The Portuguese airline Hi Fly, specialized in renting planes to other airlines or for charters, informs that it landed once again in Antarctica with a widebody (wide-body airplane, in other words, two-aisle).
The operation was carried out last Sunday, 5 November, with the Airbus A340-300 registered under registration number 9H-TQZ, flying from Cape Town, in South Africa, para Wolf’s Fang, the only exclusively private jet runway on the frozen continent.
The trip, of 2.500 nautical miles (4.630 km), took just over five hours each way. The aircraft was used this season to transport a small number of tourists, alongside scientists and essential cargo.
The first time Hi Fly flew the A340 to Antarctica, on a historic flight, also marking the first landing of an Airbus widebody aircraft on the continent, was 2021 with the A-380.
