Wednesday, June 16, 2010

How the teams flew to the 2010 World Cup

In an effort to find a way to combine World Cup soccer/football into my professional life (as well as my obsession with aviation) I've put together an - almost complete - table of how 31 of 32 national teams traveled to South Africa. With the help of Apture, I've linked to details about each team and photos of the specific aircraft (if known). So there's no confusion, the teams are listed in order of their respective pots for the tournament.

A very special thanks to Gavin Werbeloff for his assistance in putting this list together. If anyone has additional details or updates to this chart, feel free to leave a comment and I'll make the change.


Airline Aircraft Route
South Africa HOST

Brazil TAM A330-200 (PT-MVN) CWB-BSB-JNB
Spain Iberia A340-600 MAD-JNB
Netherlands Air France
A380-800 AMS-CDG-JNB
Italy Alitalia 777-200ER MXP-JNB AZ8080
Germany Lufthansa A380-800 (D-AIMA) FRA-JNB LH2010
Argentina SAA A340-200 or 300
England Virgin Atlantic A340-600 (G-VRED) LHR-JNB
Australia Qantas 747-400 (VH-OJS) MEL-JNB
Japan JAL 747-400 NRT-GVA-CPT
Korea DPR SAA A340-300
Korea Republic SAA A340-600 ICN-NRT-VIE-JNB
Honduras TACA / TAM
TGU-SAL-LIM-GRU-JNB

Mexico Lufthansa B747-400 FRA-JNB
United States SAA A340-600 IAD-JNB
New Zealand Emirates GRZ-FRA-DXB-JNB
Algeria Air Algerie A330-200 (7T-VJW) ALG-JNB
Cameroon MD-80?
Côte d'Ivoire
Ghana SAA A340-600
Nigeria Arik Air A340-500 LHR-DUR
Chile LAN
767-300ER (CC-CWG) SCL-MQP (LAN1356)

Paraguay SAA


Uruguay Hi Fly A340-300 (CS-TQM) MVD-EZE-JNB
Denmark Swiss A340-300 (HB-JMO)
France Blue Line A310-300 (F-HBOY) RUN-JNB
Greece Hellenic Imperial Airways B747-200B
Portugal TAP Portugal A340-300 (CS-TOC) LIS-JNB
Serbia SAA A340-600
Slovakia
Slovenia
Switzerland SWISS A340-300 (HB-JMN) ZRH-JNB LX288

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