Hifly

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Hifly is a charter airline based in Lisbon in Portugal once known as Air Luxor. It has a limited range of scheduled flights but operates substantial charter flights for Air Luxor Tours which was established in 2001 and is owned by Hifly. It also operates on demand cargo flights and has a business aviation and air ambulance division. Its main base is Portela International Airport, Lisbon.

Contents

1 Code data
2 History
3 Services
4 Fleet
5 External links

Code data

IATA Code: Y4
ICAO Code: HFY
Callsign: Luxor

History

Hifly is a privately-owned Portuguese airline company, established in December 1988 by the Mirpuri family which at the time, owned a small fleet of private aircraft, At the end of the 1980s it was decided to transform the family's private aviation department into an airline company. In 1997 the company extended its operations to commercial aviation, first in the charter sector and then, in 2001, to the scheduled flight sector. In October 2003, a marketing concept called Air Luxor Light was introduced offering budget operations.

In January 2005 it was announced that Hifly had signed a cooperation agreement with LAM - Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique to launch a joint weekly flight between Lisbon and Maputo using an Air Luxor A330-300 in April 2005.

In November 2005, Air Luxor rebranded itself as Hifly Airlines. In May 2006, it has given up its Lisbon-Paris Orly, Lisbon-Praia and Porto-Paris Orly routes and returned one of its Airbus 330-300 to the lessor. French airline Aigle Azur is reportedly considering taking over the ailing Portuguese carrier.

Services

Hifly operates the following services (at June 2006):

Charter and seasonal routes include: Antigua, Athens, Barcelona, Belfast, Bournemouth, Bradford, Cancún, Cardiff, Châteauroux, Cork, Dakar, Dijon, Dubai, Fortaleza, Geneva, Glasgow, Humberside, Hurghada, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Le Havre, Limoges, Luton, Luxor, Maceió, Maldives, Monastir, Nantes, Natal, Newcastle, New York, Norwich, Palma de Mallorca, Phuket, Pointe-à-Pitre, Providence, Punta Cana, Sal, Salvador, Shannon, Tenerife, Toulouse and Varadero.

In February 2005 it was reported that Hifly were planning to start a daily Airbus A320-200 service from Lisbon to Ponta Delgada in March 2005.

Fleet

The Hifly fleet consists of the following aircraft (at July 2006):

1 Airbus A330-300
1 Cessna Citation X
1 Dassault Falcon 20
1 Dassault Falcon 900B

In February 2005 it was reported that Hifly were planning to add a Boeing 747-200 to its fleet in May 2005.

External links

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