Originally Posted by
Tu.114
Also, an A380 heading to the UK is in no way unusual - were it to be planned for repatriations, it would need to go where the repatriatees are, which is by definition not the UK.
There is one unusual thing with this A380 positioning - it positions using HiFly Malta callsign which happens rare to never, 99% case it will be customer airline call sign for positioning and de-positioning. So whatever they doing, it is not an airline who contracted them...