Soccer Charters World Cup, Champions, Europa League, etc. Discussion Thread

InnsbruckFlyer · Tue Jun 12, 2018 2:44 pm

LH2018 landed just about 45 minutes ago at VKO.

Joelatbsl · Wed Jun 13, 2018 9:23 am

B757-200 SX-RFA positioned from St. Petersburg to Innsbruck after bringing the England team to Russia. Will it possibly pick up the Colombian team that stayed in Northern Italy? Kazan as its destination would actually fit the bill ...

Joelatbsl · Wed Jun 13, 2018 1:29 pm

Interesting news from Spain today with their manager Julen Lopetegui being silly enough to sign with Real Madrid while still in charge of the national team. Will the Wamos Air B747-400 that is due to fly out to Sochi tomorrow have space for his replacement?

Meanwhile, watch out for all the stuff heading to Moscow for the opening game, loads of Saudi B77Ws arriving with supporters already ...

JOEL

Angelovo · Wed Jun 13, 2018 1:34 pm

The Belgian Red Devils just landed at SVO under flight number SN2018 and with the 320 (OO-SNA) appropriately painted

tapairbus370 · Wed Jun 13, 2018 4:49 pm

Joelatbsl wrote:
Interesting news from Spain today with their manager Julen Lopetegui being silly enough to sign with Real Madrid while still in charge of the national team. Will the Wamos Air B747-400 that is due to fly out to Sochi tomorrow have space for his replacement?

Meanwhile, watch out for all the stuff heading to Moscow for the opening game, loads of Saudi B77Ws arriving with supporters already ...

JOEL

Beside some 777´s I saw a Jordan Aviation 332, flight JAV3523 from Riyhad (RUH) to Moscow (VKO).

I don´t know how many Saudia daily flight Between Saudi Arabia and Moscow are scheduled but I saw at least 4 only today, and until now.

Joelatbsl · Wed Jun 13, 2018 5:45 pm

There are only few scheduled flights from Saudi Arabia to Moscow, with Saudia's World Cup specials using flight numbers that look like scheduled flights, even though these routes from Riyadh and Jeddah to Vnukovo are just temporary. There should have been seven flights yesterday, four today and another one tomorrow.

The Azerbaijan A340-600 4K-AI08 is also in town already, surely brought in some VIPs for the opening game tomorrow.

JOEL

Joelatbsl · Wed Jun 13, 2018 9:55 pm

Now that all teams seem to be in Russia, the fans are arriving too. A load of Iran supporters arrived in St. Petersburg today on board an Iran Air Airbus A300-600, arriving from Tehran.

http://worldcupcharters.blogspot.com/20 ... -2018.html

tapairbus370 · Wed Jun 13, 2018 10:54 pm

It will be interesting, in terms of aircraft type variety, to see what the Iranian fans will use to get to Rússia.

Angelovo · Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:09 am

tapairbus370 wrote:
It will be interesting, in terms of aircraft type variety, to see what the Iranian fans will use to get to Rússia.

Mahan Air has for a couple of days already upgauged their daily IKA-VKO flight from the usual 310 to a 346. Presently a 343 and a 346 are on the way from IKA to LED bringing fans for tomorrow’s match against Morocco.

Angelovo · Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:14 am

tapairbus370 wrote:
Beside some 777´s I saw a Jordan Aviation 332, flight JAV3523 from Riyhad (RUH) to Moscow (VKO).

And there was a Gulf Air 320 from DMM to DME

Joelatbsl · Thu Jun 14, 2018 8:05 am

The first Egypt Air flight is currently on the way to Ekaterinburg with football supporters for the EGY vs. URU game. SU-GCS in Star Alliance colours has been used for this ...

tapairbus370 · Thu Jun 14, 2018 3:07 pm

Now lets wait for the final of the inaugural game and check flightradar24.....and all the others games too

Joelatbsl · Fri Jun 15, 2018 7:32 am

Big game in Sochi today, or as plane spotters would say, Wamos B747-400 vs. TAP Air Portugal A330. This is what the respective sides' fans arrived with yesterday ...

Joelatbsl · Fri Jun 15, 2018 10:34 am

The Switzerland vs. Brazil game in Rostov on Sunday attracts quite a few bizjets:

http://worldcupcharters.blogspot.com/20 ... -2018.html

Interestingly enough, many of them leave after dropping off their PAX, some even across the Black Sea to Trabzon, Turkey. Another destination popular for the parking appears to be Krasnodar.

Angelovo · Fri Jun 15, 2018 10:58 am

Also interesting was yesterday’s Iberia flight from MAD to KUF on an 332. First game in Samara is on Sunday, Cost Rica - Serbia.

