Hello,

I searched the forum and couldn´t find any thread like this, there are a few regarding special events.

So I thought that could be interesting to have a thread where we can have special flights, charters, etc, of teams and supporters flying to the main football events, European or not and of course the World cup.

I´ll start:

Europa League Final, 16/05/18, Lyon, Marseille - Atlético Madrid

flights I could see on flightradar24, all bound to Madrid


PVG7996 - Privilege Style - B752 - EC-HDS
UX886 - Air Europa - B738 - EC-MUZ
UX2003 - Air Europa - A332 - EC-JQG
UX972 - Air Europa - B738 - EC-LTM
ENT532 - Enter Air - B738 - SP-ENW
ENT5684 - Enter Air - B738 - SP-ENL
ENT545 - Enter Air - B738 - SP-ESB
VY1236 - Vueling - A320 - EC-MGE
TVS2485 - Smart Wings - B738 - OK-TVJ
TVS3567 - Smart Wings - B738 - OK-TSE
MLT327 - Maleth Aero - ???? - I supose it was a B737-??? by their site but don´t know which.

Some of this may be regular flights but they are here because they left Lyon (LYS) just about the same time as all the others or in a short period of time.

So I hope that there are other guys curious about this as I am and that we can exchange our findings in this thread, specialy knowing that the World Cup is coming and I bet air transportation will be widely used, and , who knows, with some "rare" airframes.


PS: The Liverpool team used a Gainjet B734, SX-ATF, flight GNJ74, to fly from their home city to Kiev for tomorrow´s Champion League Final.

Thank you

From FR24, the plane carrying Real Madrid to Kiev:
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flig ... 0#117c7a79

PS946 (MAD-KBP) being upgauged to a 763 for tomorrow (and 29th):
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ps946

And Vueling flight VY7591 for tomorrow from MAD
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/vy7591

Haven't find anything from Liverpool (or any UK airport), though, that's out of ordinary.

Already discussed

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1393235&p=20426819

Lots of out of the ordinary flights from LPL

Yes GTC64 it's already been discussed but that thread is just for the final, so, instead of opening a thread for each big event, why not concentrate things?
So that, for example, in the world cup there's no need to open a new thread for every important game.
Having said this I hope this thread is not short lived.

This might help. Many flights departing from MAD to KBP over night now to make use of the time difference and the distance between Spain and Ukraine:

http://championsleaguecharters.blogspot ... -2018.html

JOEL

@joelatbsl

Thanks a lot, it helps indeed, more than 83 flights....wow.

I knew this blog/site but some time ago it was full of.....let's call it bad links with some virus aggregated, so I avoid to enter it.

It's gonna be interesting to check flightradar some hours after the game.


Anyway, thank you.

Hello,

does anyone knows how the Brazil national football team traveled to England?

They´re preparing the world cup there.

More, does anyone have knowledge of any other national team that already left their countries and how they traveled? Any special charters?

tapairbus370 wrote:

Hello,

does anyone knows how the Brazil national football team traveled to England?

They´re preparing the world cup there.

More, does anyone have knowledge of any other national team that already left their countries and how they traveled? Any special charters?

Brazil’s team chartered Air X’s VIP A343, flew GIG-LON (unsure which airport) yesterday. Registration was 9H-BIG.

reffado wrote:

tapairbus370 wrote:

Hello,

does anyone knows how the Brazil national football team traveled to England?

They´re preparing the world cup there.

More, does anyone have knowledge of any other national team that already left their countries and how they traveled? Any special charters?

Brazil’s team chartered Air X’s VIP A343, flew GIG-LON (unsure which airport) yesterday. Registration was 9H-BIG.

They flew to STN as AXY2709

Here is a link to their route:
https://planefinder.net/flight/AXY2709/time/2018-05-27T17:45:00#

The Colombian national team flew from BOG to MXP on an Avianca 787 on Saturday (5/26) - AVA270

Thank you all

Let´s wait for more teams!!

SAA A340-600 ZS-SNC was doing a footy charter today with Liverpool fans to Kiev for the CL-finale tomorrow.

The Frankfurt flight is usually sitting on the airport all day waiting for the return flight in the evening, but today they used the time for a quick little FRA-LPL-KBP-FRA flight. Assume something similar on Sunday bringing the guys back?

Also: FlightRadar showing two SAA A330's into Kiev today. One from LHR and the other from LPL

Balerit wrote:

SAA A340-600 ZS-SNC was doing a footy charter today with Liverpool fans to Kiev for the CL-finale tomorrow.

