You might find them flights get a lot cheaper in January! Will have to look at them myself.

Will be refunded if Political Crisis or war. Got refund when Russia invaded Georgia and game was moved to Mainz.

Looking at Ukraine's past fixtures, they play a lot of games outside of Kiev. Seems Kharkiv, Lviv, Odessa, Dnipro etc. are all options.

Will definitely be Kiev or West of it - they'll be avoiding East and South of the country if played in the Ukraine.

Took a punt and booked it Sunday to Wednesday. Nearly made the mistake of booking from Saturday and missing the Scotland game

Lviv would be a great shout, fans team have played tournaments here over the years and it's a fantastic city. Can fly direct from London or a hope across the border from Poland.

and additional nights accomodation.

No harm booking hotels on free cancellation though. 

KLM allowing flight change up to July.

for example for Euro 2020 qualifying 

they only played Portugal in Kiev, 

Serbia and Luxembourg were in Liev and Lithuania was played in Kharkiv

 

It was at the time compared to Poland 

Good cheap high speed rail connections according to my Ukranian friend.  He has no idea where it will be played either.

I booked the direct Ryanair flights as well so lots of time to travel if needs be.  Of course if in Lviv better to go in via Poland or fly there.  For any of the other venues you are probably going via Kyiv anyway.  

Not from Kiev to Lviv, quite the opposite to be honest

Yes he reckons 5 hours to Lviv and 4.5 to Kharkiv.  Obviously there are much better routes if it does end up in Lviv.  

That must be new as it was always an overnight train when we looked at it over the years going to eurofan. 

SG

For a man of your new skills that shouldn't be an issue .

Hopefully see you at one of the aways

Well I have been speaking Russian since 2013  

Definitely sir, I will be attending them all !

Great spot, it would be a great trip 

That's what you think

Ukraine will be a great trip anyway.  

I know.  I booked straight away but probably safer to wait now assuming prices have shot up.  If it is in Lviv I have booked to soon and there are clearly better ways to get there.  Pretty much anywhere else though and via Kyiv is the way to go.  

The problem is we may not know the venue for a few months.  Of course the political situation is another concern.

Agreed - Armenia is tougher to get to but is bookable now so might lock that in.

Probably played in a different country at this stage

A la Georgia in Mainz in 2008, you mean? 

Correct 

Yeah Russia 

I spent a day there on the way to Baku and the city centre itself is very walkable with distances not being to far apart. Anywhere in the centre from the Golden Gates to Poshtova ploshcha would be a good spot to look at. The stadium is a short walk away from here too. 

Im doubtful there will be any major upheaval that will need the match to be played at a neutral venue. 

Booked the Ryanair flight from Kyiv to Dublin on the Thursday which gives me a day to travel if match is played elsewhere. Cost €37 so not much to lose and can be changed without penalty if need be. Will probably fly there direct from Yerevan so will book that at a later stage. 

Just accommodation booked for Yerevan but will look at booking flights in the next six weeks.

Ukraine. Nothing booked will book a hotel on free cancellation soon. Won't be booking flights until the political situation stabalise.

Will wait till venue confirmed before I look at this - definitely plan on going COVID/Russians permitting unless there is the requirement to test to get home which may put a spanner in the works (can’t afford to isolate abroad especially time  ) 

Have an inbound Scotland flight booked as much for convenience  as  anything else ( poor times into Belfast ) 

Trains cancelled ? 

You can do a walk through antigen test at Londons airports for a few quid, a PCR is not required. the checks after that are minimal.

... and that's when flying to Ireland. Flying to UK now is no different to how it was pre-pandemic. No tests, locator forms etc. needed. I'm currently sitting in the departure lounge at Cork Airport at the moment. My biggest headache is trying to find somewhere selling coffee 

More like £40 quid CY2K, - i aint that bothered with the cost as work will be paying for it but its more the of having to arrange it though i only need it next week as reverting to Belfast after

my point is the cost is not overly exorbitant. It takes no more than 5 mins to book and can be done a couple of hours before the flight. Hardly the greatest obstacle to overcome for the vast majority of passengers.

Won't need it anymore now, it's scrapped 

an antigen test to fly into dublin ?

Yup, so long as your vaccinated, the pre flight test is going 

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/passengers-will-no-longer-need-a-negative-covid-test-to-enter-the-country-41210723.html 

I think the major factor is now you can get home if you have been vaxxed 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-21/u-s-weighs-evacuating-diplomats-family-members-from-ukraine. Posted this on another forum, but it feels like war. 

Lads need to be clever here. I wouldn't go booking any sort of flights to Ukraine, regardless of where it might be played there, or "its" not near the trouble. I was going to Georgia in 2008 when the game was switched to "Mainz" so all my flights to Georgia had to be cancelled due to an "ACT OF WAR", and I got FCK ALL money back on - your travel insurance I'm positive won't cover you if the area is in a war state.. We were due to fly from Tbilisi to Hungary and then onto Montenegro, but they had to be cancelled too.

Ended up paying for an extra flight to Serbia from Frankfurt, train to Podgorica. Then paid for another  flight from there to Frankfurt Hahn with 10 hours on the floor, and lastly another Ryainair flight  home to Dublin which I paid for. Enough said !!! 

Air Baltic were still flying - only got my money back  x 2 as they changed the flight time by a few hours 

KLM and Air France have all tickets as fully refundable and changeable, no reason not to book 

As tensions continue to escalate in Ukraine, some European airlines have begun to switch flight times to Kyiv to avoid aircraft parked overnight.

This is on a different scale. There’s no merit in booking even if it is free cancellation as flight times will change impacting stopovers and there won’t be any demand for flights any time soon so your cash is just tied up in flights you’re unlikely to use.

Could very easily see it switched to Poland or Germany 

+1
 

From the Ukraine FA or a theory based on the security situation.

Some cheap enough non protected transfer options out there.

But we will all be at the mercy of Putin.

Not really, Ryanair fly into there. Quick stop off in Luton and we're laughing

However, the plane could get shot down as it approaches the airport....

Had a one stop flight with KLM, quick stopover, nice times, protected. Not as easy now. But at least there's options I guess. 

Live Border waiting times are here. Direction Ukraine to Poland

https://granica.gov.pl/index_wait.php?p=u&v=en&k=w" rel="nofollow - https://granica.gov.pl/index_wait.php?p=u&v=en&k=w

Seems OK, and also unlikely to be Russian forces on that border so should avoid any hand on hand combat

"Irish people are now advised to avoid non-essential travel to Ukraine. "

You never know, the game against Yugoslavia went ahead in Belgrade in the Euro 2000 qualifiers while they were being bombed out of it by Nato.

Then again the game against Georgia was moved to Mainz for less.

Any source? 

FAI person.

Like even if this game is played in the Ukraine, it will most likely be restricted. I see videos there yesterday of tanks being brought into the Ukraine to help defend the border. There's no hope of a warzone hosting a game with fans.

Poland you would think would be the most likely option. Stadium in Krakow isn't up to much and Poland play in Warsaw the night before so Wroclaw could be an option. I'd have no issue with that as it's a decent city.