"Air Luxor" redirects here. For the now-defunct Egyptian airline, see
Luxor Air.
Hi Fly is an airline with its head office in Lisbon, Portugal,[1] which has specialised in the worldwide aircraft lease on medium to long term contracts for airlines, tour operators, governments, companies and individuals.[2] The airline's main centre of flight operations is Portela Airport.
[edit] History
Air Luxor logo, which was used until 2005.
The airline was founded as Air Luxor in December 1988, a corporate jet charter department of Mirpuri Group, which was headquartered at Luxor Square in Lisbon (thus the airline's name). In 1997, the airline was reorganized towards offering commercial charter flights. Scheduled flights were first operated in 2001. In 2003, Air Luxor announced the launch of scheduled low cost flights under the Air Luxor Light branding. When the company suffered from deep financial troubles in late 2005, it was refounded as Hi Fly with new funding from Mirpuri Group, from then on fully concentrating on aircraft lease services.
As of December 2010, the Hi Fly fleet consists of the following aircraft with an average of 11.9 years:[3]
[edit] Fleet development
Over the years, the Air Luxor/Hi Fly fleet consisted of these aircraft types:[4][5]
[edit] Incidents and accidents
- On 10 May 1998, an Air Luxor Lockheed L-1011 aircraft enroute from Toronto, Canada to Lisbon was hijacked shortly after takeoff, and the pilots demanded to divert the aircraft to the United States. The pilots returned to Toronto instead, where the aircraft was stormed by police forces and the perpetrators could be overpowered, without any notable injuries amongst the passengers and crew on board.[6]
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