Plenty of football fans at the airports today?
May 31, 2019, 7:55 am
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Plenty of football fans at the airports today?
Anyone spotted lots of football fans on the move today?
The Champions League final tomorrow in Madrid is an all-English affair: Liverpool vs Spurs.
The Champions League final tomorrow in Madrid is an all-English affair: Liverpool vs Spurs.
May 31, 2019, 9:37 am
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An Iberia A330 has just flown over my house into Luton (I live seven miles away) so no doubt that will be taking a few supporters over to Madrid tomorrow. Must be a charter. It’s an unusual sight for us, the biggest planes we normally would see are DHL A300s.
May 31, 2019, 7:06 pm
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A 25+ year old Isuzu Trooper with a load of lads waving Liverpool flags out of the windows passed me on the M2 yesterday. Given the car and the speed they were driving my first thought was that they could have chartered a jet to Madrid for around the same cost as what it was going to get there in that thing.
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Jun 1, 2019, 1:53 am
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A 25+ year old Isuzu Trooper with a load of lads waving Liverpool flags out of the windows passed me on the M2 yesterday. Given the car and the speed they were driving my first thought was that they could have chartered a jet to Madrid for around the same cost as what it was going to get there in that thing.
Jun 1, 2019, 2:25 am
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Jun 1, 2019, 3:46 am
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About 1500 extra flights according to this article!
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Jun 1, 2019, 5:54 am
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Jun 1, 2019, 7:32 am
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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.
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.