Did anyone get a flight in or out of Tblisi
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Topic: Did anyone get a flight in or out of Tblisi
Posted By: Bob Hoskins
Subject: Did anyone get a flight in or out of Tblisi
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 10:19am
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Between the hours of 9am and 12am? Don't think I spoke to one person that had a normal times flight. wtf is the story there? The airport is rammed at 4am 
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Posted By: AVFCAnne
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 10:25am
We were talking to an Irish lad who told us some rather convoluted tale about it being something to do with using Russian airspace. Whether that's true or not, I have no idea. |
Bob Hoskins wrote:Posted By: horsebox
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 10:38am
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I was told it was to to Western Europe before business hours. ------------- It was far across the sea, When the devil got a hold of me, He wouldn't set me free, So he kept me soul for ransom. na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na. I'm a sailor man from Glasgow to |
Posted By: greenlad
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 10:48am
| Got the 4.55pm from Tbilisi, to Kiev, airport wasn't too busy during the day now you mention it |
Posted By: irish_goat
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 11:52am
| 6am Kutaisi flight to Berlin lands at 8am Berlin time. Perfect if you're going to work, which I assume is who the flight is aimed at. |
Posted By: greenforever
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 12:09pm
Was the same for Yerevan and Astana ------------- I know nothing :-) |
Posted By: deise316
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 12:30pm
Got a domestic flight from Batumi inwards, landed at 3pm. There is some restriction on airspace alright, I remember reading it somewhere before, all international flights seem to leave & land between 3am and 11am or thereabouts, bar those to Russia, Ukraine or Turkey, some of which leave at more normal hours. ------------- Picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue..... |
Posted By: nvidic
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 12:37pm
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I'd imagine it's because planes can take off much easier in the cool than the heat, Tbilisi gets extreme summer daytime temperatures which would make it tricky for planes to leave. See the same in the middle eastern airports, most flights go during the night. |
Posted By: greenforever
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 12:52pm
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https://www.cospot.ge/en/night-flights-tbilisi-airport/ " rel="nofollow - https://www.cospot.ge/en/night-flights-tbilisi-airport/ ; Nighttime curfews in European airports and the need to meet connecting flights seems the reason ------------- I know nothing :-) |
Posted By: PanteirA
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 1:13pm
| All nonsense. Its because of the fairies |
Posted By: SuperDave84
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 1:35pm
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Yeah, airlines want to use their fleets 24 hours around if they can and nighttime curfews at basically every major European airport, along with the fact the majority of planes used for useful flights to Tbilisi for us are based in Europe, means they tend to be in and out of Tbilisi in the middle of the night. The same applies for Europe to Astana, Yerevan and Baku, along with other places in Central Asia and, to a lesser extent, the Middle East. The flight time from most of Europe to Tbilisi (3 to 4 hours) plus the average curfew time (midnight to six am or so) makes it an ideal location to fly to before midnight, land in the middle of the night, take off again, and arrive back in Europe just after curfew hours. If Tbilisi airport had a curfew between midnight and 6am, it's not clear what would happen. Would they lose flights? Maybe. Airlines might not be so willing to use the fleet going to and from there during the day if they could more profitably use it in Western Europe. The flight times were probably the main reason I went for the Kutaisi option this time around (well, the Milan - Kutaisi flights were cheap too). If it hadn't been an option, I'd likely have been on the UIA afternoon option with an evening in Amsterdam on the way back. It's not so much the arriving at 3am (which is fine: it's only midnight Irish time), it's leaving. There are so few flights west during the middle of the day, at least not remotely affordable ones. ------------- 
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Posted By: greenforever
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 2:29pm
Wizzair or Ryanair will eventually set up a base in places like here A plane based in Tbilisi could do 2 round trips to Amsterdam / Frankfort a day at decent timings to link into onward connections Once Georgia and the likes join the EU openskys there will be a huge increase in options. If I remember right Tbilisi had 6m visitors last year and tourism will grow rapidly in Georgia. ------------- I know nothing :-) |
Posted By: Claret Murph
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 2:37pm
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Posted By: horsebox
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 2:41pm
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That only applies to the smaller planes, not the Boeing class. ------------- It was far across the sea, When the devil got a hold of me, He wouldn't set me free, So he kept me soul for ransom. na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na. I'm a sailor man from Glasgow to |
Posted By: Shoco
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 3:42pm
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Flew through Kiev and landed just before midnight. Mafis flight to dubai the day after the game was at 11am i think -------------  YOUR 3 IN A ROW LEAGUE CHAMPIONS |
Posted By: Saint Tom
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 4:47pm
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Posted By: Lostandfound
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 7:25pm
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Flew out at 13.20, was worth the detour through Moscow to fly at sensible times. |
Posted By: Bob Hoskins
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2017 at 8:40pm
Some serious flight information here  ------------- Romario 2016: And the ticket mafia gets caught! Well, four years ago I had already told the government. |
Posted By: colemanY2K
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2017 at 1:19pm
Norwegian pulled their 787 Dreamliner from vegas in the summer months because it was struggling in the heat (delays rather than fear of it crashing)
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