The Maltese airline Hifly Malta landed in Antarctica for the first time with an Airbus A340 long-haul jet. It was also generally the first landing of this type of machine on the freezing continent.

The Airbus A340-300 with the registration 9H-SOL was used. This long-haul aircraft took explorers and tourists from Cape Town to the Wolf's Fang Runway in Queen Maud Land. The A340-300 affected is stationed in Malta, but was not previously parked in Luqa, but in Beja, Portugal.

Hifly Malta transferred the 9H-SOL to Cape Town, South Africa. Since then, the four-jet engine has been flying to Antarctica almost linearly. Numerous flights have been carried out in the last few days. The official first landing of the aircraft type Airbus A340-300 on the continent of Antarctica took place on November 2, 2021.

Fun fact: The government of Malta recently put Antarctica on the Dark Red List. Specifically, this means that when you come out of the “eternal ice”, due to the corona pandemic, you have to be in a hotel quarantine for a fee for 14 days. There are no flight connections between Luqa and the Antarctic. Apart from the crews from Hifly Malta, the number of tourists is likely to be very limited. It is also considered unlikely that penguins would get lost across the Atlantic and the Mediterranean to Malta and then also care about the entry requirements ...