Joelatbsl · Fri Jun 15, 2018 2:19 pm

It appears that they have used Madrid as a staging post on the way from Latin America to Russia. Alrosa Avia also did a charter flight from Madrid to Samara with one of their B737s yesterday.

Redwood839 · Fri Jun 15, 2018 2:22 pm

News around Latin America:

A broker company called Worldwide Charters in Canada has committed alleged fraud in 5 different countries (Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Colombia, Uruguay and Argentina) by having been prepaid for the charter of aircraft months in advance to transport thousands of fans to Russia from the countries named aboved.

In the situation in Costa Rica, 300 travelers were left stranded when the company cancelled two days before first a A340 and then a B777 to take fans non stop to Russia leaving travel agencies scrambling to find open seats to get fans that prepaid up to $11,000 to get to watch their teams.

Links in spanish:

http://www.mediotiempo.com/futbol/2018/ ... eccionados

https://www.nacion.com/puro-deporte/sel ... 3ZA/story/

https://www.nacion.com/el-pais/politica ... 2CE/story/

https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/ ... r-a-rusia/

Joelatbsl · Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:11 pm

Qatar Executive is fairly busy all around Russia this month. Global 6000 A7-CEF turned up right before the game in Yekaterinburg today and is now on its way down to the Black Sea Coast for the game in Sochi tonight, Portugal vs. Spain.

tapairbus370 · Fri Jun 15, 2018 4:55 pm

Thank you all you guys for keeping this thread alive.

Very interesting stuff being said here. (from my point of view).

I was expecting to see some charter flights operated by "old Russian machinery" but until now nothing.
Only from Iran we are getting some "different" stuff.

Well, we still have a month.

Angelovo · Fri Jun 15, 2018 5:55 pm

tapairbus370 wrote:
I was expecting to see some charter flights operated by "old Russian machinery" but until now nothing

Generally not much „old Russian machinery“ left, a handful of planes maybe.

I guess the Russian airlines are focusing on and busy shuttling the fans around inside Russia during the World Cup. In addition, it is the main holiday season, so not much spare capacity available.

SRQKEF · Fri Jun 15, 2018 8:45 pm

Many KEF-SVO flights today, both on FI and WW metal, including an appearance by newly delivered 753 TF-ISX in the new special livery for 100 years of Icelandic sovereignity:

I’d imagine many flights KEF-VOG and KEF-ROV for the other two games too.

Angelovo · Sat Jun 16, 2018 7:48 am

TUIfly 738 on the way GOT - NOJ.

And also interesting to note that the WAMOS 744, after having dropped the Spanish fans at AER, positioned to MRV (the city is called Mineralnye Vody, in English Mineral Water) for overnight parking and is now returning to AER to bring them home.

factsonly · Sat Jun 16, 2018 10:14 am

In addition to the national team charter services, regular scheduled flights to Russia are also enhanced, example:

Aeroflot operations on SVO-AMS-SVO is all A330 on 15 June 2018:

- SU 2550 SVO-AMS AIRBUS A330-200 Aeroflot VQ-BBG
- SU 2694 SVO-AMS AIRBUS A330-300 Aeroflot VQ-BEK
- SU 2192 SVO-AMS AIRBUS A330-200 Aeroflot VP-BLY

factsonly · Sun Jun 17, 2018 10:13 am

How about this special World Cup flight from Mexico - Moscow Domodedovo on Ethiopian B787:

- ET8509 Ethiopian Airlines
dep. TOLUCA 18:12 - DME MOSCOW ESTIMATED 14:20

GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCE: 10,805 KM

TYPE(B788) Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner REGISTRATION ET-AOO

https://www.flightradar24.com/ETH8509/1ccc870a

- 15 Jun 2018 Addis Ababa (ADD) Los Angeles (LAX) ET8504 Landed 03:15
- 16 Jun 2018 Los Angeles (LAX) Toluca (TLC) ET8508 Landed 15:19
- 16 Jun 2018 Toluca (TLC) Moscow (DME) ET8509 Estimated 14:21

TUSAA · Sun Jun 17, 2018 1:44 pm

Barcelona and Roma are playing a game in Dallas on July 31st. Will they fly in on charters or regular scheduled flights?

B752OS · Sun Jun 17, 2018 2:59 pm

It was noted that Peruvians bought over 50,000 tickets thus far, and it';s estimated that roughly 30,000 people have traveled from Peru to Russia, how the heck did that many of them get to Russia? I am guessing a lot of oversold flights from LIM to Europe.

tapairbus370 · Sun Jun 17, 2018 3:58 pm

factsonly wrote:
How about this special World Cup flight from Mexico - Moscow Domodedovo on Ethiopian B787:

- ET8509 Ethiopian Airlines
dep. TOLUCA 18:12 - DME MOSCOW ESTIMATED 14:20

GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCE: 10,805 KM

TYPE(B788) Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner REGISTRATION ET-AOO

https://www.flightradar24.com/ETH8509/1ccc870a

- 15 Jun 2018 Addis Ababa (ADD) Los Angeles (LAX) ET8504 Landed 03:15
- 16 Jun 2018 Los Angeles (LAX) Toluca (TLC) ET8508 Landed 15:19
- 16 Jun 2018 Toluca (TLC) Moscow (DME) ET8509 Estimated 14:21

Did he stay overnight to do the round trip?

