Uzbekistan 757 in ADL

[David M]

For those who may have missed the arrival, an Uzbekistan 757-200 arrived into Adelaide (in less than great weather) today to deliver the National soccer team who are playing in Adelaide on Wednesday.

The aircraft, registered VP-BUD arrived around 1030am local time and parked at bay 22 while passengers and crew disembarked and services attended. The aircraft was then towed to bay 83 at the old domestic terminal for it's stay.

Assuming at this stage the aircraft will depart on Thursday 09OCT.

Cheers

David.M.

[Nathan Long]

David,

It's not the Uzbek national team but Kuruvchi/Bunyodkor who are playing Adelaide FC in the 1st leg of the AFC Champions League Semi Final.

[Rhys Xanthis]

Apparently Adelaide's trip to Uzbekistan is going to take 30 hours...i'll guess they aren't chartering a plane!

[Ryan Hothersall]

Nice photos David. The weather was shocking when it arrived, but cleared up when it was towed around the back of the old domestic terminal.

[David M]

It's not the Uzbek national team but Kuruvchi/Bunyodkor who are playing Adelaide FC in the 1st leg of the AFC Champions League Semi Final.

Bunyodkor are playing who?? :D

Good job this is an aviation forum and not a soccer forum or I may have been shot down for that slip up. :)

Thanks for the info Nathan... I'm no soccer geek as you can tell, however, should I have said it was an A310 jumbo with blended winglets in a revised scheme and it had turboprops on it... by all means!

David.M.

[Stefan Perkas]

G'Day all,

Here are my photos of what I think is the 'Australia's movement of the month'. All these photos are taken from inside the terminal.

[steve k]

leaves ADL early Thurs morning according to info I have. Will confirm details later today.

[Rhys Xanthis]

Yes, the game is tonight, and its a long trip to Uzbekistan (11077km direct accoriding to Great Circle Mapper) plus at least one stop, so the plane will be leaving tomorrow.

Now i've got to try and find out how Adelaide United are getting to Uzbekistan...curiousity always gets the better of me:p

[Ryan Hothersall]

Any idea when it will depart tomorrow 9thursday 9 oct)?

[Brett E]

Any idea when it will depart tomorrow 9thursday 9 oct)?

Aircraft will be towed to T1 at 0630 depart 0730 - Bay 20R

[Justin L]

Now i've got to try and find out how Adelaide United are getting to Uzbekistan...curiousity always gets the better of me:p

From the A-League website:
Working against United is the travel commitments it faces next week. It flies to Brisbane and tackles the Queensland Roar on Friday night before setting off for Tashkent, via Singapore, on the weekend.

The team is scheduled to arrive in Uzbekistan early Monday morning.

Tashkent Airport doesn't seem to have any direct services to Singapore, so there will likely be another transit point, or it's a charter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkent_International_Airport

[David Wilkie]

Took off at 10:15 this morning

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff273/ypadacars/dw-vp-bud-ypad-9-10-20089-16-44.jpg

[phil.l]

Nice photo David,good colour scheme to.

[Rhys Xanthis]

Very good photo indeed.

And thanks to Justin for that news article.

[Grant Smith]

FYI, Andy Harper informed Fox Sports viewers that Adelaide Untied would be flying Business class all the way to Tashkent courtesy of the FFA, reinforcing the FFA's commitment to the Asian Champions League.

[Justin L]

For what it's worth, it appears Adelaide United's routing was as follows:

Brisbane-Singapore (Singapore Airlines)*
Singapore-New Delhi (Air India)
New Delhi-Tashkent (Uzbekistan Airways)#

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24528115-12428,00.html

*Singapore Airlines isn't mentioned in the article, but I assume this as Air India code shares on this 9.30am BNE-SIN flight and while watching the game between Queensland Roar and Adelaide United last Friday night, the commentators mentioned the players needed to leave their hotel at 7.00am the following morning for their flight from Brisbane.

#Uzbekistan Airways' website doesn't show them as flying New Delhi-Tashkent. Does anyone know if Adelaide United's flight was a charter?

[Rhys Xanthis]

Thanks Justin for the flight routing.

Pretty heavy if i do say so myself. Would not have been easy.

[Steve Jones]

I recently went to Uzbekistan (SYD-BKK-TAS and return). Given HY have direct flights from KUL, BKK, ICN, NRT etc to Tashkent, they could have done a much more direct routing than that... You would think in the interests of player fatigue, you would get the most direct routing possible!

[Justin L]

I recently went to Uzbekistan (SYD-BKK-TAS and return). Given HY have direct flights from KUL, BKK, ICN, NRT etc to Tashkent, they could have done a much more direct routing than that... You would think in the interests of player fatigue, you would get the most direct routing possible!

I thought that too, but without looking at the timetables in too much detail, it may be a connection timing issue with overnighting maybe necessary out of BNE to TAS via a direct connecting port like KUL, ICN, BKK etc. Also in order for Adelaide United to arrive back directly into Adelaide, SQ may have been the best option, hence the outbound also SQ. Which then meant that via India was the best option?

A quick check on Expedia for BNE-TAS flights on an upcoming Saturday (same day of the week travel as they went) shows all BNE-TAS services with two stops with flight durations of between 29 and 44 hours, so maybe they had no other choice?