The Beluga line marked an important step for Airbus, but high costs and operational demands were too difficult to meet.

On July 22, an Airbus Beluga freighter was forced to divert to Cologne after the crew received a cargo smoke indication ...

Airbus has shut down its new for-hire cargo airline focused on transporting oversize shipments using the odd-shaped Beluga superfreighter because of self-described operational challenges and what ...

Airbus would put aside a small budget of 1 billion euros for the project, for development and production. they would call the project the A330-743L, or Beluga XL!

Airbus has pointed to operational issues as the primary reason for its decision to close its specialised A300-600ST Beluga cargo airline, little more than a year after obtaining certification.

The Airbus Beluga, one of the world’s strangest airplanes, now has its own airline. The odd-looking, oversized cargo plane — a favorite among planespotters around the world — has been in ...

Airbus Beluga Transport had intended to use the five A300-600STs to offer transport of loads such as satellites, engines or helicopters, after the availability of other high-capacity types ...

In May 2024, CNN quoted Airbus Beluga Transport's Benoît Lemonnier as noting that the Beluga family's initial purpose was to "transport large sections of Airbus aircraft from its factories in ...

The Beluga — billed by Airbus as the world’s biggest cargo plane in terms of volume transported — looks something like a whale, with a rounded fuselage mounted on an Airbus A300-600 base.

Longer and bigger than the ST, the Beluga XL is capable of carrying both wings, rather than just one, of the Airbus A350, the company’s latest long-haul aircraft that rivals the Boeing 787 and 777.