SEAN Dyche played down Burnley's travel chaos ahead of their Europa League tie with Aberdeen tonight.

The Clarets were due to fly out from Manchester on Wednesday afternoon but a technical issue with their private plane meant they didn't take off until around 7pm.

That forced the cancellation of a planned pre-match press conference and visit to Pittodrie on Wednesday night, with Dyche and his players visiting the ground at 10.30am on Thursday instead.

"We’ve all been delayed at airports, and even when you get a private flight, sometimes there are technical problems, so that’s all that was," Dyche said of the delay.

"The lads all live in south west Manchester anyway, so they popped home for a couple of hours, so it wasn’t a big drama.

"It’s standard stuff, we’ve all been to airports, it beggars belief that somebody has never had a delay at an airport.

"We got on the flight and got up here last night in plenty of time to have a bit of food."

The squad took the chance to have a look at the Pittodrie pitch and changing rooms on Thursday morning.

"We were allowed in last night but we chose not to, if it was a much longer journey we might have considered that," said Dyche.

"Because it’s relatively short we just decided to give them a look at it, most of our players haven’t been up here, I haven’t been up here, I know about Aberdeen and the history but I’ve never been up here.

"It was just to familiarise ourselves with it, when they get here tonight they know what they’re looking at, the size of the pitch is different, they can’t get it as big as it should be physically, it’s a chance to look around the changing rooms, get a feel of it, so tonight it’s something they’ve seen and they know about."