Barcelona and Roma are playing a game in Dallas on July 31st. Will they fly in on charters or regular scheduled flights?

Tell us if you by chance finds out!!!

Joelatbsl · Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:30 am

Just very few England supporters out there it seems. An Aigle Azur A320 is currently on the way from Stansted to Volgograd for tonight's game against Tunisia ...

Joelatbsl · Tue Jun 19, 2018 7:06 am

Egypt playing hosts Russia in St Petersburg tonight, and quite predictably, there is once again a massive airlift from Cairo to Russia, this time also using quite a number of EgyptAir's A330s!

Joelatbsl · Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:43 am

While the World Cup is currently in full flow, the first few rounds of Champions League qualifying have been drawn yesterday. The preliminaries start as early as next week and from July on, there will be qualifying action around Europe just about every week. Surely some interesting charter flight arrangements coming up there too.

Meanwhile, Uruguayan fans are arriving in Rostov from Moscow today. They seem to have some sort of base camp in the capital ...

JOEL

artofzen · Wed Jun 20, 2018 9:00 am

tapairbus370 wrote:
tapairbus370 wrote:
The Iranian national team is already in Russia!

Can anyone tell how it traveled?

I know there´s a blog with that informations but....maybe it´s just me but it´s full of pop-ups and, believe me, some malware too!!!

So, does anyone knows?

And any other information regarding other teams?

Thank you.

I believe the Iranian team travelled in a A310, does anyone have any details?

Iran used ATA Airlines A320 in special livery for the event https://twitter.com/aerospacetalk/statu ... 4397353985 It was the first team to arrive in Russia and flew into Moscow.

artofzen · Wed Jun 20, 2018 9:36 am

^ Vnukovo Airport.

tapairbus370 · Wed Jun 20, 2018 8:52 pm

Hello,

just a few flights I saw while checking flightradar24 the last days,

Corendon B738 TC-COR ROV - ZRH (Rostov on Don) - Surelly Brazil - Switzerland game
Swiss A320 HB-JLQ ROV - ZRH - the same

Maleth Aero B73? ????? Moscow - Berlin (don´t have the details) - Germany - Mexico

Grafair Pilatus PC-12 SE-MIX GOJ - BMA (Nizhny Novogorod - Stockholm) Sweden - South Korea
BRA (Braathens Regional) Avro RJ100 SE-RJI GOJ-BMA (this one did at least 3 flights back from GOJ one following the other) Sweden - South Korea
BRA (Braathens Regional) Avro RJ100 SE-DSX GOJ-BMA Sweden - South Korea
TUI B738 OO-JPT GOJ - GOT (this also did at least 2 return flights from GOJ) Sweden - South Korea
Maleth Aero B735 9H-MAC GOJ - ARN Sweden - South Korea
Czech Airlines A319 OK-NEN
SAS A320 LN-RGL and SE-ROA (GOJ - ??? (but swedish destination, don´t remember and can´t find the data))

also I saw a Danish air Transport ATR 42-500 OY-RUO from GOJ - CPH , i think it´s Sweden - South Korea game related, not sure.

I also saw some LOT´s 738 from Moscow (SVO) to WAW sure Poland - Senegal related and also related to this game a Sprintair SAAB 340 SP-KPR,doing SVO - WAW

well, for sure there where a lot more than this but I wanted to share this one´s with you.

Also.....I was expecting some more charters from other locations such as South Korea, or even from Tunisia but.....no.

Joelatbsl · Thu Jun 21, 2018 9:01 am

There were three Tunisair A320s in Volgograd for the England vs. Tunisia game the other day and just one commercial charter flight from England, an Aigle Azur A320 from Stansted.

Both SAS A320neos that went to Nizhny Novgorod did round trips from/to Stockholm. One of them is on football duty again now, having just arrived in Samara with Danish supporters for today's game Denmark vs. Australia.

Currently on the way to Kaliningrad is a Helvetic Fokker 100 with Swiss supporters for the Serbia-Switzerland game tomorrow.