The Frankfurt flight is usually sitting on the airport all day waiting for the return flight in the evening, but today they used the time for a quick little FRA-LPL-KBP-FRA flight. Assume something similar on Sunday bringing the guys back?

Also: FlightRadar showing two SAA A330's into Kiev today. One from LHR and the other from LPL

Some extra money is always welcome.

Balerit wrote:

SAA A340-600 ZS-SNC was doing a footy charter today with Liverpool fans to Kiev for the CL-finale tomorrow.

The Frankfurt flight is usually sitting on the airport all day waiting for the return flight in the evening, but today they used the time for a quick little FRA-LPL-KBP-FRA flight. Assume something similar on Sunday bringing the guys back?

Also: FlightRadar showing two SAA A330's into Kiev today. One from LHR and the other from LPL

They indeed did the same on Sunday, flying FRA-KBP-LPL-FRA before returning to JNB.

The Argentina team is on its way to Spain over night now, using Air X' A340-300 9H-BIG from EZE to BCN, arriving in Barcelona at 15.30h ...

http://worldcupcharters.blogspot.com/20 ... ament.html

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.

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?


The portuguese team, one of their adversaries in the first phase of the tournament, is traveling right now to Zukhovski, ZIA, from Lisbon in a Air Charter X A340-300



Any other teams traveling the next days or already there, in Russia?

tapairbus370 wrote:

Any other teams traveling the next days or already there, in Russia?

The Icelandic team is departing in an hour direct from KEF to Gelendzhik (GDZ, their base in Russia) aboard an Icelandair 757. Flight number is FI1486. Live stream here of when they arrived at the terminal, it should resume once they board later on:

http://fotbolti.net/news/09-06-2018/b-i ... -russlands

SRQKEF wrote:

The Icelandic team is departing in an hour direct from KEF to Gelendzhik (GDZ, their base in Russia) aboard an Icelandair 757. Flight number is FI1486. Live stream here of when they arrived at the terminal, it should resume once they board later on:

http://fotbolti.net/news/09-06-2018/b-i ... -russlands

Team photo, in the background is 752 TF-FIA with the “Official Airline of the Icelandic National Team” sticker:

https://mobile.twitter.com/elvargeir/st ... 8488408064

SRQKEF wrote:

The Icelandic team is departing in an hour direct from KEF to Gelendzhik (GDZ, their base in Russia) aboard an Icelandair 757. Flight number is FI1486. Live stream here of when they arrived at the terminal, it should resume once they board later on:

http://fotbolti.net/news/09-06-2018/b-i ... -russlands

I will be following them in Flightradar24.

Good luck to them, hope we meet them at the final


Anymore teams flying to Russia today?

Any idea how the German National Team will fly?

Some more photos from Icelands' departure this morning:

http://m.fotbolti.net/news/09-06-2018/m ... -russlands

InnsbruckFlyer wrote:

Any idea how the German National Team will fly?

No, we´ll have to wait until June 12th to find out.

Apparently France isn't traveling to Russia until Tuesday.

An interesting one to track flight wise will be Uruguay as they held camp in Montevideo and played a friendly vs Uzbekistan down there. They won't have a single game on European soil before traveling to Russia.

Anyone know about the USMNT?

The Saudi team arrived in LED today. They flew in a specially painted SV 777:

The Argentinian national team flew yesterday from Barcelona to Moscow (DME) in a Aeronexus Corporate Boeing 767-300 (ZS-NEZ) with Rolling Stones titles in it.

tapairbus370 wrote:

InnsbruckFlyer wrote:

Any idea how the German National Team will fly?

No, we´ll have to wait until June 12th to find out.

Flying out on 12 June with Lufthansa on an A321, from FRA to VKO.

JOEL

Swiss National team on their way right now on ZRH-KUF LX8910 HB-IOO (321)

The French team is already in Russia, flew Gainjet 737.

MIAFLLPBIFlyer wrote:

Apparently France isn't traveling to Russia until Tuesday.

An interesting one to track flight wise will be Uruguay as they held camp in Montevideo and played a friendly vs Uzbekistan down there. They won't have a single game on European soil before traveling to Russia.

Uruguay used this huge classy private 777 to go to Russia.
It has place for 88 seats, dining room and bar.

Crystal Luxury Air B777-200LR

I'm 95% sure Mexico National team flew from Copenhagen to Moscow Sheremetyevo on Aeroflot flight 2659

Found this picture on Twitter: https://twitter.com/miseleccionmx/statu ... 3282049025

Before this, they flew from Mexico City to Amsterdam on AM flight 25.

