Her name is Milagros Díaz, a unique name for a Boeing that previously wore another name: Paraguay. It was one of the 757 that Iberia bought directly from the manufacturer Boeing at the end of the 90s and that it kept in its fleet between 1999 and 2007, when it withdrew it after thousands of flight hours through Spain and Europe. One summer 16 years ago, Chema Álvarez from Orensa took that plane, another twin, and incorporated them into his small airline: Privilege Style, an operator of on-demand flights specializing in reinforcement for other airlines, transportation of corporations and important sports teams on their national and international trips. Some names of the aircraft in the fleet have been chosen by Álvarez himself and others have emerged from queries on social networks, such as the Boeing 777 and 767 Auria and Eduardo Barreiros in clear memory of Ourense. An Airbus A321 was named Eliseo Borrás as a heartfelt tribute to a retired pilot from his company affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and the Boeing 757 Milagros Díaz is named after Álvarez's mother.
A very serious and concentrated women's FC Barcelona expedition flew last Thursday from El Prat T2 towards Eindhoven. She did it aboard the Milagros Díaz to play the final of the UEFA Women's Champions League against VfL Wolfsburg. The game was played at the PSV Stadium, a field that is only eight kilometers from Eindhoven airport, the second Dutch airport in number of passengers, only far behind Amsterdam-Schiphol.
After leaving Barça in the Netherlands, the plane flew to Dublin to carry out a series of flights contracted by Aer Lingus to Dubrovnik and Malaga from the Irish capital. He then picked up Barça in Eindhoven and returned with the team and the newly won cup to Barcelona. Intermediate flights for another airline on June 2 and 3 to Croatia and Andalusia, prevented the plane from being decorated on the outside with the colors of FC Barcelona, a detail that the company offers to corporations or teams that fly with it, vinyling part of the fuselage with the name, shield or logo of the transported group.
The EC-HDS with which Barça has returned home has carried the name and shield of the Spanish soccer team several times. In fact, upon the return of the 2008 Euro Cup, that same Boeing 757 wore a special decoration celebrating the return of the champions to Spain after beating Germany 0-1. The plane has also sported the image and names of teams such as Real Madrid, Espanyol or Athletic Bilbao for your trips. The colors of the aircraft, with the appearance of a private aircraft, give the sensation of being the aircraft of the sports team it transports and that is one of the characteristics that the company likes to influence: exterior and interior customization.
This customization is something of a round trip, since there are teams that especially ask to fly in that Boeing 757 tribute to Milagros, which they consider a talisman or 'the plane of Los Milagros'. This is the case of Atlético de Madrid and Sevilla, who are regular customers. Although sometimes they also fly in the other Privilege planes, there is a special preference for the 757 in which they fly with respect and tension on the way out, while on the way back, if they win, they fly with joy and more calm. In the case of Sevilla, the Privilege commander Alejandro Díaz de Movellán has also become the team's official pilot and they fly with him on almost all their trips and then celebrate victories on their way to the capital of Andalusia. Almost all the Europa League that have returned to San Pablo airport with Sevilla Futbol Club have flown with Privilege.
With the two flights this week, the first calm and the second festive, the women's FC Barcelona could also begin a long aeronautical-sports relationship with Privilege and its 'aircraft of miracles'.
