Qatar 2022 World Cup: Aerolíneas Argentinas has put up for sale a flight to see the national team in the final and it was sold out in record time

With the ranking of the Argentine national team at the Qatar 2022 World Cup final, the fans celebrated on the balconies, honked the horn in all the streets of the country and gathered at the Obelisk to sign their blue-and-white dream. in the midst of all the noise, Aerolíneas Argentinas has made a proposal hard to refuse richer pockets: a emergency flight departing for the final of the World Cup in Doha. He sold out in record time, with a price only for the chosen ones.

The plane departs from the international airport of Ezeiza Friday at 8.20 the morning. The journey takes 20 hours and 10 minutes. After a short stop, arrive in Doha, Qatar, Saturday at 10.30with enough time to settle in and try to find a ticket to the Qatar 2022 World Cup Final at Lusail Stadium.

After 18:30 availability was already low: they were there only two Plus fare seats on the Airbus A330. Although the taste was expensive, the flight soon sold out.

The price it reached $1,450,241. The value for an adult was $694,022, with an additional sum of fees of $756,318.40.

A few minutes before 7:00 pm, the state airline’s ticket search system showed no availability. Those who want to get there the day after the definitionthey can still reserve their seat for a small price: $837,545.

Strictly speaking, according to sources of the state company, the flight had been available and published for several days, as part of the sale of tickets Buenos Aires-Doha to the rhythm of the Scaleneta.

As of this Tuesday, half of the ticket had already been sold. But in the afternoon -with the confirmation that the Selection would play- they sold 170 of the remaining 280 tickets in just half an hour.

Argentina will play the Qatar 2022 World Cup final at full capacity.

Tickets to the final, the subject of insomnia

The football fervor of the Argentines has overwhelmed the sale of tickets for the matches of the national team. The tickets corresponding to La Scaloneta in the first phase were among the first to sell out, at the end of last September. Argentina was, therefore, the country that collected the fastest tickets.

At the same time, the availability for the most coveted match was emptied: the final on Sunday 18 December.

As passion far outweighs stadium capacity, Argentine fans have struggled in recent days to get tickets to see the national team.

For the semi-final against Croatia, FIFA has opened the virtual window. But the demand was very high. And there was no price to stop the fans who say they are present in Qatar. The cheapest (category 3) was $357. Category 2 went up to $660. And at the top, category 1, the price skyrocketed: $955.

One of the envoys clarion verified that on WhatsApp, resale started at $800. Demand drove that value over $900. But interested parties also played with haggling and over time, knowing ticket holders would loosen up as the Argentina match neared. -Croatia.

There is also a legal way for resale – the Official FIFA Ticket Resale Platform.

As the purchase of tickets for the knockout phase was made without knowing yet which teams would qualify and where they would qualify, FIFA offered this channel to fans of already excluded teams.

Upon completion of the resale, the original purchaser receives a partial refund of the ticket.

This system works until Sunday 18 December, the day of the final.

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