tsra From United States of America, joined Feb 2007, 198 posts, RR: 0 Posted (2 months 1 week 3 hours ago) and read 5271 times:
It is that time of the year when college basketball teams, band/cheerleaders, and alumni charter flights for the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Anyone know which schools are using which airlines for their charters? Also, if you see a charter pop up on your favorite flight tracking sites, please feel free to post here!
Sligo From United States of America, joined Jan 2013, 70 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (2 months 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 4512 times:
So it looks like one Sun Country 738 is spending a lot of time doing NCAA charters.
SCX8600 did Syracuse to SJC last night; then went back home to MSP. Now it is enroute to Ft Collins, presumably to pick up Colorado State on it's way to LEX. It then heads to COU to pick up Mizzou and head back to LEX.
Cubsrule From United States of America, joined May 2004, 21244 posts, RR: 19 Reply 12, posted (2 months 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 4334 times:
Here's what I have for Thursday games. This is most of the Lexington teams (all who are flying but Davidson, I think), all the SLC teams (thanks redzepplin) and all of the SJC teams. Oddly, I can't find any of the Auburn Hills teams. Maybe they are all going tomorrow, but if so that's a long flight for San Diego State for one day before.. . .
Valparaiso:
Michigan State: Driving to Auburn Hills
I am really surprised these teams did not fly into the Downtown Airport because the Sprint Center is across I-70 from the airport. A 5 minute drive compaired to a 30 minute drive.
DiamondFlyer From United States of America, joined Oct 2008, 1294 posts, RR: 3 Reply 16, posted (2 months 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 3980 times:
Quoting tsra (Reply 15): I am really surprised these teams did not fly into the Downtown Airport because the Sprint Center is across I-70 from the airport. A 5 minute drive compaired to a 30 minute drive.
Doesn't make that big of difference really. They are going straight to the arena to play, so the advantage is gone. Plus MCI is set up for heavy metal, versus MKC which doesn't get it very often these days.
Also in the Kansas City bracket, I'd expect Kansas to drive, since its all of about 30 miles.
I reason I bring this up is all of the Big 12 teams (that flew a chartered aircraft) flew into the Downtown Airport. I am a "friend" on their Facebook page which showed 732, 734, and MD80 charters (along with some F/A-18s and a C-17). https://www.facebook.com/mkcairport
I am local to Kansas City and know when the teams land, they will take I-29 to HWY 169 right passed the Downtown Airport on their way to the Sprint Center. Besides, I wanted to see bigger planes out my loft overlooking the airport.
Western Kentucky: CRJ N97EA BWG-MCI http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N.../history/20130320/1730Z/KBWG/KMCI. I am interested in what anyone knows about this aircraft, which also took Davidson JQF-LEX yesterday and looks like it may be going to pick up Notre Dame next.
Kansas: Driving to Kansas City
Quoting tsra (Reply 15): I am really surprised these teams did not fly into the Downtown Airport because the Sprint Center is across I-70 from the airport. A 5 minute drive compaired to a 30 minute drive.
With limited exceptions (BED/BOS this year), NCAA charters tend to stick to main airports more than a lot of other sports charters. I don't know why.
There also seems to be a lot more commercial flying this year and a lot less use of tertiary airports. It appears that most of the Auburn Hills teams flew commercial to Detroit, and I can't find flights for several Philadelphia teams or for UCLA, which will be doing LAX-AUS, a route with a ton of service. In fact, with a few exceptions (e.g. Northwestern State), all of the missing charters above may be teams flying commercial.
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redzeppelin From United States of America, joined Feb 2012, 276 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (2 months 5 days ago) and read 3837 times:
Quoting Cubsrule (Reply 18): Western Kentucky: CRJ N97EA BWG-MCI ...
I am interested in what anyone knows about this aircraft, which also took Davidson JQF-LEX yesterday and looks like it may be going to pick up Notre Dame next.
