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. In concrete terms, this means that anyone coming from the "eternal ice" has to spend 14 days in a paid hotel quarantine due to the corona pandemic. There are no flight connections between Luqa and Antarctica. Apart from crews from Hifly Malta, the number of tourists is likely to remain very limited. It is also considered unlikely that penguins would stray across the Atlantic and the Mediterranean to Malta and then care about the entry regulations...
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