This year’s World Cup features an unprecedented 104 matches after FIFA expanded the competition to include 48 teams. By the tournament’s end, Gianni Infantino will have attended nearly half of them.
To do so, the FIFA president has flown about 57,700 miles between the three host countries — Canada, Mexico and the US — on a luxury Gulfstream G650ER operated by Qatar Airways that FIFA pays to use, according to a Bloomberg calculation of the shortest distance between airports based on numbers from JetSpy, an aviation data provider.
That’s equivalent to taking 23 flights between Los Angeles and New York, or lapping Earth’s equator twice.