25 B727LVR: One thing could be, these larger airports tend to have better services than most of the smaller airports. If a plane goes mechanical, its easier to w
26 KBUF: Michigan's playing South Dakota State, not San Diego State.
27 Cubsrule: Friday games (updated): Albany Duke: SY 73G RDU-PHL http://flightaware.com/live/flight/S...0/history/20130320/2300Z/KRDU/KPHL Wisconsin: XP 734 MSN-MC
28 Cubsrule: It helps to look in the right state . . . South Dakota State flew SY FSD-DTW http://flightaware.com/live/flight/S...0/history/20130319/1900Z/KFSD/KDT
29 BAC111: Cubsrule: Thanks for all of your efforts on this. I always find these NCAA flights interesting. I think my alma mater Albany must have bussed to Phila
30 Jet13: Was going to post that! #runrabbits lets go state! -Nick
31 Cubsrule: You're welcome. One (less obvious) interesting thing to do is to take a look at some of the old threads on charters to see how things have changed. I
32 usflyguy: It's interesting the SY, with a fleet as small as they have, have extra a/c to do these charters during the spring break season.
33 KELPkid: Until they went under, Champion Air was a huge player in NCAA sports charters. They usually had the contract for flying home the losers in the NCAA t
34 alphaomega: North American has N764NA operating SLC-BOS tomorrow - bringing back Harvard?
35 usflyguy: SY 8650 is currently running SLC-BNA. Bringing Belmont home I'm guessing.
36 usflyguy: Allegiant 4616 is running SJC-SWO... Oklahoma State going home
37 LV: I am really suprised at the lack of flights G4 is doing this year. I only saw one in the rundown... for FGCU going RSW to PHL. Did G4 not bid or is it
38 ONT2CGI: UAlbany charted a bus for both the Men's and Women's teams. http://www.timesunion.com/sports/art...is-first-foe-for-Danes-4361664.php
39 Cubsrule: Thursday Losers North Carolina A&T Amerijet 732 LEX-GSO http://flightaware.com/live/flight/A...0/history/20130322/1200Z/KLEX/KGSO South Dakota Sta
41 wjcandee: I guess that a.net hasn't kept up with the BSK change in IATA code from "GL" to "LL". Our site seems to still think that LL is Allegro Air.[Edited 201
42 Cubsrule: Friday Losers Albany: Bus Wisconsin: SY 738 MCI-MSN http://flightaware.com/live/flight/S...0/history/20130323/0030Z/KMCI/KMSN North Carolina State: LL
43 Cubsrule: After the Round of 32, which I guess is now the third round, everyone goes home. Here are yesterday's flights: Michigan: Bus to Ann Arbor VCU: Amerist
44 gators312: Normally AA carries the Gators, and did so to Austin. Seems as if Allegiant took them back to GNV http://flightaware.com/live/flight/A...5/history/201
45 Cubsrule: Sunday is another day on which everyone goes home . . . Ohio State: Bus to Columbus Iowa State: G4 M83 DAY-DSM http://flightaware.com/live/flight/A...
46 Cubsrule: Thursday Games (Sweet 16) Marquette: SY 738 MKE-IAD http://flightaware.com/live/flight/S...0/history/20130326/2100Z/KMKE/KIAD Miami: DL 320 MIA-IAD ht
47 redzeppelin: Lest we forget about the other post-season basketball tournaments in progress, here's a unique charter flight from the NIT. BYU is playing at Southern
48 RICBWI: I believe I heard LaSalle was going straight to Los Angeles and not going back to Philly.
49 Cubsrule: Friday games Oregon: XP 734 EUG-IND http://flightaware.com/live/flight/C...2/history/20130327/1500Z/KEUG/KIND Louisville: Bus to Indianapolis Michigan
50 rbgso: Perhaps it is spring break at La Salle and classes are out for the week?
52 davs5032: The teams have so many tutors at their disposal they probably learn more on the road than they would sitting/sleeping in a classroom.
53 Cubsrule: Florida went today, on a FL 73G GNV-DAL http://flightaware.com/live/flight/T...0/history/20130328/1500Z/KGNV/KDAL
54 mbm3: I chuckled and thought the same thing, until I remembered this.... ...and it is a lot easier to control the student athletes on the road. Back to av
55 deltalaw: That was not the team that flew to DAL this morning...The players and coaches took a bus from their last site in Austin to Dallas on Monday. The AirT
56 Cubsrule: It is. My point isn't that they aren't learning. My point is that it reinforces the idea that the idea of a student athlete as somebody who goes to c
57 gators312: So the G4 charter from last week wasn't the team returning from Austin?
58 deltalaw: Everyone took AA from GNV to AUS. Everyone but the players and coaches took G4 back to GNV after the win over Minnesota and yesterday all the same pe
59 SW733: I know there are reasons, but I do wonder why they didn't use the Downtown airport in Kansas City? It's only a few minutes from the Sprint Center, an
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