A Vueling plane earlier, not flying over Barcelona star Lionel Messi's house.
Lionel Messi is proving unbeatable both on the pitch and off it with Barcelona's El Prat airport expansion discarded because it would have led to more air traffic above his mansion in the coastal town of Castelldefels.
While it has been reported that the project of adding a new runway located close to the sea, near the towns of Gava and Castelldefels, was turned down for environmental and financial reasons, the president of Spanish low-cost airline Vueling offered a different perspective.
"You cannot pass over where Messi lives," Javier Sanchez-Prieto said during a talk at Barcelona's ESADE university. "This doesn't happen anywhere else in the world."
Vueling, based at El Prat de Llobregat, has hubs in Barcelona-El Prat Airport and Rome's Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport.
Messi's home is in the exclusive Bellamar neighbourhood, 20 kilometres south-west of Barcelona.
Ya en casa con la familia y unos buenos mates !!!! Los amo