Greetings.

The Peruvian team arrived in Moscow, apparently from Sweden (Gothenburg), after a friendly game a couple of days ago (0-0). No idea where the plane came from.


I am so excited.............

The Portuguese Football Association went all in, chartered the luxurious A340 from AirX Charters (9H-BIG) and slapped some stickers on it.

faucett wrote:

The Peruvian team arrived in Moscow, apparently from Sweden (Gothenburg), after a friendly game a couple of days ago (0-0). No idea where the plane came from.


I am so excited.............

I believe that’s 9H-MAC from Oryx Jet out of stansted. My friend was one of the cabin crew on the flight!

xaapb wrote:

I'm 95% sure Mexico National team flew from Copenhagen to Moscow Sheremetyevo on Aeroflot flight 2659

Found this picture on Twitter: https://twitter.com/miseleccionmx/statu ... 3282049025

Before this, they flew from Mexico City to Amsterdam on AM flight 25.

Greetings.

Well I was wrong, the Mexico National team actually flew on a TUI Boeing 737


Greetings

Another team to travel to Russia tomorrow is Sweden, flying with SAS from Gothenburg to Gelendzhik.

JOEL

xaapb wrote:

xaapb wrote:

I'm 95% sure Mexico National team flew from Copenhagen to Moscow Sheremetyevo on Aeroflot flight 2659

Found this picture on Twitter: https://twitter.com/miseleccionmx/statu ... 3282049025

Before this, they flew from Mexico City to Amsterdam on AM flight 25.

Greetings.

Well I was wrong, the Mexico National team actually flew on a TUI Boeing 737


Greetings

Wow, quite a contrast to some of the luxury widebodies flying the South American teams!

Nvm.

Another team to travel today is Senegal, from their training base in Austria towards Russia. They fly from Salzburg to Kaluga with B737-500 LY-KLJ.

JOEL

The German National Team with fly with D-AISQ, an A321 named 'Lindau', painted in the Fanhansa livery. Flight LH2018 will take off at 1300 CET from EDDF.



InnsbruckFlyer

Joelatbsl wrote:

Another team to travel today is Senegal, from their training base in Austria towards Russia. They fly from Salzburg to Kaluga with B737-500 LY-KLJ.

JOEL

Thank you @Joelatbsl .

By any chance do you know how they flew from Senegal to Europe? I´m guessing commercial flight?

England are flying today, usually from LTN?

InnsbruckFlyer wrote:

The German National Team with fly with D-AISQ, an A321 named 'Lindau', painted in the Fanhansa livery. Flight LH2018 will take off at 1300 CET from EDDF.



InnsbruckFlyer

"LH2018" is on the move:
https://www.flightradar24.com/DLH2018/11b2f5bf

andrejcheck wrote:

Uruguay used this huge classy private 777 to go to Russia.
It has place for 88 seats, dining room and bar.

Crystal Luxury Air B777-200LR

Apparently things are going very well in Uruguay, huh?

Toni_ wrote:

The Portuguese Football Association went all in, chartered the luxurious A340 from AirX Charters (9H-BIG) and slapped some stickers on it.

Isn't it the very same plane that brought Brazilian team from GIG to LHR a couple days ago?

It's surely all about logistics, but I personally like the fact that Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and Germany are supported by their countries' flag-carrier, even with special liveries. Guess, TAP, Iberia, Air France or British aren't so keen to be part of this "business"?

BA777 wrote:

England are flying today, usually from LTN?

Would they not now go from either BHX or EMA due to the close proximity with St Georges Park?

Edit: They're on Gainjet B757-200 SX-RFA. They are routing BHX-LED.

tapairbus370 wrote:

Joelatbsl wrote:

Another team to travel today is Senegal, from their training base in Austria towards Russia. They fly from Salzburg to Kaluga with B737-500 LY-KLJ.

JOEL

Thank you @Joelatbsl .

By any chance do you know how they flew from Senegal to Europe? I´m guessing commercial flight?

It might just as well be the case that they assembled in Europe already. It would not be uncommon for a Senegal team to have a camp in France, with so many players based in France and/or having strong French connections.

JOEL

ojjunior wrote:

Toni_ wrote:

The Portuguese Football Association went all in, chartered the luxurious A340 from AirX Charters (9H-BIG) and slapped some stickers on it.

Isn't it the very same plane that brought Brazilian team from GIG to LHR a couple days ago?

Yes indeed. The very same plane also brought the Argentina team & staff from Buenos Aires to Barcelona where they were in camp before traveling to Russia.

JOEL