NFL 2018 Charters (Airlines/Flight Numbers)

wjcandee · Wed Aug 29, 2018 6:28 am

Moose135 wrote:
NE Patriots flew into CLT this afternoon for Friday night's game with the Carolina Panthers. Their registration, N36NE is blocked on FlightAware, however checking flights between PVD and CLT for today, there was one listed as UDG4322 as a B763.

Yeah, UDG is the abbreviation for Team125, Inc., the owner/operator of the aircraft.

tsra · Wed Aug 29, 2018 11:36 pm

Green Bay flew into MKC for their trip to Kansas City on a 757 and a A320.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL8868
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL8869

airportugal310 · Wed Aug 29, 2018 11:40 pm

Hawaiian 704 flew the Raiders today to play the Seahawks

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/HAL ... /KOAK/KSEA

AviatorTravis · Thu Aug 30, 2018 12:17 am

United_fan wrote:
The Bills using DL again ?

No, they are flying Atlas Air 767s and 747s this season. Delta charged too much.

hkcanadaexpat · Mon Sep 10, 2018 4:58 am

N642UA (UA 763ER - Polaris) flew the Chiefs to Los Angeles on Saturday (UA2543)

hkcanadaexpat · Mon Sep 10, 2018 8:03 am

N350AN (AA 763ER) flew the Cowboys to Charlotte on Saturday (AA9458) and back to Dallas on Sunday (AA9750)

redwingspilot · Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:18 pm

Panthers and Eagles flying AA tomorrow

Flight 9467 A321 CLT-ATL

Flight 9475 A332 PHL-TPA

99NY · Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:36 pm

LA Chargers are departing for Buffalo at 1425 local time, flying as Atlas Air 8574 aboard B744 N322SG
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/GTI ... /KLAX/KBUF

Runway28L · Sat Sep 15, 2018 12:53 am

The Chiefs are scheduled on a UA B764 (N76064) MCI-PIT tomorrow afternoon.

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/UA2543

ctrabs0114 · Sat Sep 15, 2018 3:57 pm

United_fan wrote:
Nice to see Atlas getting in on NFL charters. I never saw them do that before. I remember when the Bills used World MD-11's.

Atlas flew charters for Jacksonville and Arizona last season, IIRC.

hkcanadaexpat · Mon Sep 24, 2018 1:26 am

N346AN (AA - 763ER) took the Cowboys from DFW to SEA on Saturday and then back to DFW on Sunday evening.

hkcanadaexpat · Wed Sep 26, 2018 3:53 am

N140LL (DL - 763) taking the Vikings from MSP to LAX Tuesday evening ahead of Thursday night's game.

lat41 · Mon Oct 01, 2018 12:25 am

Miami Dolphins used 2 Miami Air Int'l 737-800s FLL to PVD arriving Sat. afternoon and departing after game with Patriots on Sun. 9/30 . Was historically an AA 763 trip.

Lpbri · Mon Oct 01, 2018 12:45 am

Looks like the Lions use an outfit called "Crystal" with a 777. Never heard of them.

airportugal310 · Mon Oct 01, 2018 6:04 pm

Lpbri wrote:
Looks like the Lions use an outfit called "Crystal" with a 777. Never heard of them.

Really? That seems a little opulent...especially for the Lions!

Here's a link for you...decide for yourself: https://www.crystalcruises.com/aircruises

United_fan · Mon Oct 01, 2018 8:58 pm

The Bills have been using N322SG 747-400 from Atlas (the gold one) . Went to see it leave BUF Saturday. ... The plane needs a paint job,badly!

26point2 · Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:13 pm

Seahawks v Raiders in London later this month. HA in London must be a rare sight. Even more rare? 2 HA's in London at the same time.

airportugal310 · Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:21 pm

26point2 wrote:
Seahawks v Raiders in London later this month. HA in London must be a rare sight. Even more rare? 2 HA's in London at the same time.

HA is not scheduled to do these...The NFL has an agreement with Virgin Atlantic and will supposedly handle them both

Moose135 · Sun Oct 07, 2018 9:48 pm

Not quite a team charter, but knowing the Giants were playing Carolina today, I was watching for this guy, a G-IV belonging to Giants co-owner Steve Tisch. It arrived Saturday afternoon, a couple of hours after the team charter arrived.

hkcanadaexpat · Wed Oct 10, 2018 7:38 am

N347AN (AA - 763ER) took the Cowboys from DFW to IAH on Saturday.

ctrabs0114 · Wed Oct 10, 2018 11:33 am

Lpbri wrote:
Looks like the Lions use an outfit called "Crystal" with a 777. Never heard of them.

