Vueling Champions League flights

[TheLocalYokel]

Many thanks for all that, Severn.

Going to take a slice of BRS's night movements quota.

https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/~/media/files/brs/about-us/night-flying.ashx?la=en

I smiled when I read the response to your posting these details on another aviation web site: in effect, it was 'my black dog is blacker than your black dog'.

 

[superking]

How they going to get them all over to Cardiff.Apart from booking every coach for miles around .Unless a shuttle service to temple meads and put them on trains to get over there. Any one any ideas ??

 

[Jerry]

I'm guessing that the coach companies are going to be extremely busy! Can't see any other way. Does anyone know if BRS will have a dedicated coach park for them?

 

[kraktoa]

How they going to get them all over to Cardiff.Apart from booking every coach for miles around .Unless a shuttle service to temple meads and put them on trains to get over there. Any one any ideas ??

More than 300 coaches are to be parked in the staff car park. Police will be escorting fans to the coaches on the main boulevard. Its going to be a logistic nghtmare as these large coaches have to navigate the roundabout by the old terminal. Not going to be easy.all staff have been moved to Silver Zone car park. They will be bussed in. Shift changes could be a problem if the coaches block the main access road.

 

[kraktoa]

Many thanks for all that, Severn.

Going to take a slice of BRS's night movements quota.

https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/~/media/files/brs/about-us/night-flying.ashx?la=en

I smiled when I read the response to your posting these details on another aviation web site: in effect, it was 'my black dog is blacker than your black dog'.

TLY.....is the quota all just on paper? Is anyone counting?

 

[Sierra3]

In very rough terms / back of a fag packet calculations that 27 arrivals on Sat. at say average 200 PAX each total approx. 5500 PAX, maybe call it 6000. At about 60 PAX per coach that's 100 coaches. Am I missing something?

Are EZY or RYR scheduling additional flights for MAD or anywhere else in Spain that day?

The Stadium seats about 75000, so guessing Real Madrid will get maybe 25000 tickets, that boils down to a lot of fans coming from somewhere else, even after allowing for BRS' Friday flights and a few direct into CWL from Madrid.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

TLY.....is the quota all just on paper? Is anyone counting?

It's taken very seriously and returns are included in the airport's annual monitoring report.

The below link leads to the 2015 report - the latest published. It includes all sorts of other information as well as night quotas results for that year (at para 12).

https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/about-us/environment

Go to the Environmental Performance heading in the middle of the page and click on Annual Monitoring Report.

In very rough terms / back of a fag packet calculations that 27 arrivals on Sat. at say average 200 PAX each total approx. 5500 PAX, maybe call it 6000. At about 60 PAX per coach that's 100 coaches. Am I missing something?

Are EZY or RYR scheduling additional flights for MAD or anywhere else in Spain that day?

The Stadium seats about 75000, so guessing Real Madrid will get maybe 25000 tickets, that boils down to a lot of fans coming from somewhere else, even after allowing for BRS' Friday flights and a few direct into CWL from Madrid.

Some Madrid flights are going into Cardiff.

However, I suspect that many Real Madrid supporters will fly into London and other airports (BHX for example) or use Eurostar or even cross-channel ferries. These would be people coming 'under their own steam' in the main, rather than with parties or on chartered flights.

Real Madrid is a global brand and they have followers all around the world some of whom will go to the Final, so they are not all coming from the Madrid area itself. Lots of bizjets scheduled too many of which are going to airports other than BRS and CWL.

 

[Jerry]

Are EZY or RYR scheduling additional flights for MAD or anywhere else in Spain that day?

The only extra flight by either of those that i can see is a flight by Ryanair from MAD on the 3rd. Though many of their flights are sold out. Both airlines either seem happy with sold out flights or don't have the spare aircraft to put on extra.

The Stadium seats about 75000, so guessing Real Madrid will get maybe 25000 tickets, that boils down to a lot of fans coming from somewhere else, even after allowing for BRS' Friday flights and a few direct into CWL from Madrid

A lot will also go through BRS and LHR and also come via hubs like AMS.

 

[Jerry]

Looking at LHR and on the Friday 2nd Iberia has 7 flights into LHR, IB Express has 2 to LGW. On Saturday 3rd IB has 8 into LHR while IB Express has 2 into LGW. No doubt many of them will be wide body aircraft as well.

