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“After three years of successful operations around the world”, said the Hi Fly company when it announced that it was going to resign from the Airbus A380, “the decision not to extend the contract arises as a result of the covid-19 pandemic, which drastically reduced looking for such a big plane ”. The farewell day arrived this Thursday and was entitled to a flight, and a special “choreography”, which could be followed on the Fligth Radar platform: over the Atlantic, in front of Portugal, his flight drew a heart in the skies.
The plane arrived in Beja on Wednesday afternoon, “after successfully completing its last commercial mission in the service of Hi Fly,” the company said. This mission went through Shanghai, Seoul and Hamburg. This morning we took to the skies for the last flight in Portugal, the last take-off from Beja airport, the only one in mainland Portugal where it was authorized to land (in the Azores, also in Lajes), bound for Toulouse, France.
Everyone wanted to see the world’s largest passenger plane arrive at the Alentejo. It landed without passengers, in a generally empty airport, but dragged so many spectators that the roads were jammed with lines for miles.
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Celebrated as “the largest passenger aircraft in the world”, the A380 landed in Alentejo for the first time in 2018, after being greeted at a party, with thousands of people flocking to see the plane. “A pregnant plane arrived at the airport” was the great title of the PUBLIC for this historical moment of an airport with a turbulent history and few joys.
The plane was in the service of the Portuguese company Hi Fly, one of the 15 in the world that operated such a giant of the skies. But Hi Fly reported that due to the crisis caused by the pandemic, the contract of lease the A380 would end by the end of the year. In the configuration used by the company, 471 passengers could be transported. Airbus had already announced the end of production of the device.
Especially for the company, for the Beja airport and for the many aviation fans in Portugal, it is clear that this will be a plane that will remain in memory. And in the heart.
