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Booking for this event is unlike any other. Up until 5 hours before each flight departs, you can only register an interest in a flight. Up to 3 people may register an interest in any one flight.
5 hours before each flight is due to depart, an email will be sent to the first person who registered an interest in that flight. (This will be 5 hours prior to the slot time.) The email will contain a validation link which will confirm that person would still like to fly that particular flight. Please Note - You will only have 4 hours from the moment the email is sent to confirm your attendance. (If for whatever reason, you do not receive the email 5 hours before your slot time, please send an email to events@ivao.co.uk and we will manually confirm your booking) If after 4 hours, no confirmation is sent, the flight becomes available for anyone to book, however, the 2nd and 3rd people who registered an interest will be advised by e-mail that the flight is available to reserve.
When selecting your flight, pay careful attention to the slot time. As we are using real flight schedules with a large number of flights, delays are inevitable. As a result, we have simulated the delays that each aircraft had.
- Slot Times in green have a take off time that is between -5 minutes and +10 minutes of the ETD, thus are not classed as having a delay.
- Slot times in blue have a take off that is more than 5 minutes prior to the ETD, thus are classed as early.
- Slot times in red have a take off time that is more than 10 minutes after the ETD, thus are classed as delayed flights.
It is important that the slot times are adhered to. ETD and ETA times are for reference ONLY. You must take off at the Slot time. (Remember, you must be airborne between -5 minutes and +10 minutes of your slot time or a new time has to be assigned.)
When departing, you should plan to pushback between 15 and 20 minutes before your slot.
When booking flights, if it turns out you are number 2 or 3 in the queue for a flight, we would strongly suggest that you book another flight just in case, to avoid disappointment.
We also realise that if you don't get the flight you wanted, it is very tempting to fly a non scheduled flight. We can't stress enough that we would prefer you to fly a flight within our schedules. Non scheduled flights put a HUGE strain on the system and we cannot guarantee that they will all be able to land at Heathrow.
Scheduled data is from Saturday 5th March 2011 - If you don't see a flight that you expect to be there, it is because it wasn't flown on that day. Only aircraft that flew into or out of Heathrow on the 5th March are included.