The mighty Airbus A340 widebody four-engine jet has been flying around the world since it entered service in the early 1990s, but its destinations have never included the remote continent of Antarctica. Until now.
Wet-lease commercial aircraft company Hi Fly checked that box on November 2, with a first-of-its-kind flight from Cape Town, South Africa, (FACT) to Antarctica’s blue glacial landing strip known as Wolf’s Fang Runway (WFR, no ICAO code).
