If you are a player at Copa America, you travel in your own plane. Like in the photo above in San Juan airport. That was the private plane for the Mexico team.
If you are an important political figure in Argentina, you also travel in your own plane. Plus you get armed protection. Like in the photo below in San Juan airport.
If you are Sebastian Vu, you travel with normal schedule flights with Aerolineas Argentina and often during Copa America, these flights are full of media and less important football officials.
Today, I had a schedule flight at 13.40 from Buenos Aires to Jujuy. I got to the airport early and got my boarding pass.
While waiting to find out which gate the flight would leave from, I noticed that many flights were delayed, cancelled, and only a few were leaving on time. Mine was leaving on time.
Until 13.15. The board said for my flight, please contact the airlines. I was waiting with lots of Bolivian fans and some Argentina officials and we all went back to the ticket counter to get more information.
When we got there, the public announcement said that due to the ash cloud from a volcano in Chile, all flights were suspended until 18.00
With Bolivia vs Costa Rica kick-off set at 19.15, there was no way I would get to the game.
So I went to the bus station and bought an one-way ticket to Salta where I have ticket for Venezuela vs Ecuador on Saturday.
The bus will only take 22 hours. I am excited to go on this trip to see the pampas and may be I will meet some nice people on the bus.
more from Salta tomorrow
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