A glance at the departure tables, and cancellations displayed at Nantes airport this Wednesday, November 6, due to the firefighters’ strike. Almost no flights are insured. Canceled, the Easyjet flight at 10:35 a.m., also canceled that of Volotea at 11:45 a.m., as was the flight operated by KLM at around 6 a.m. Flights that some Stade Brestois supporters had to take to attend the Champions League match in Prague against Sparta at 9 p.m..
Two plane tickets, two canceled flights
Cold shower, for Mathieu, François or even this member of the Celtic Ultras who announce sell their parking space. François will stay in Quimper to watch the match at home, after hours of emotional roller coaster, three plane tickets purchased and more than 400 euros in the wind: “I’m disgusted. I had altered my schedule a little to be able to go, I was happy! We normally took the plane at 6 a.m., we learned of the first cancellation at 11 a.m. yesterday morning. We were a little stunned . With three of my friends, we said we were going to look for an emergency solution. We went back to another flight which was leaving this morning at 10:30 a.m. But this flight was canceled last night at 11 p.m. I was going to bed because we were leaving at around 4:30 a.m. for Nantes.” Result: two outward and one return tickets purchased.
“Tickets at exorbitant prices”
He then considers with his friends all other solutions : “There, we call our friends and then we try to find a solution in another airport. We looked at Rennes, we looked at Bordeaux, we looked at Paris. But the problem is that we are not the alone in the same situation, knowing that all the planes from Prague were canceled from Nantes So everyone is also looking for the good deal and so we end up with. tickets at exorbitant prices. We’ve seen them cost more than 500 euros for a Paris-Prague, so it’s out of the question. We hypothesized about the car, but we all worked the day… We were tired! And there is also the return to manage by car. So it’s been 17 hours twice, it was just impossible.” François did not make the trip to Salzburg, but he will go to Barcelona and in Germany against Chatkhtior Donetsk.
And they are at least around twenty for sale one or more placesto read the post from BrestonAir, the podcast dedicated to Stade Brestois, which calls on discomfited supporters to sell their ticket at the purchase price.
Stuck in the departure hall
Antoine is stuck in the departure hall. He left Brest in the night to still go to Nantes airport: “I saw this morning when I woke up at 3:30 a.m. that the flight had been canceled, but we preferred to come to the airport to check with someone from Easyjet, but there was no one there. So we are in looking for a solution, maybe going to Paris because we had booked a three-day trip. We were going there mainly for the match, but also to do a little sightseeing. It’s annoying, we’re in the process. to think about it but it’s not too serious. There’s a flight this evening, but it’s at 9 p.m., at the time of the match. The match is dead, that’s for sure.
“Any solution to go to Prague”
Théliau is not yet in Prague at noon, but he is in Paris, “not even halfway, hoping to get to Prague one day.” He’s waiting for his plane to… Amsterdam! Tuesday evening, this resident of Kersaint-Plabennec and his friends began to see Brest’s X threads (ex-Twitter) panicking over the issue of thefts. “We started to say that it stank, but when we went to bed, the flights were maintained. Except that, when we woke up this morning – we had to leave Kersaint at 4 a.m. to go to Nantes – we saw that the flight was canceled. We looked for any solution to go to Prague.”
Car, train and two planes
La solution ? “We took the car from Kersaint to Rennes, the train from Rennes to Paris.” And now the plane, it’s expensive but “we will look at the financial aspect later”. Out of the group of eight, five were able to have a direct Paris-Prague. But the plane is full, Théliau and two friends have a connection in Amsterdam, arriving at 7:30 p.m..” He is counting on the mobilization of the Ultras to be transported to the stadium on time for kick-off, luggage included, since they will not have had time to drop it off.
17 hours by car
Less radical solution, but much more complicated for certain other Stade Brestois supporters. As soon as the cancellation of flights was announced on Tuesday evening, some people got organized: “Departure by car at 8 p.m. upon the announcement of the cancellation… Arrival in Prague scheduled for 12 p.m.! What a journey!” explains Vivien about X. Obviously, he arrived early, time to do “a little sleep at the apartment”. He is expected by his friend Rémy in the afternoon on Old Town Square, “meeting place for all Brest supporters”.
