Insight into R2 first leg travel - UEFA Champions League on 23 & 24 July 2019

23 July 2019

The New Saints vs. FC Kopenhagen

Having beaten the Kosovo champions Feronikeli, New Saints will be up for a different, more difficult challenge this week. The Danish champions FCK will fly to Liverpool on a Danish Air Transport MD-83:

DX3081 CPH 1100-1145 LPL MD83 (22/07/19)

DX3082 LPL 0000-0245 CPH MD83 (24/07/19)

Saburtalo Tbilisi vs. Dinamo Zagreb

Dinamo Zagreb will start their adventure in Georgia, against Saburtalo, who beat Sheriff Tiraspol in the first round last week.

A92808 ZAG 1000-1500 TBS B737 (22/07/19)

A92807 TBS 0200-0330 ZAG B737 (24/07/19)

PSV Eindhoven vs. FC Basel 1893

Round 2 brings some cracking matches already, in the League route, where the runners-up from the Netherlands and Switzerland will face off against each other. With no more charter capacity available in Basel, the Swiss vice-champions are counting on Helvetic Airways for the time being for their away trips:

2L1432 ZRH 0830-0915 BSL E190 HB-JVT (22/07/19, ferry flt)

2L8432 BSL 1000-xxxx EIN E190 HB-JVT (22/07/19)

2L1433 EIN xxxx-1325 ZRH E190 HB-JVT (22/07/19, ferry flt)

2L1434 ZRH xxxx-xxxx EIN E190 (24/07/19, ferry flt)

2L8435 EIN xxxx-1425 BSL E190 (24/07/19)

2L1435 BSL 1505-xxxx ZRH E190 (24/07/19, ferry flt)

Viktoria Plzen vs. Olympiacos Piraeus

Another match-up of runners-up takes place in Plzen, where Viktoria Plzen and Olympiacos Piraeus will try to end others' hopes of making the Champions League group stage once again:

AEE4010 ATH 1000-1140 PRG A320 (22/07/19)

Sutjeska Niksic vs. APOEL Nicosia

APOEL will once again travel early, making use of some spare time of one of Aegean Airlines' A320s that are based in Cyprus:

AEE4950 LCA 2355-xxxx(+1) TGD A320 (21/07/19)

24 July 2019

CFR Cluj vs. Maccabi Tel Aviv

ED1155 TLV 0850-xxxx CLJ B738 (23/07/19)