Originally Posted by
Sotonsean
Considering that these flights were in the early hours of the day I'm assuming that the aircraft were remotely parked. If so where as I would have thought that the majority of stands were taken up by the regular overnighting aircraft.
Although I'm sure many of the Spanish fans didn't have much time to shop. Just out of interest but are the majority of the food and retail outlets in the departure lounge open 24/7.
Looking at the airport community app shows the majority were using Sat 1 gates 1-19 with a few using bussed gates 90-93.
Perhaps the based aircraft of Jet2/Tui/Titan/BA Cityflyer etc were remote parked until this morning and towed over to Sat 1 as required?