England World Cup Flight
 

Ahoy!

Anyone know what time this is due to depart?

It it from Heathrow?

How do they select crew for this flight?

Is it a normal scheduled flight or private?

Looks like its out of LHR. Dont know Flight time, England team due to meet at hotel in Heartfordshire at 16.00 so would presume a early evening flight i.e between 19.00-21.00.

Would be good if someone could confirm flight time. I need an excuse to get away from the missus.

I believe it's VS 9983 LHR-JNB departing at 21.00

Anybody know who took the USA team & what plane it was?

Heard it was a 17hour flight!

Best Wishes

Adam

I guess the hotel in Hertfordshire will be Sopwell House in St. Albans?

Hopefully they have better luck than the poor Nigerians. Stuck in STN after there Luzair 767 (CS-TQI) had tech issues. I heard that the Nigerians refused to get back on it so an alternate aircraft was sourced. Anyone konw what the alternate was? I saw the Luzair 767 depart to Doncaster of all places yesterday afternoon.

I couldn't figure out why the Nigerians would end up in the UK between Nigeria and South Africa but apparently they've been on a training camp here!

flightmech-

it used to be sopwell house but i believe that's changed to the grove in watford.

US team went with SA, looking at the pictures it looks like a A340 to me.

vs j burg
 

is the a/c inquestion a b744?a340? what would be the flying time?would the a/c and crew stay down there for the duration??any replies would be great thnks:)

The US team arrived in South Africa on the scheduled SAA flight from Washington.. so far the only team to arrive on a chartered flight are the Australians, the rest have been on scheduled flights, the Germans are due to arrive this weekend on the first Lufthansa A380.

Italians are flying MXP-JNB on the 8th of June, aircraft positions back to FCO the next day :ok:

brs planespotter.....G VRED A346

Why would they (want to) do that?!!!!

Planemike

I assume you do not have a career in ops?:ugh:
At least if you did....i assume the airline went bust!!