Champions League Final 2008 (Moscow)

[1station]

With the British invasion of Moscow to take place on the 21st May does anyone have details of charter flights from the UK?

[K.Whyjelly]

Unsubstantiated rumour going around that a bmi A330 will be doing the Moscow run

[DOOBIE]

A quick look shows Luton expecting the following

Tue 20th am
VKG B752 (presumbly the Air Greenland a/c)
FLT MD80
TRA B738 x 2 B737 x 1
BLE MD80
GSM B763
LTE A320

Tue 20th pm
AFL B763 TU54 A321

Wed 21st am
AAF A321 x 2
FUA B734
FIF B752
TTR B738 (any idea who this is?)

The inbounds are similar but also show an AEY B752

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[Warmtoast]

Didn't I read somewhere that all flights to Moscow for the Final were already booked / allocated and only available at rip-off prices?

A couple of days ago I was told that the best bet if you had a ticket for the match and to get you to the final on time would be to fly to Latvia (Riga) and onwards by relatively cheap train to Moscow.

Personally I'll stay at home and watch on the box!

[oversteer]

Or, fly to St Petersburg and get the train.

Hiring a car in Russia not advised! Unless you speak the language.

[Northern Hero]

MAN have -

Tue a.m. Atlant Soyuz TU154
Wed a.m. Transaero 742 x 2 & 735 x 1
All returning Thursday a.m. The Transaero's are showing as operating to LED
I'm sure there'll be more.

[AircraftOperations]

You sure you aren't talking about UEFA Cup Final with those Russian aircraft bringing in St Petersburg fans?


There are all sorts of aircraft due to fly from MAN to Moscow for the Champions League, but most of them are European airlines including several 747s.

[1station]

At least 15 sectors on 747's I have seen. New slot figures to be released tomorrow. Looking like upwards of 70 odd flights departing Manchester on the 20th/21st.

[rumair999]

747 regn SXDIE is planned to operate from MAN 20/21/22May

[1station]

As of noon Friday for the period 19th - 23rd May, 222 planed sectors equating to 111 turnarounds. Servisair and Flight Support seem to have the lions share with Aviance and Swissport as understudies. 27 of which are 747-200 or above these figures include certain aircraft making multiple appearances.

Operators include, Corsair, Air Finland, Air Via, Transaero, Air Slovakia, Dubrovnik Airlines, Flightline, Air Italy, Seagle Air, Iberworld, Swiftair, XL Airways, Monarch, Fly Globespan, Air Europa, CSA, Futura, Austrian, Aigle Azur, Jetairfly and Neos.

Slots are being applied for and handed back daily. Next update on Monday.

[girt big un]

flightline have two MD83 popping to Moscow ' .
one from LGW with Chelsea fans and the other from MAN with the reds . The volare unit may also pop up from MXP and op from MAN aswell just to add to the mix .. gonna be an interesting event !!!!! :)

[paul360m]

I have today booked to go to Moscow for the CL final - leaving Luton on 20th & returning 22nd. Package booked with Thomas Cook (who do all the official CL packages for Chelsea)

At the moment, we have no flight timings or know carrier but have been assured that it will be a Thomas Cook plane - i really dont fancy getting onto a dodgy Russian charter Tu-154 or similar so am really hoping that the flight will be operated by Thomas Cook.

I guess at this stage there's no way of checking??

Cheers

Paul

[paul360m]

I have received my itinerary today & am travelling on a HV flight at 14.05. I assume this means it will be a Transavia flight - dry!!

Anyone had any experience of them? Seem to have a nice modern fleet.

Thanks

Paul

[rumair999]

HV - you cant go wrong, cracking aircraft new with winglets great crew enjoy !

[UnderASouthernSky]

Whilst on crew positioning through MAN on Tuesday afternoon, I noticed the great looking Privatair 767 sitting there.

I thought it would probably be flying the Man U players over to Moscow in comfort, but later on realised that they were already in Moscow having flown out on Monday.

Is the Privatair aircraft flying the owners/directors or other rich types out to the match, or is it at MAN on other business?

[Mr @ Spotty M]

Directors, players wife's, girl friends and some officials flew out yesterday morning on a Monarch A321.:ok:

[donnlass]

Hi

With all the queries about planes flying out to Moscow, does anyone know ehat time roughly the planes will be flying back to Manchester? Would be especially interested in the United Team plane follwing success. Will be able to get out to AVP tomorrow but will probably have to check out teletext for inccoming flights.

[1station]

First scheduled arrival is 0350 in the morning but I am almost certain that will slip. All dependant on how efficent Moscow are at processing the flights their end. Plus looking at the weather forcast for Moscow they are forecasting fog late evening early morning which will almost certainly have an impact on the flow rate west bound.

Team rumoured to be back mid afternoon but no plans known as to what they are doing after arrival.

[1station]

It was in MAN to carry family members of the team out. Approx 30 pax on it, plenty of leg room I guess!!!!

[LGS6753]

Additional Luton flights to date have been:

EAF B73A (Several rotations) in OzJet livery
Transavia B738 (At least 2)
Blueline MD83 (2 rotations)
Air Slovakia 757
Air Slovakia 737
Aigle Azur A321
Futura 737
Air Finland 757
Neos 738

Also due were Premiair 757, LTE A320, Air Italy 757, XL France A320, Travel service 737 and Dubrovnik MD83, but not sure whether these materialized.

All planned to return tomorrow (Thurs) between 0230 and 1930.