A380 owner at Aviation Club

Paulo Mirpuri, owner of rapidly-expanding Portuguese charter airline HiFly, was joined at the Aviation Club last week by his wife Luiza. Both are fully-qualified doctors.

In some ways, Mirpuri's and HiFly's success can be paralleled with that of Stelios Haji-Ioannou at easyJet: Wealthy fathers supporting their offspring to get them started in business. However, here the comparison stops.  Mirpuri these days puts much energy into environmental projects, including the world’s first plastic-free flights.

For the most part, HiFly does not own aircraft but operates them on behalf of investors. It is the only A380 charter company.

"There will be a lot of A380s coming back into the market in the next 10 years," he said. "We believe that HiFly is a good platform to manage those assets for their owners and create value for their owners and for our clients."

Mirpuri’s view is that the pre-used A380s will be operated from airports not on the scheduled airlines' itineraries and open up a new market. “Passengers love it” he added, noting that to make it work up to 650 passengers would need to be accommodated.

HiFly will take delivery of the first of two leased Airbus A330-900neos shortly as it finalises plans to order ten of the aircraft via Air Lease Corporation.

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