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Old Jun 1, 2019, 7:32 am
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Originally Posted by mikem004
Where are they getting all the extra pilots and cabin crew from?
The number sounds very high. If there really are that many additional flights in connection with the match, this suggests that the overwhelming majority of them will be small private planes rather than commercial jetliners. The stadium has a capacity of circa 67000. If every single person in that stadium came by plane, this would require somewhere in the region of 300 to 350 A320/321 family aircraft.

According to ITV, NATS said that they expected an additional 400 charter flights, including repositioning flights, and an extra 200 private jet movements, which sounds rather closer to the mark than the figure of an extra 1500 flights.
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