Air One has managed the delivery of 12-metre furnace coil boxes from Liège to Abu Dhabi through its affiliated British cargo airline, One Air.
The flight, on behalf Deugro Abu Dhabi, required a total of eight 12-metre boxes to be loaded through the nose door of a 747-400 freighter from One Air’s fleet.
The total weight of the oversized shipment was 57 tonnes.
Air One, which oversees a network of cargo airlines and aviation services, markets a fleet of 11 Boeing 747-400Fs for three airline partners. This includes two nose-loading versions of the cargo aircraft.
“The arrival of a second nose-loading 747-400 into our managed fleet at the end of 2024 increased our ability to transport out-of-gauge shipments like these for our customer, Deugro,” said Saeed Ghodrat, senior charter manager at Air One.
“Given our extensive knowledge of the 747-400’s cargo-carrying capabilities and our ability to coordinate loading and unloading at departure and arriving airports, we can respond to the need for fast charter services for out-of-gauge shipments as well as supporting flying programmes for projects which require a combination of general and outsize freighter capacity.”
Commenting on the delivery to Abu Dhabi, Pavel Kuznetsov, head of air chartering at Deugro, and Salvatore Bruno, air chartering manager at Deugro, stated: “The coordination was seamless from start to finish with clear and timely updates, no delays, and everything delivered exactly as planned.”
Ilyas Abdulla, head of business development & sales, Deugro Abu Dhabi, added: “We are pleased with the quality of service provided by AIR ONE, particularly their adherence to the schedule and the consistency of their updates.”
In the last five years, Air One has successfully organised over 3,750 full charters carrying more than 345,000 tonnes of cargo to more than 100 destinations globally.
One Air launched in April 2023 and currently has one Boeing 747-400F production freighter and two 747-400 passenger to freighter (P2F) aircraft. The airline also has a Boeing 777F on order.
Last year, the airline One Air said it was lobbying the UK government to establish a bilateral agreement with the European Union (EU) that makes it easier to source pilots, engineers and maintenance for its 747 operations.
In January this year, One Air carried out its first flight from the UK to the US.