The Tor des Geants is a circuitous hike around the Aosta Valley and the closest airports are Geneva just to the North of Courmayeur, and Milan to the West of Pont St Martin. We choose to fly in and out of Geneva, closest to the start and finish in Courmayeur.
Thanks Bonnie for all your help. Flying standby is a tricky business, but Bonnie makes light work of it with plenty of options planned to ensure we fly business class with Etihad. This time, we had planned to leave on Friday August 12th, but on Saturday August 6th, Bonnie said time to go as teh flights looked good. So at 7am the next day, we left Cleveland to fly to Sydney in time to catch the 3.15pm Etihad flight to Abu Dhabi, where we had only a 3 hr wait for our 2.50am flight to Geneva, arriving at 8am Monday morning 8th August
Our original plan was to visit our exchange student Luca in Bern Switzerland at the end of our hike in September but the flights looked full then, and since we had left early, we decided to visit Bern prior to our hike. This worked out perfectly as from Geneva Airport, we tooke a connecting train direct to Bern and 2 hours later we arrive at our BnB Am Pavillon ready to start our adventure holiday.