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Hi Fly Malta - Wikipedia

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Hi Fly Malta

IATA	ICAO	Call sign
3L	HFM	MOONRAKER

Founded

2013; 11 years ago

AOC #

MT-24

Operating bases

Malta International Airport

Fleet size

Parent company

Hi Fly

Headquarters

Skyparks Business Centre^{[broken anchor]}, Malta International Airport

Website

hifly.aero

Hi Fly Malta is a Maltese charter airline based at Malta International Airport and a subsidiary of the Portuguese charter airline Hi Fly.

History

Hi Fly Malta started operations in early 2013 with one Airbus A340-600 formerly operated by Virgin Atlantic with one more pre-owned on order^[1]^[2] and planned to start scheduled operations to destinations in North America. During 2015, all of the airlines' aircraft had been stored and in May 2015 the A340-600s were sold to Al Naser Airlines, a front company for Mahan Air.^[3]

Hi Fly Malta was reactivated in September with the re-registration of one A340-300 from the parent Portuguese company on the Maltese Business Registry and a second A340-300 was added in early 2016 that had previously flown for Sri Lankan Airlines.^[4] Several former Emirates A340-300 airframes were added in 2017.

In the summer of 2018, Hi Fly became the first airline to buy a secondhand Airbus A380 (flown previously by Singapore Airlines^[5]), placing an order for two. In autumn 2017, Hi Fly, in a sponsorship of the Turn the Tide on Plastic yacht team in the Volvo Ocean Race, painted one of its A330s in a livery similar to the yacht, with the port side bearing a dirty oceans livery and the starboard side a clean oceans livery.^[6]^[7] On 19 July 2018, its newly painted Airbus A380, registered as 9H-MIP, arrived at the Farnborough Airshow, carrying the Save the Coral Reefs livery.^[8] Hi-Fly's A380 saw a brief lease to Norwegian Long Haul in August 2018, which operated the aircraft following engine problems with its Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet.^[9] Norwegian leased the A380 again in late 2018 to help deal with the passenger backlog as a result of the Gatwick Airport drone incident. In November 2020, the company announced that the A380 will be retired at the end of its three-year lease period and on 17 December 2020, the A380 made its final flight to Toulouse.^[10]

One A319 was chartered to the now-defunct Brazilian Itapemirim Transportes Aéreos. In November 2021, it landed at Rio de Janeiro–Galeão International Airport and re-registered as PS-SIL to be converted to passenger configuration at TAP Hangar, but this never happened. After 3 months in Brazil the aircraft was scheduled to fly back to Europe and had its registration reverted back to 9H-XFW.^[11]

Destinations

Hi Fly Malta has no scheduled destinations. Its planes operate on a charter and ACMI basis. One of its Airbus A340-300s (Registered 9H-TQM) was reconfigured for Swiss Space Systems prior to its liquidation, and retained a black livery with the Swiss Space Systems logo on the horizontal stabilizer prior to its retirement,^[4] while its other airframes are unmarked except for registration.

Fleet

Current fleet

As of May 2024^[update], Hi Fly Malta operates an all-Airbus fleet composed of the following aircraft:^[12]^[13]

Hi Fly Malta fleet
Aircraft	In service	Orders	Passengers					Notes
Aircraft	In service	Orders	F	C	W	Y	Total	Notes
Airbus A319-100	1	—	–	–	–	150	150	In storage^[14]
Airbus A330-200	4	—	–	18	36	214	268	Two units parked/under maintenance^[14]
Airbus A330-200	4	—	–	14	31	267	314	Two units parked/under maintenance^[14]
Airbus A330-300	2	—	–	46	–	203	249
Airbus A330-300	2	—	–	–	–	436	436
Airbus A340-300	4	—	12	42	–	213	267	Two units parked/under maintenance^[14]
			–	36	–	218	254
			–	24	–	267	291
Airbus A380			8	70	-	428	506	Operated for Global Airlines. Currently parked.^[14]
Airbus A380			12	60	-	399	470	Currently parked.^[14]
Total	11	—

Former fleet

Hi Fly Malta formerly also operated the following aircraft types:^[14]

Hi Fly Malta former fleet
Aircraft	Introduced	Retired
Airbus A321-200	2019	2021
Airbus A330-900	2019	2022
Airbus A340-600	2013	2015

References

^ "Hi Fly-ers head to Malta". Times of Malta. 25 February 2013.
^ "Hi Fly apply for Air Operator Certificate - The Malta Independent". www.independent.com.mt.
^ Mahan Air notice at airliners.de (in German)
^ ^a ^b Kaminski-Morrow2016-04-12T19:52:00+01:00, David. "Hi Fly supplies A340 for commercial zero-gravity flights". Flight Global. Retrieved 27 November 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ 9H-MIP Hi Fly Malta Airbus A380-800, https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/airbus-a380-800-9h-mip-hi-fly-malta/ek8yve
^ "New Turn the Tide on Plastic aircraft". Mirpuri Foundation. 20 October 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
^ "Portuguese Hi Fly acquires two used Airbus A380". www.airlive.net. Retrieved 2018-05-19.
^ "PICTURES: Colourful Hi Fly A380 makes Farnborough bow". FLIGHTGLOBAL. 19 July 2018.
^ Morris, Hugh. "Budget fliers to New York could be upgraded to luxurious first class after Norwegian forced to lease A380". The Telegraph Online. The Telegraph. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
^ hifly.aero - A380 Farewell Flight 17 December 2020
^ "Airliner lost brazilian license". 10 February 2022.
^ "fleet". hifly.aero. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
^ "Global Airline Guide 2019 (Part One)". Airliner World. October 2019: 20.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Hi Fly Malta Fleet Details and History". www.planespotters.net. Retrieved 6 April 2024.

External links

Media related to Hi Fly Malta at Wikimedia Commons
Official website Archived 2019-04-11 at the Wayback Machine

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