Cardiff: Rugby, Football and General Sport Flights & Charters

[Jerry]

Italy Six nations rugby charters 2019
Thursday 7/2/19
Air Explore 737? 09.00 departs
Thomas Cook A321 09.10 departs
Jet2 757 11.00 departs
Jet2 737 12.00 departs
Friday 8/2/19
Maleth Aero 733 departs 09.00
Jet2 737? departs 09.00
Jet2 757? departs 09.00
Flybe E175 departs 11.00 flybe will also operate there usual Saturday flight but this is extra.
Germania A319 departs 11.00
Sunday 10/2/19
Jet2 737? arrives 13.00
Jet2 757 arrives 13.35
Maleth Aero 733 arrives 13.45
Jet2 737? arrives 15.00
Thomas Cook A321 arrives 17.50
Maleth Aero 733 arrives 21.15
Flybe E175 arrives 23.30
Info sourced from South Wales Aviation Group and Cardiff Airport website all flights go to Rome FCO as far as l know.

 

[Elmdon80slad]

Are there no matches being played in cardiff?

E.

 

[Jerry]

Are there no matches being played in cardiff?

E.

This year it's England and Ireland at home both later on in the tournament.

 

[Cardiffbay]

Are there no matches being played in cardiff?

E.

Easy way to remember is wales play all the blue teams away one year and home the next.

 

[Foxlimayankee]

Am I right in thinking that apart from the team flight there were no French charters this year? France games home or away normally generate a fair few charters.

 

[Jerry]

Am I right in thinking that apart from the team flight there were no French charters this year? France games home or away normally generate a fair few charters.

Flybe put an extra flight on but that was it. When Wales play France in Cardiff that usually generates a lot of charters from all over France.

 

[Foxlimayankee]

That's surprising. For years away games in France and Ireland were very popular, with Italian away games popular but not generating as many charters. Home games against Italy attracted even less charters with Italian fans.

 

[Jerry]

I think with France now it's easier to get too by coach train and road that has given fans more options. Same with Scotland. Ireland does see a big airlift every year.

 

[Elmdon80slad]

Wales v Ireland at Cardiff would be good for flights no doubt.

E.

 

[geoff]

Germania which stopped flying last night, were due to operate a rugby charter to Rome on Friday, I wonder if a replacement airline can be found for the rugby fans?

 

[Jerry]

Fingers crossed theyll find one! Maybe Jet2 will step in?

 

[mathers_wales_uk]

It is ASL airlines who are the replacement for Germania.

 

[Jerry]

Looks like there will be a couple of charters for the Scotland game. All flights depart to and arrive from Edinburgh.
7/3/19
TUI Airways TOM8336 departs at 10am 737 8? non based aircraft.
Blue Islands SI573 departs at 16.00 ATR ???
8/3/19
TUI Airways TOM8400 departs at 09.00 737 8? non based aircraft
Maleth Aero MLT369 departs at 11.00 737 ???
Flybe BE584 departs at 12.45 Q400
10/3/19
Flybe BE583 arrives at 12.20 Q400
Maleth Aero MLT370 arrives at 13.15 737 ???
TUI Airways TOM8410 arrives at 13.15 737 8? non based
Blue Islands SI574 arrives at 13.30 ATR ???
TUI Airways TOM8420 arrives at 18.00 737 8? non based
Flybe BE585 arrives at 21.00 Q400
Flybe BE586 departs at 21.25 Q400

 

[Jerry]

Six nations Ireland flights 2019 (all arrivals are from Dublin)
14th March 2019
EI3298 Aer Lingus arrival 18:15
15th March 2019
EI3292 Aer Lingus arrvial 10:00
ENT513 Enter Air arrival 12:00
ABR490 ASL Ireland arrival 12:00
RE4400 Stobart Air arrival 12:20
EI3294 Aer Lingus arrival 13:45
FR835 Ryanair arrival 15:05
ABR495 ASL Ireland arrival 15:45
EI3290 Aer Lingus arrival 18:30
FR5554 Ryanair arrival 22:15
16th March 2019
EI3292 Aer Lingus arrival 07:05
FR835 Ryanair arrival 07:15
ABR492 ASL Ireland arrival 09:30
BE8004 Flybe arrival 11:00

 

[Jerry]

News

14 MARCH
Over 3,500 Irish rugby fans jet into Cardiff

Over the next three days, 50 extra flights will operate in and out of Wales’ national airport carrying over 3,500 excited Irish fans, thanks to scheduled and additional flights with our regular airline Flybe and special extra flights with Enter Air, Ryanair and Aer Lingus.
In total, over this year’s Guinness Six Nations tournament, more than 11,000 Welsh rugby fans flew through Cardiff to catch Wales in action at the ‘Blues away’ matches against Italy, France and Scotland.
Spencer Birns, Commercial Director at Cardiff Airport, said: “Large sporting events like the Guinness Six Nations are always an exciting time both for Wales and for Cardiff Airport.
“We’ve made many improvements to our customer experience recently so this will be an excellent opportunity to showcase these improvements to our Celtic cousins. We’ll be working as a team to prepare for the fans’ arrival and look forward to extending a warm Welsh welcome to our visitors from Ireland.”
https://www.cardiff-airport.com/news/2019/03/14/over-3-500-irish-rugby-fans-jet-into-cardiff/

 

[mathers_wales_uk]

Looks like the Aer Lingus flights are actually chartered by Stobart Aviation as they carry the STK callsign.

 

[Jerry]

Looks like the Aer Lingus flights are actually chartered by Stobart Aviation as they carry the STK callsign.

Some were onsale as ATR 72 flights so maybe those have been changed to Aer lingus?

 

[superking]

Some were onsale as ATR 72 flights so maybe those have been changed to Aer lingus?

Was always down as aer lingus aircraft chartered by Stobart. The ATR72 flights were a typo.

 

[Jerry]

Was always down as aer lingus aircraft chartered by Stobart. The ATR72 flights were a typo.

Interesting that Aer Lingus sold them through there website. Kind of a bit weird Aer Lingus aircraft operating for Stobart but selling through their own website.

 

[mathers_wales_uk]

This has been done for years especially when Stobart used to operate the schedule service themselves under the Aer Lingus Regional Brand.

I remember the days when we used to have the A320/A321/A330 using Stobart callsign then there would be RE flight numbers on the ATR72 which were charters.

As Stobart do not have their own reservation system any flight for general sale would be sold on the Aer Lingus website.

Gone are the days of the Airbus schedule flights with up to 4 ATR72 on the ground day stopping for charter. Rugby airliftbdays are not as fun as they used to be.