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Airships were the height of travel innovation in the 1920s and 1930s, circumnavigating the globe as one of the most exciting ways to travel. Now, we’re reinventing this technology to face modern environmental challenges while offering new vantage points on pristine wilderness.
Celebrating the Golden Age of travel
Life aboard an OceanSky airship will send you back to when airship travel was the height of opulence and adventure. Experience the best in comfort and culinary craft while taking in views that haven’t been experienced in a century.
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Traveling with a light footprint
Discover the future of sustainable travel with airships. CEO Carl Oscar Lawaczeck of OceanSky Cruises highlights their ultra-low emissions, and superior comfort. Airships offer a greener, more luxurious way to explore the world.
Gennadiy Verba: “Airships will pioneer the sustainable way of air transportation”
Interview to Gennadiy Verba, President at Atlas LTA Advanced Technology. We talk about the ATLANT and the future of sustainable aviation through airships.
Airships for Northern Transport in Canada
Discover why airships could be the solution to the challenge in bringing goods to remote areas.
Flying with the wind
In this article, we'll explore what it's like to fly with the wind into the deep wilderness and travel with a smaller footprint on board a large-scale airship.
Svalbard, the remote kingdom of the polar bear
Discover Svalbard, a remote Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic that is going to be OceanSky Cruises' base of operations between March and October and the starting point of our epic airship expedition to the North Pole.
Jesper Vollmer: “There has to be a connection between the story of the journey and the food experience”
Jesper Vollmer, the former chef to the Danish royal family for 10 years will be in charge of designing the menus that our guests will enjoy during their expedition to the North Pole by airship.
Humanity needs to build a lot of airships
Read a summary of the webinar given by Carl-Oscar Lawaczeck at the "Airships to the Arctic 2022" symposium hosted by the University of Manitoba, Canada.
The North Pole Expedition of Umberto Nobile and the Airship Italia
94 years have passed since that distant 25th of May 1928, when the airship Italia, one of the greatest successes of Italian technology and exploration, crashed on the ice.
Experiential travel will ignite the Airship Industry and provide an alternative in aviation
Experiential Travel will ignite the airship industry and provide an alternative in aviation. Discover in this article the vision of our CEO, Carl-Oscar Lawaczeck on the future of the Airship industry.
George Land: “New technologies like Hybrid Aircraft will reshape how the world thinks about flying”
Interview to George Land, Commercial Business Development Director at Hybrid Air Vehicles about the Airlander and the future of sustainable aviation through airships.
The lightness of the journey
In the 20s, the flight of large airships was elitist and inaccessible to most. It seemed to be the flying transposition of the luxury style of the transatlantic liners of the past.
Pioneering the new era of sustainable travel
OceanSky Cruises hosted the conference “The Revival of Airships: Pioneering the new era of sustainable travel” on a roundtable that has taken place at the Swedish Pavilion in ExpoDubai.
Airships – Trains of the sky
Airships are commonly compared to airplanes, probably because both are aerial vehicles. However, that’s where the similarities end. Airships are better compared to trains from a passenger’s perspective.
Why we should fly airships in the future
Will we fly on airships or airplanes in a future of sustainable aviation? The answer will affect the direction of billions of dollars in future investments for aviation hardware and design.
Carl-Oscar Lawaczeck: “We need to transform aviation and we’re going to do so through Airships”
We interview Carl-Oscar Lawaczeck, OceanSky Cruises Founder and CEO, to talk abou his vision to fly the great airships again and to pioneer a new era of sustainable aviation.
Which was the world’s first airline?
Discover the history of the the world's first airline. On November16 1909, DELAG was established. Its first flight was with the airship LZ6.
Why are Airships safe?
Carl-Oscar Lawaczeck, CEO and Founder at OceanSky Cruises, explains in this article why airships can become a very safe travel option in the future.
“It’s about the journey, not the destination”
Extract from the participation of Dereck Joubert, award winning filmmaker, conservationist, National Geographic explorer and Founder at Great Plains Conservation, in the roundtable “The Revival of Airships” at ExpoDubai on November 11th 2021.
The N-1 Norge, the first aircraft to fly over the North Pole
Discover the story behind the N-1 Norge, the first aircraft to fly over the North Pole in 1926
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