UEFA Cup Final flight schedule.

As far as I know they do ad-hoc charters and airlines hire them for tech cover too.

Can someone please explain EAL to me?
Are they Scheduled, Charter or Do they cover other airlines flight when they go tech? Or is it a bit of all 3?

For new year, I went to Milan. I flew from Manchester on LH and connected at FRA. It took ages. Well, right next to my LH aeroplane at Manchester was the EAL 747 with the red stripe. Guess what I saw at Malpensa 7 hours later – the same aircraft. I could have saved hours if I’d known it was making the trip and the ticket maybe would have been cheaper too!

They seem to get around a lot.

I don’t know when you saw it in Belfast but it must have been busy. This was taken the day before the game at GLA and it headed to Seville. I saw it in Malaga the day after the match

How many green stripers have EAL got ?

We had a EAL 747 at Belfast so i guess its the one with the green stripe in the photos?

Honestly….

Here endeth the Seville thread 😀

Originally posted by Bhoy
Whey hey hey! Hmm, Chicko’s choice of song… wasn’t Simply the Best or the Sash or something, by any chance? 😉

Chico says “For it’s a grand old team to play for….”

Originally posted by Ren Frew
I gather a certain Chick Young was heard to lead the 60 strong ensemble in a karaoke contest as the chartered plane headed up into the sky towards Glasgow.

Whey hey hey! Hmm, Chicko’s choice of song… wasn’t Simply the Best or the Sash or something, by any chance? 😉

Ah well, you got to spend 5 days in the Sun with Jackie Bird, what are you complaining about? 😛

This was the common expression on the faces of colleagues who were on the Easyjet list ! (tee hee )

I was quite happy with the Monarch service. Outbound I was too knackered to notice, but I didn’t hear any complaints from passengers or crew. We left Gatwick a little late owing to a couple of “tired” Celtic fans who fell asleep in the terminal after their bags were on.

Coming back we were all de-mob happy and in a jovial mood. The crew didn’t seem to mind this as the entire plane just about was full of BBC or BBC Scotland staff. Extra drinks were the order of the day as we regaled the cabin crew with tales of how Celtic nearly won the Uefa cup and how Porto should enter a diving team into the next Olympics.

The two crew pictured above (names forgotten) were extremely pleasant as we swapped tales of anti social shifts and irregular sleeping habits. After dumping us at Gatwick, they had one more outbound to Arrecife before knocking off for the night.

Some of our colleagues left Malaga on the Monarch flight to Luton. This was an hour late meaning they missed their Easyjet connections to Glasgow and Edinburgh. All other flights were full that evening so the producer of the programme had to charter a 60 seater to get them to GLA. I don’t know what the plane was, (it sounded like a Fokker 50 as described) but after a few grumbles from the BBC crew about having to rely on Easyjet when the rest of us got BA, they were relieved to have missed the EZY connection after watching it return to Luton with a suspected engine fire.

I gather a certain Chick Young was heard to lead the 60 strong ensemble in a karaoke contest as the chartered plane headed up into the sky towards Glasgow.

All in all a tiring but enjoyable experience, shame I never had time to see Seville’s airport and all of those charters.

My view of Seville tended to look like this for several days…

Hey Ren….

A cracking selection of photos you’ve demostrated there! Especially pleased to see some Monarch activity amongst your photos. Do you like the new livery/uniform? What did you think of the ZB onboard service? Would be interested to hear an honest opinion from you.

Glad you had a good trip for photos – hope the tummy gets better quickly!!!

Dean.

Another great selection Ren. Nice to see pics of the people who make the flights possible for a change too. I like the shot of the Malaga Terminal best.

Nice one Ren, cheers! 😀

Cheers ! 😀

all your pictures are always so great we are so lucky that you share them with us thank you

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And finally…. A big thanks to the Monarch cabin crew for a genuinely fun flight experience, also thanks for getting us those big leg room row 10 seats !

The main terminal on departure…

Malaga Airport from the window of a 757, the general aviation side of things…

Iberia Regional Dash 8, very nice…

My Travel Lite A320, lot’s of window reflections through the terminal.