Airbus Launches Air-Cargo Service Using BelugaST Jets
January 25 2022 - 10:37AM
Dow Jones News
By Olivia Bugault
Airbus SE said Tuesday that it has launched an air-cargo service
that will use its fleet of Beluga aircraft to transport outsized
freight.
The new "Airbus Beluga Transport" service will progressively
operate Airbus's five BelugaST--which have a maximum payload of 40
tons and were used until now for the inter-site transportation of
large aircraft parts--to carry outsize loads for customers in
sectors such as energy, space and military, the European plane
maker said.
Its whale-shaped BelugaST airliners will be replaced by a fleet
of six new-generation BelugaXLs with a capacity of 44 tons that
will "support Airbus's ramp-up of its airliner production," it
said.
"In the near future, once Airbus has commissioned all six new
BelugaXLs, the fully-released BelugaST fleet will be handed over to
a newly-created, subsidiary airline with its own Air Operator
Certificate (AOC) and staff," Airbus said.
Write to Olivia Bugault at olivia.bugault@wsj.com
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