SPG

Posts: 702

Quote:

Originally Posted by mparker365

Since you have to connect, of the airports you've listed, AMS or MUC are the better of the 4. AMS is not prone to cancellations and delays unless there is a real humdinger of a storm. MUC also has pretty good operations. However, in event of a cancellation or having to spend a night, either place would offer something to see/do during that night that would be better than CDG or EWR. If you can get on KLM on the 777 from ATL to AMS, then you'll have AVOD which is pretty good on KLM. Food is just average, but the reliability of KL is better than AF. So, you could quite easily fly ATL-AMS-VCE/FCO-AMS-ATL

Jul 22, 2010, 12:12 pm

slawecki

FlyerTalk Evangelist

Join Date: Dec 2000

Location: south of WAS DC

Posts: 10,131

muc,mxp,fra,vce all have fog and or snow problems in winter. i have had a lot of problems at jfk also. i presume ewr has similar problems, although i have not used it much in winter. i would still fly atl-xxx-vce, and return fco-yyy-atl. particularly with a family. i think those are real busy times at airports, and planes are quite full. we have avoided that problem by flying on dec 25, and then later in jan.