By my count, DL lost/dropped Buffalo, the LA Chargers and Seattle this season. I guess they're getting out of the NFL charter business slowly but surely...

(EDIT: See post below for clarification of Detroit.)

ctrabs0114 · Wed Oct 10, 2018 11:42 am

Lpbri wrote:
Looks like the Lions use an outfit called "Crystal" with a 777. Never heard of them.

That has to be a one-off, because DL8867 is listed as the charter flight for the Detroit Lions with an A321 for both regular season road trips so far this season (SFO and DFW):

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL8867

Just curious, but what proof do you have that Crystal was involved with the Lions?

mailmover · Thu Oct 11, 2018 3:32 am

airportugal310 wrote:
26point2 wrote:
Seahawks v Raiders in London later this month. HA in London must be a rare sight. Even more rare? 2 HA's in London at the same time.

HA is not scheduled to do these...The NFL has an agreement with Virgin Atlantic and will supposedly handle them both

Virgin 9965, A340-600 G-VBUG, is currently enroute to London carrying the Seahawks. Saw it fly right over my house.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VIR9965

mailmover · Fri Oct 12, 2018 4:29 am

The Raiders are now en route to London, Virgin 9961, A340-600 G-VWEB

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VIR9961

hkcanadaexpat · Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:05 pm

N263SG (5Y - 744) departing LAX shortly taking the Chargers to Cleveland.

chrisjake · Mon Oct 15, 2018 3:11 pm

airportugal310 wrote:
26point2 wrote:
Seahawks v Raiders in London later this month. HA in London must be a rare sight. Even more rare? 2 HA's in London at the same time.

HA is not scheduled to do these...The NFL has an agreement with Virgin Atlantic and will supposedly handle them both

Is that agreement with Virgin Atlantic for ALL the NFL games in London this year? It appears the Chargers are staying in Cleveland this week after their game and will leave for London from there on Thursday.

Moose135 · Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:24 pm

chrisjake wrote:
Is that agreement with Virgin Atlantic for ALL the NFL games in London this year?

From what I remember seeing, Virgin has had the contract for flying teams to London since they started playing games there regularly a few years ago.

wjcandee · Mon Oct 15, 2018 7:27 pm

Moose135 wrote:
No, the Dolphins arrived Wednesday afternoon on a Miami Air 737 and a Kaiser Air 737. Their training camp is in Davie, FL, just a short ride from FLL

The Kaiser Air 737-700 is a 60-seat VIP configuration. http://www.kaiserair.com/uploads/4/2/4/ ... 10812b.pdf

777PHX · Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:12 pm

chrisjake wrote:
airportugal310 wrote:
26point2 wrote:
Seahawks v Raiders in London later this month. HA in London must be a rare sight. Even more rare? 2 HA's in London at the same time.

HA is not scheduled to do these...The NFL has an agreement with Virgin Atlantic and will supposedly handle them both

Is that agreement with Virgin Atlantic for ALL the NFL games in London this year? It appears the Chargers are staying in Cleveland this week after their game and will leave for London from there on Thursday.

The contract is probably with the league because I'm pretty sure the league pays for the charters to London, where the teams normally pay for their own air travel. I'd imagine the NFL has one contract with VI for all of the London games.

hkcanadaexpat · Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:07 am

N385AM (AA - 763ER) took the Cowboys from DFW to IAD on Saturday.

tsra · Sun Oct 21, 2018 11:50 am

DL 8866 (757) took the Bengals to Kansas City (MKC)

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL ... /KCVG/KMKC

ctrabs0114 · Sun Oct 21, 2018 10:15 pm

tsra wrote:
DL 8866 (757) took the Bengals to Kansas City (MKC)

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL ... /KCVG/KMKC

For some reason, I seem to recall the Bengals flying a DL A330 last season, so this looks like a bit of a downgrade for them.

PHLspecial · Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:33 pm

I'm guessing for the Philadelphia vs Jacksonville London game Virgin Atlantic will be ferry them to London?

Sooner787 · Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:45 pm

PHLspecial wrote:
I'm guessing for the Philadelphia vs Jacksonville London game Virgin Atlantic will be ferry them to London?

You would be correct ..... went on a company junket to London 3 years ago for an NFL game and we flew VS from DTW to LHR
A333 in Upper Class. I will say the NFL does know how to take care of their guests.