Joelatbsl · Fri Jun 22, 2018 10:19 am

Belgium is playing in Moscow tomorrow, against Tunisia. For that game, Brussels Airlines not only sent their usual several A319s and A320s, but for once also an A330-300:

http://worldcupcharters.blogspot.com/20 ... -2018.html

Joelatbsl · Sun Jun 24, 2018 7:10 pm

For tomorrow's last game of Egypt Volgograd has been chosen as the location and somehow the access to VOG once again seems to be more difficult than to other places around Russia. Just one A330-200 of Egypt Air expected at VOG to pick up some fans at the end of this World Cup journey for Egypt. A journey that has ended in a first round exit obviously ...

AirbusOnly · Sun Jun 24, 2018 7:20 pm

On Friday WOW Air flew with Airbus A 321 TF-SON and Iceland with Boeing 757 TF-ISK nonstop from Keflavik to Volgograd. TF-SON later repositioned to Tallinn.

Joelatbsl · Sun Jun 24, 2018 8:12 pm

Didn't the WOWair go to Vilnius? At least the radar data suggests so. The Icelandair in the meantime went to "nearby" Mineralnye Vody for parking ...

Joelatbsl · Mon Jun 25, 2018 7:38 am

Royal Air Maroc B737-800s CN-ROU and CN-RGM are currently in Kaliningrad, having arrived with Moroccan fans from Casablanca for today's game vs. Spain. Their tournament may be over, but at least some still traveled to Russia ...

http://worldcupcharters.blogspot.com/20 ... -2018.html

AirbusOnly · Mon Jun 25, 2018 2:25 pm

Currently WOW Air flight WW8005 is flying vom KEF to ROV (Rostov on Don), aircraft is Airbus A 321 TF-KID. But the destination is shown as "N/A" at FR 24
https://www.flightradar24.com/WOW8005/1ce5be57

In approx. one hour, at 2.40 pm Icelandic time FI1460 is scheduled from KEF to ROV also.

@ Joelatbsl: of course you are right....TF-SON flew to Vilnius not to Tallinn... my mistake

Joelatbsl · Mon Jun 25, 2018 2:38 pm

Meanwhile, Russian metal is not completely dead yet. Amongst the bizjets on the ground in Samara today during the Uruguay-Russia match is Tu-204 RA-64010 that has arrived rather shortly before the game from Moscow VKO.

JOEL

AirbusOnly · Mon Jun 25, 2018 3:47 pm

Iceland Air B 757 TF-ISF now on her way from KEF to ROV:

https://www.flightradar24.com/ICE1460/1ce60eb6

Joelatbsl · Mon Jun 25, 2018 3:53 pm

AirbusOnly wrote:

In approx. one hour, at 2.40 pm Icelandic time FI1460 is scheduled from KEF to ROV also.

FI1460 is now about to get on the move at KEF, B757-200 TF-ISF it is.

JOEL

Joelatbsl · Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:19 pm

TF-KID is on the way north from Rostov again, possibly towards the Baltic states again. TF-ISF will go to MRV again, just like its Icelandair counterpart for the last game in Volgograd.

Meanwhile, talking about Volgograd, Egypt Air's A330-200 SU-GCH is getting ready for the trip back home to Cairo.

AirbusOnly · Tue Jun 26, 2018 6:34 am

TF-KID "parked" in Vilnius also like TF-SON did before....but afaik there is also a maintenance company....WOW several times send frames on empty flights to Vilnius too...

Joelatbsl · Tue Jun 26, 2018 6:58 am

That actually came to my mind as well and it seems quite a clever thing to do. Not sure whether they do maintenance on B757s in Minerlnye Vody though ...

Meanwhile, the fairly long list of Air Serbia and Aviolet flights from BEG to SVO has been narrowed to just the one flight tomorrow, to be operated by an Air Serbia A319.

Kilopond · Tue Jun 26, 2018 9:50 am

ENT545 ZAG-ROV B738 SP-ENT
ADR3694 ZAG-ROV A319 S5-AAR

Both flights will show up at fr24 only by searching the a/c registration.

Joelatbsl · Tue Jun 26, 2018 10:18 am

Thanks for the heads-up call, that list for the Croatia-Iceland game looks quite nice now, with several different airlines popping in at Rostov-Platov over these few days now ...

tapairbus370 · Tue Jun 26, 2018 11:01 am

I was hoping for some long distance charters for games involving teams from South America or Australia or even Japan but it´s been a little disaponting, maybe in the next fase of the world cup.

Can anyone confirm a charter from Iran last wednesday to the Iran - Spain game, using a TU134?

Joelatbsl · Tue Jun 26, 2018 11:47 am

Just found out about some badass longhaul flights from Mexico, involving Azerbaijan Airlines and one of their A340-500s, all the way from Toluca to Moscow Domodedovo. Probably the fans then flew on from DME to their final destination, because to my knowledge, Mexico have so far not been scheduled to play in Moscow.

Not sure about that Tu-134, seen that too though. There is a possibility that it had something to do with the game, but I am fairly sure the Western teams would not have gone for such charter equipment ...

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