The Nebraska Cornhuskers leave for Dublin, Ireland tonight out of Omaha’s Eppley Airfield on a special ferry flight provided by game sponsor Aer Lingus. The Irish airline flew it’s Airbus A330-330 widebody aircraft over to Omaha from Chicago earlier this evening after flying a commercial flight across the Atlantic with it from Dublin to Chicago earlier today.
The scheduled flight time is 8 hours and 16 minutes, with a departure set from Omaha of 8:00 p.m. local time and an arrival to Dublin at 10:16 a.m. local. As of time of publishing, the plane was hitting 20 minutes late leaving the gate and counting, however.