Hi Fly

Hi Fly
IATA code :	5K
ICAO code :	HFY
Call sign :	SKY FLYER
Founding:	2005
Seat:	Lisbon , Portugal
Home airport :	Beja Airport
Management:	Paulo Mirpuri
Fleet size:	18 (+ 12 orders)
Aims:	international
Website:	hifly.aero

Hi Fly is a Portuguese airline based in Lisbon and based at Beja Airport specializing in aircraft leasing . Hi Fly works on behalf of other airlines and leases planes and their entire crew.

history

In 1988, the Portuguese Mirpuri family founded the airline Air Luxor , which Paulo Mirpuri took over. At the beginning of October 2005 it was announced that the company would be renamed Hi Fly in the following year in order to differentiate it more clearly from Luxembourg's Luxair and Egyptian Luxor Air . Almost at the same time, the Portuguese-Canadian Longstock Financial Group submitted a takeover bid for Air Luxor, primarily interested in its ACMI leasing business . As a result, Paulo Mirpuri decided to split the airline. To this end, he founded Hi Fly at the end of October 2005 , to which Air Luxor's charter air traffic was outsourced. The Portuguese Civil Aviation Authority granted the new company an Air Operator Certificate in April 2006 . At the beginning of July 2006, Air Luxor, which until then had carried out operations for Hi Fly , was sold to the Longstock Financial Group at a price of 150 million euros.

In contrast to the initial planning, Hi Fly was hardly active in traditional charter traffic after the sale of its sister company Air Luxor, but primarily in the area of ​​ACMI leasing. Their first aircraft was an Airbus A330-300 taken over by Air Luxor , which was used on behalf of the Belgian Air Force . Two Airbus A310-300s leased by TAP were operated for Oman Air in 2008 on its flights from Muscat to London and Bangkok . From December 2008 Hi Fly took over several Airbus A330s and Airbus A340s , including two A340-500s. Both aircraft had been leased to the Nigerian Arik Air on a long-term basis , which they used until 2015. An A340-500 was then used for Norwegian and the Colombian Avianca .

In 2013 the company founded the Maltese subsidiary Hi Fly Malta , which took over its first aircraft in June 2013 with an Airbus A340-600.

Because Hi Fly landed an empty aircraft in the colors of Saudi Arabian Airlines at Israel 's Ben Gurion Airport for repair in May 2015 , the Saudi airline terminated its leasing contract with the Portuguese company.

In August 2017 it was announced that Hi Fly would like to take over two used Airbus A380s . Ultimately, the machines were added to the fleet of the subsidiary Hi Fly Malta.

Hi Fly is headquartered in an office building in downtown Lisbon , in which all departments for flight and ground operations, engineering and maintenance, security, commercial, financial, administrative and quality control are located. There are still training rooms for flight and cabin crew. There is a maintenance hall at Lisbon Airport, which is operated by the group subsidiary MESA.

Destinations

Hi Fly operates its aircraft worldwide within the framework of short to long-term ACMI agreements in wet lease for airlines, governments, tour operators , companies, football clubs and other clients.

fleet

Airbus A330-200 from Hi Fly in a special paint job "Volvo Ocean Race / Turn the Tide on Plastic"

Airbus A340-500 from Hi Fly

Airbus A380-800 from Hi Fly

As of August 2019, the Hi Fly fleet consists of 18 aircraft with an average age of 17.9 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats ( First / Business / Eco )
Airbus A319-100	3			144 (- / - / 144) 150 (- / - / 150)
Airbus A321-200	1		operated for the Belgian Air Force	153 (4/12/137)
Airbus A330-200	2	3	1 each operated for XL Airways France and Garuda Indonesia ; 2 are for the Nepal Airlines operate	266 (- / 24/242) 298 (- / 31/267)
Airbus A330-300	1			325 (- / 12/313)
Airbus A330-900	1	9	one operated for Air Senegal	- open -
Airbus A340-300	9		four inactive	254 (- / 36/218) 267 (12/42/213) 291 (- / 24/267)
Airbus A380-800	1		temporarily converted to an auxiliary freighter	471 (12/60/399)
total	18th	12

As part of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting increased demand in the air freight sector, the airline had its only Airbus A380 temporarily converted by Lufthansa Technik into an auxiliary freighter, thus providing space for a total of around 300 cubic meters of freight with a possible weight of up to 60 tons created. For this purpose, all seats in the economy class were removed.

Former aircraft types

• Airbus A310-300
• Airbus A320-200
• Airbus A340-500
• Airbus A340-600

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Hi Fly  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• HiFly website (in Portuguese, in English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Hi Fly helps to market the A380" , accessed on September 4, 2017
2. ^ History & Activity. Retrieved November 8, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Publico, Grupo luso-canadiano compra Air Luxor, July 4, 2006 (in Portuguese), accessed March 5, 2018
4. ↑ Rzjets, Hi Fly, Airbus A340-541, CS-TFX (in English), accessed on March 7, 2018
5. ↑ Rzjets, Hi Fly Malta, Airbus A340-642, 9H-SEA (in English), accessed on March 7, 2018
6. ↑ jpost.com - Saudi Arabia cancels contract with company that flew airliner to Israel (English) accessed on May 13, 2015
7. ↑ Portuguese airline takes over two A380 aerotelegraph.com. Retrieved August 3, 2018
8. ↑ Airliner World - Hi Fly: Portuguese Widebody ACMI Specialist, May 2013 edition
9. ↑ Hi Fly, Wet Leasing Business Unit , accessed on March 10, 2018
10. ↑ Hi Fly, Charter Business Unit , accessed on March 10, 2018
11. ↑ Hi Fly Fleet Details and History. Retrieved August 9, 2019 . 
12. ↑ A321, A330 & A340. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 7, 2018 ; Retrieved April 12, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ First A380 freighter flies for Hi Fly. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. July 7, 2020, accessed on July 9, 2020 (Swiss Standard German). 

Coordinates: 38 ° 43 '52.52 "  N , 9 ° 8' 50.81"  W.