EDI 11/11/20 Scottish Football Team

EDI 11/11/20 Scottish Football Team

The Scottish football team departed Edinburgh at 4pm today to head to Serbia where they play in the Euro 2020 qualifiers final. If Scotland win, they will be into the finals being played next year. Scotland have not made any sort of world cup final for 23 years!

I was at Edinburgh Airport watching the players disembark their coaches arriving at Signature Flight Support who control all ground operations for business jets, VIP charters and military movements at the airport. 

Today, Signature was certainly busier than the main terminal hosting the special guests. During my visit, there were only 2 other flights arriving and no departures in a two hour time period.



The Boeing 737 G-SWRD from 2 Excel Aviation being used as a charter flight to take Scotland to Serbia.







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