Amazing weekend from start to finish

JAXDan · Thu Oct 25, 2018 11:40 pm

VS flight 9963 is currently en route JAX-LHR on an A340-600.

hkcanadaexpat · Sun Oct 28, 2018 4:17 am

N140LL (DL - 763) took the Colts from IND to OAK on Saturday. DL8870

Sancho99504 · Sun Oct 28, 2018 5:09 am

ctrabs0114 wrote:
Lpbri wrote:
Looks like the Lions use an outfit called "Crystal" with a 777. Never heard of them.

By my count, DL lost/dropped Buffalo, the LA Chargers and Seattle this season. I guess they're getting out of the NFL charter business slowly but surely...

(EDIT: See post below for clarification of Detroit.)

HA is flying the Seahawks this season because they refuse to fly on narrowbodies. They'll be back with DL next season as there is something in the works with some soon to be retired 767s.

ctrabs0114 · Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:00 pm

Sancho99504 wrote:
ctrabs0114 wrote:
Lpbri wrote:
Looks like the Lions use an outfit called "Crystal" with a 777. Never heard of them.

By my count, DL lost/dropped Buffalo, the LA Chargers and Seattle this season. I guess they're getting out of the NFL charter business slowly but surely...

(EDIT: See post below for clarification of Detroit.)

HA is flying the Seahawks this season because they refuse to fly on narrowbodies. They'll be back with DL next season as there is something in the works with some soon to be retired 767s.

I did see that in a related thread. Thanks for that.

hkcanadaexpat · Sun Nov 11, 2018 8:01 am

N347AN (AA - 763ER) took the Cowboys from DFW to PHL on Saturday.

tsra · Sun Nov 11, 2018 12:29 pm

5Y 8542 (744) took the Arizona Cardinals to Kansas City (MCI).

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/GTI ... /KPHX/KMCI

910A · Sun Nov 11, 2018 3:26 pm

Sancho99504 wrote:
HA is flying the Seahawks this season because they refuse to fly on narrowbodies. They'll be back with DL next season as there is something in the works with some soon to be retired 767s.

Just a fun fact about wide bodies and the NFL. Way back in the first Super Bowl season for the 49ers in 1981, the 49ers had their United DC-8 charter to Washington DC replaced by a DC-10, they upset the Redskins, after the game Bill Walsh credited the fact that the team flew a comfortable plane help the team, after that until the current ownership came into power, the 49ers always flew wide bodies to road games mostly the DC-10 with a couple of 747's throw in for good measure and they were almost impossible to beat on the road. Of course they had a very good team..

washingtonflyer · Mon Jan 14, 2019 1:01 am

Looks like Atlas is also returning the Chargers back to LAX.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/GTI8451

jumpseat67 · Tue Feb 05, 2019 12:17 am

After flying UA all season and to/from the NFC Championship game at MSY...the LA Rams flew AA to/from The Super Bow at ATL. The Rams went 7-2 this season averaging 26.88 points per game flying UA, then went 0-1 flying AA while scoring 3 points.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL ... /KLAX/KMSY
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL ... /KLAX/KMSY

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL ... /KLAX/KATL
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL ... /KATL/KLAX

TrafficCop · Tue Feb 05, 2019 2:20 am

Strange to take AA to game and have 3 other Team Charters fly UA. UA had 2 777's and a 757-300 all Rams Charters operate today on the 4th back to LAX.
Flights 2538/39 and 40.

RL757PVD · Tue Feb 05, 2019 2:22 am

The patriots 767s did at least 3 trips back and forth today between PVD and ATL all with various UDG flight numbers

ctrabs0114 · Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:17 pm

TrafficCop wrote:
Strange to take AA to game and have 3 other Team Charters fly UA. UA had 2 777's and a 757-300 all Rams Charters operate today on the 4th back to LAX.
Flights 2538/39 and 40.

Even stranger that AA is apparently now the official airline of the Rams even though they'll be playing their home games next season at the LA Colisuem - whose naming rights will be held by UA as of July 1.

And the Rams flew on a 789, to boot. The Cowboys are lucky to get a 763 on their charters these days...

KBOS · Thu Feb 07, 2019 2:16 pm

The patriots 767s did at least 3 trips back and forth today between PVD and ATL all with various UDG flight numbers

They had both planes at Green. Looks like N225NE came in at 5AM and went back to ATL around 8 then both planes came back that afternoon, N35NE at 2:40 and N225NE shortly after 3. There was also a Delta 764 that went to Boston using the Patriots old flight number 8873

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