Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
Hence my use of "not often", though I can't think of many European cities that are more than a 4 hour direct flight from the UK.
And a 4-hour flight equates to 2-3 days on the road, so the OP's point is valid - IMHO it's likely that the team's kit was also travelling on the flight.
You might be right and I don't want to derail the thread with a discussion how leading football teams send their kit and equipment to away games so I'll say no more than I line managed the lady who did all team travel arrangements incl booking the planes and it's not what we did! But enough from me.