Tour company White Desert uses private jets to shuttle people to its Antarctic camps from South Africa. The largest option is the quad-engine Airbus A340, which touched down on the ice for the first ...

Every year, hundreds of scientists, athletes, and tourists travel to Antarctica on passenger jetliners. These planes land on rugged, unpaved runways mostly made of blue ice and compacted snow. Norse ...

I boarded a Hi Fly A340 chartered for White Desert Antarctica (Tour Operator) to fly to the seventh continent; Antarctica. The flight time from Cape Town to Wolf’s Fang Runway in Antarctica is 5 hours ...

Portuguese wet-lease specialist Hi Fly has flown an Airbus A330-300 to Antarctica, claiming a first for the twinjet type. The carrier’s operated the aircraft – registered to its Maltese division – ...