 

[kraktoa]

The first few flights from Madrid are due in on Thu morning. Let the Jamboree begin.

 

[kraktoa]

Already some discrepancies between the published mayfly and the airport website arrivals board for tomorrow friday 2nd June. Some Madrid flights are not showing on the website

 

[Jerry]

Already some discrepancies between the published mayfly and the airport website arrivals board for tomorrow friday 2nd June. Some Madrid flights are not showing on the website

Maybe they consolidated some flights onto bigger aircraft?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Already some discrepancies between the published mayfly and the airport website arrivals board for tomorrow friday 2nd June. Some Madrid flights are not showing on the website

Maybe they consolidated some flights onto bigger aircraft?

FR24 shows two Vueling flights from MAD that landed at 0758 and 0828 this morning. Neither is shown on the BRS website arrivals page.

The BRS website arrivals/departures pages are not always one hundred per cent reliable. They sometimes miss regular flights and rarely if ever show incoming diversions for example.

Currently the BRS website arrivals page showing a long list of arrivals in the early hours of Saturday morning plus the two Iberia arrivals this evening.

Addendum (1145 2.6.17)

Checking the MAD website pages board it confirms the departure of the two Vuelings that landed at BRS this morning and also shows the lunchtime MAD-BRS Vueling with a delay which is now a 1344 arrival at BRS.

The two Iberia 320s shown on Mayfly as arriving BRS early evening are not shown on the MAD departures pages but they are on the BRS arrivals page. The late evening Vueling from BCN is shown on the BCN departure pages but not on the BRS arrivals page.

So missing from the Mayfly projections are the unnamed B733 at 1025 (perversely, as it doesn't appear to have operated, shown on the BRS arrivals page - as CBX7801 but with no details of its arrival), and the two evening Iberia A320s. Mayfly is also showing a number of bizjets (unusually because bizjets don't normally feature on Mayfly) but none of these is shown on either the BRS, MAD or FR24 arrival/departure pages (would not expect them to be).

The lesson seems to be for anyone keen on seeing these aircraft at BRS is to go to the airport and wait to see what turns up. Clearly the BRS and MAD websites are not completely reliable when it comes to what is and what is not operating.

 

[kraktoa]

Its a great spectacle today. Big corporations and beer company sponsors have laid out stalls, portaloos, fancybranded cars. Lots of stuff.

I saw some luminaries too. From world of footy, pre 66 to now.

Football and otherwise. Some i did not recognise but the spanish obviously did.

Their big brother, strictly, blah blah celebrities that i did not recognise but lots of fans were taking selfies with.

I just wanted to go home.

 

[kraktoa]

One of the big ones. Anyone recognise

 

[Jerry]

One of the big ones. Anyone recognise

Privilege Style a Spanish charter firm based out of MAD and PMI.

 

[kraktoa]

Is that a 767

 

[Jerry]

Is that a 767

Yep 767 300er

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I live about seven miles to the east of BRS and saw several visiting aircraft from my garden mid morning today. One was a Wamos A330 which when I checked with the BRS arrivals page carried an Air Europa flight number. I also saw a Vueling A320 (not shown on BRS website arrivals page) and a Nostrum CRJ (900 or 1000?). That seemed to be more or less the end of the football flights although I noted that a Ryanair came in after the Nostrum from Madrid.

Most of the football aircraft seem to have arrived in the early hours (from 0300). Even more seem to be returning in the wee small hours of Sunday.

 

[forest1979]

Looking at flight radar this morning it looked non stop between bristol and Madrid from the early hours through to about 11.00am. At least 4 A330's (air europa) from what I could see. Iberia, Iberia express and vuelling making up the main of all the other traffic...
Surely today must have gone down as one if bristols busiest ever days?
I did note that the arrivals list didn't seem to note them all, not sure why.
Between 01.30 and around 04.30 am there are 25 departing flights to Madrid. Where are they all going to park with Bristols normal traffic?
Sure hope some video footage is uploaded of some of the arrivals..
Final question from me.. other than a couple of larger aircraft from Madrid that couldn't I guess use Bristol, was it pretty much a Spain Italy split between Cardiff and Bristol?