LISBON, Portugal - Hi Fly is the first charter airline in the world to have an A380, which is an awesome concept as an avgeek, but questionable otherwise. Hi Fly acquired this A380 after Singapore Airlines chose not to renew the lease on its first A380 after 10 years. The plane has the registration code 9H-MIP, reports One Mile at a Time. Continue reading original article.
The Intelligent Aerospace take:
July 9, 2020 -Amid the coronavirus pandemic, carriers are having difficulty filling their fleets of Airbus A380 superjumbos. In March, German carrier Lufthansa reported being able to fill only 35% of the seats in the jet which it had outfitted with 509 seats. A year before the COVID-19 outbreak Airbus announced that it would be ending production of the passenger jet in 2021 after Emirates reduced its order from 162 to 123 aircraft.
While there is plenty of useful life left in the passenger craft, Portugal's Hi Fly have retrofitted the superjumbo to be a cargo craft and have released a video (see below) showing how they have laid it out.Â
