Atalanta on the move! - Champions League Group Stage Matchday 3

I may have been out of action for a few weeks, but that was because there was no time available. I have been following things a bit, but unfortunately I missed on reporting about the Air Caraïbes A330s in Liverpool the other week. There are some nice things moving about this week again though, with particularly the travelling support for Atalanta Bergamo looking really substantial:

22 October 2019

Shakhtar Donezk vs. Dinamo Zagreb

The Ukrainian team plays its home games in Kharkiv still, with Donezk obviously not deemed safe enough after all the trouble with Russia.

OU8358 ZAG 1040-xxxx HRK A320 9A-CTK  (21/10/19)

OU8358 ZAG 2030-2330 HRK A320 9A-CTJ (22/10/19, ferry flt)
OU8359 HRK xxxx-xxxx ZAG A320 9A-CTJ (23/10/19)

Galatasaray Istanbul vs. Real Madrid

The White Ballet made its way to Istanbul with a point to prove. Real are no strangers to using big aircraft for their away travel, so rocking up in Turkey with an A340? Why not!

IB2800 MAD 0900-1410 IST A346 EC-JFK (21/10/19)
IB2801 IST 1630-1915 MAD A346 EC-JFX (21/10/19, ferry flt)
IB2800 MAD 1915-0015(+1) IST A346 EC-JFX (22/10/19, ferry flt)
IB2801 IST 0205-0535 MAD A346 EC-JFX (23/10/19)

Atlético Madrid vs. Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Bayer are off to the mighty Atlético Madrid, once again using TUI, this time from Cologne, where they also travelled from Düsseldorf in the past.

TUI8952 CGN xxxx-1330 MAD B738 D-ABKI  (21/10/19)

Olympiacos Piraeus vs. FC Bayern München

The German serial champions used to impress at quite a few places using Airbus A340-600s or even A350-900s recently. Now they revert back to type (i.e. boring the proverbial out of the punters) and travel down to Greece on what feels like a convoi of Lufthansa A321s.

LH2570 MUC 1035-1400 ATH A321 D-AIDD (21/10/19)

LH2572 MUC 1030-1355 ATH A321 D-AIDC (21/10/19)

Tottenham Hotspur vs. Red Star Belgrade

The champions of Serbia are off to London with their national carrier of course, but the Youth League commitments also mean that a second plane is required along with the A320.

JU9024 BEG 1000-xxxx LTN A320 YU-APK (21/10/19)

KRP3085 BEG 1000-xxxx LTN F100 YR-FKA (21/10/19)

Manchester City vs. Atalanta Bergamo

Novices to the Champions League, Atalanta have a large travelling support. The fact that Bergamo is quite a few miles away from the big airports of Milan should help the air traffic to Manchester. The fans are travelling with AlbaStar, Enter Air, Neos and Air Horizont:

AP5935 BGY 1100-1150 MAN B738 EC-NAB (21/10/19)

ENT596 BGY xxxx-0855 MAN B738
AP7737 MXP xxxx-0910 MAN B738

AP5443 BGY xxxx-0950 MAN B738

ENT556 BGY xxxx-1005 MAN B738
BV8842 BGY xxxx-1015 MAN B738

NO2270 BGY xxxx-1015 MAN B738

HAT4007 BGY xxxx-1015 MAN B734

ENT591 BGY xxxx-1035 MAN B738
TDR322 BGY xxxx-1230 MAN F100 9A-BTE

Juventus Turin vs. Lokomotiv Moscow

Lokomotiv decided to put the long way from Moscow to Turin behind them a day early, so they arrived in Piemonte on Sunday already:

GZP149 VKO 1730-xxxx TRN B737 RA-73004 (20/10/19)
GZP150 TRN 1500-xxxx VKO B737 RA-73004 (23/10/19)