Airbus is creating a new airline using its Beluga 'Super Transporter' fleet to carry oversized cargo
TOULOUSE, France - After decades of flying large aircraft sections for the in-house assembly of Airbus planes, the BelugaST 'Super Transporter' is getting a second life hauling "outsized freight" for contract customers, Taylor Rains reports for Business Insider.
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27 Jan. 2022 -The new service - Airbus Beluga Transport - will provide commercially-contracted customers in a variety of sectors, including space, energy, military, aeronautic, maritime and humanitarian sectors, with a solution to their large cargo transport needs.
The first mission took place at the end of 2021 with a delivery from Airbus Helicopters’ manufacturing site in Marignane, France, to Kobe in Japan for an undisclosed customer. Beluga #3 stopped to refuel at Warsaw (Poland), Novosibirsk (Russia) and Seoul (Korea).
Once Airbus has commissioned all six new BelugaXLs, the fully-released Beluga fleet will be handed over to a newly-created, subsidiary airline with its own Air Operator Certificate (AOC) and staff.
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Jamie Whitney, Associate Editor
Intelligent Aerospace
