Celtic Supporters Fly in to Seville
When Celtic and Oporto kick off at the UEFA Cup Final in Seville on the 21st May, the vast majority of Celtic supporters will have flown to Seville with Britannia. The Sales department has secured a contract to move the largest number of football supporters ever from one club, operating 15 flights on a mix of 757, and 767 aircraft. Due to the size of Seville airport and limited facilities, Britannia will operate flights in to Faro, Malaga, Jerez as well as Seville, with supporters being coached to and from the game. Good luck to Celtic from everybody at Britannia
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Seen on the BY website – adds to the Corsair list of a/c! – wonder if Astraeus will be flying you??? :rolleyes:
By: Ren Frew - 13th May 2003 at 11:59
Originally posted by dan330
We all know the Champions League final is in Manchester and an airport that size is struggling to cope!
Glasgow Airport resembled a car park for executive jets during last year’s Champions League final. Every last spare piece of airfield was taken up with something or other.
By: Ren Frew - 13th May 2003 at 11:57
According to The Sunday Mail Rod Stewart has chartered a private jet, leaving Stansted on the morning of the game.
Also in attendance in Seville will be Bono, Westlife, Billy Connolly, Tony Roper, Jack McConnell, Jim Kerr, John Higgins and Rhona Cameron to name but a few.
Rod’s reported to have paid £56k for the jet hire, and knowing his well publicised thriftiness this is probably all he could hire an EZY 737 for at short notice. He’s probably charging his mates for seats !
Ronnie Wood once described him as being “tight as two coats of paint”
By: skycruiser - 13th May 2003 at 11:40
I have just spoken to WYSIWYG and he is operating down to Seville as well. Looks like a lot of fans will be travelling.
Sky.
By: Bhoy - 13th May 2003 at 02:36
Quien es el masn en el negro?
it’s pretty much the same thing… 😉 LOL
Anyway… does Chick need a phrasebook? I thought he spent most of his time abroad checking up opposition teams, anyway (how many times has he been to Porto in the last month? going by the amount of interviews he’s had on Sportscene, it’s at least 4 seperate trips.) That’s when he’s not hanging out with his pal, Rod, in LA.
talking of whom, I hear Billy Connoly’s flying in from his new movie set in New Zealand for the game, is Rod going? surely he won’t be missing this one…
By: Ren Frew - 13th May 2003 at 02:26
I’ll give Cheeko the phrase book Bhoy, What’s Spanish for “Who’s the guy sponsored by Specsavers ? “
By: Bhoy - 13th May 2003 at 02:09
9 days to go, and the first 3’000 of the largest mass migration in Football history have already arrived in Seville from Glasgow, acording to the Herald.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/13-5-19103-0-18-16.html No mention of what aircraft was used to fly them over, though.
PS, Ren… gonnae get Chick to use the third bottom phrase at some stage from the technical area during the game? 😉
By: Ren Frew - 12th May 2003 at 15:55
Like the phrasebook Bhoy, Chic Young’s got his at the ready (lol)
By: Bhoy - 12th May 2003 at 15:21
Even the broadsheets are now talking about a hundred thousand travelling…
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,953476,00.html
Anyway, I’ve looked out my phrasebook, and anyone going to Seville, listen out for these phrases… 😉
Envenenamiento de alcohol… Donde est el hospital?
He gastado todo mi dinero
Quien es el masn en el negro?
Usted mirar “The Bill” cuando estamos en Sevilla.
Por favor no se lo cuentes a mi mujer
By: Bhoy - 11th May 2003 at 23:37
Re: Britannia for Celtic flights
Originally posted by EGNM
wonder if Astraeus will be flying you??? :rolleyes:
Only as far as Cardiff…
Original estimates were for 50’000 Celtic fans converging on Seville, so I dare say there’s a fair few planes involved in transporting them, although, the last figure I heard was more like 100’000… (despite the ground’s capacity being only 52’000, and 16’000 tickets going to Portuguese fans).
That’ll teach UEFA to award Euro 2008 to Austria/Switzerland because there wasn’t enough passion for football in Scotland…
Anyway, I have been looking at options of getting down myself, but the size of Seville Airport isn’t helping, the only avaliable flight on the day is AF from Orly, but for some reason I can’t actually get a flight back, so it’s not on… having said that, I might try and meet up with a mate who’s driving down for the game, with what must be the weirdest route possible… Glasgow-Stranraer-(ferry)-Belfast-Waterford-(ferry)-Cherbourg-Bordeaux-Lisbon-Seville. But getting from BSL to Bordeaux isn’t that easy, either… I’d need to change in either Clermont Ferrand or Marseille, which is just getting to much hastle, so it looks like it’s just the big screen for me.. oh well,
tell all the *ahem* Bears *ahem* you know,
we’re still spending the Euro an’ they’re no’,
they’ll be watching the Bill, while we win in Seville,
it’s gonna be three in a r-o-o-o-w
By: mongu - 11th May 2003 at 22:49
Originally posted by Ren Frew
And the Uefa head of security thinks only about 6000 Celtic fans will turn up too. Oh what a fool !Everyone I speak to in Glasgow seems to be going, except the Rangers fans of course.:D
Football authorities are always foolish!
By: dan330 - 11th May 2003 at 22:12
Shows how much pressure these big matches can put on airports.
We all know the Champions League final is in Manchester and an airport that size is struggling to cope!
By: Ren Frew - 11th May 2003 at 21:11
And the Uefa head of security thinks only about 6000 Celtic fans will turn up too. Oh what a fool !
Everyone I speak to in Glasgow seems to be going, except the Rangers fans of course.:D
By: Wingflaps2 - 11th May 2003 at 21:06
Monarch are doing some too!
We are the largest ad-hoc flyers.
Apparently, there are 80,000 football supporters going to Seville, but Seville Airport only has about 8 airbridges? Rediculous situation.
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