Meet the SPECIAL Airbus plane for Argentina carrying World Cup champion Lionel Messi

The FIFA World Cup 2022 winners team Argentina and its star Leonel Messi are on their way back to Buenos Aires after lifting the prestigious trophy on December 18, 2022 (Sunday) after thrashing France in the finals. The team is being transported in a special private plane operated by Aerolíneas Argentinas wearing a unique livery featuring Team Argentina and its players. The airline is operating an Airbus A330 plane with LV-FVH registration plate. 

Not only the livery, but this plane is special in many ways! Operating from Doha to Buenos Aires, the flight will travel via Rome covering 11,135 km. The Rome-Buenos Aires leg is one of the longest flights operated by an Airbus A330 and will take more than 13.5 hrs.

As per various flight tracking websites, including Flight Radar 24 among others, the Airbus is currently the most tracked flight in the world.