Borussia Dortmund departed for their fifth and last European fixture away trip in the group phase of season 2015/16 on Wednesday morning. The Airbus A321 of BVB Champion Partner Turkish Airlines was on the runway shortly after 10 am ready for departure.

The flight destination is about 2450 km away: Krasnodar in the south west of Russia, roughly four hours flight time. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Marco Reus, Shinji Kagawa and Joo-Ho Park are not on board, the same applies to Nuri Sahin and Erik Durm, who are getting back to fitness after long injury lay-offs.

The final training session will take place at 20:30 hrs local time (18:30 hrs CET) in the Kuban stadium. (br)