It is believed the helicopters were put on by the Giro's organisers RCS and offered to all the teams, those willing to pay for the ride being swiftly whisked off the mountain while the rest of the peloton waited with the rest of the race and public in the queue for the cable car .
. "But if you go in the cars you have to wait for the grupetto. There's a cable car that you get 50 people in, but with all the public, or we ride down 25km to the bus. We ended up going with the cable car. Naming the teams he knew took the quicker, less environmentally friendly option, Thomas said:"Quick-Step, Bora, Bahrain, I'm guessing UAE as well and Jumbo surely, but I asked Rohan Dennis and as you can imagine the reply I got from him... it wasn't a straightforward answer! You couldn't decipher whether they did or not. A few teams did... times have changed, haven't they? Normally we'd be first in line for a helicopter... now we're just the cable car crew.