COBUS 3000 with air conditioning in driver's and passengers' cabin
News
June 2020
COVID-19 – Distance Restrictions
Keep the required distance by still servicing a reasonable number of passengers – possible with our COBUS
May 2020
Via San Diego seaport, USA to Tijuana Airport, Mexico
Our three COBUS 3000 at San Diego seaport waiting for their onward transportation to Tijuana Airport in Mexico. We also gladly serve our customers in times of corona pandemic.
May 2020
COBUS and its CO-BOLT System
Our COBUS has an aluminum body made of the unique CO-BOLT system which guarantees a vehicle lifetime of 25 years and is due to its plug-in and screw connections easy to maintain and repair, if necessary. An unbeatable plus of our COBUS!
May 2020
COBUS on the Ramp
We look forward to beeing with you again soon at international airports!
May 2020
COBUS as COVID-19 testing unit
Our COBUS airport bus in a completely new mission as a mobile testing station for Covid-19 infections – bearing enough space inside for keeping security distance. Our testing unit is in operation in the district of Matosinhos, Portugal. With joined efforts we will fight against the pandemic. Please, stay healthy!
New COBUS models
The COBUS family gets bigger again
At the end of 2019, we launched with great pride the new generation of our COBUS 2700 and 2700S – along with a COBUS 2700 First Class and a special model COBUS 3000 “XL” – at the Interairport in Munich from Oct. 8-11, 2019. As launching customer for our new COBUS 2700 model we were pleased to gain OmiServ at Gatwick International Airport!
Our Highlights from 2019
Milestones
Thanks to all of you we had a record year with more than 300 COBUS models being delivered throughout the world! Really great – thank you! We were able to serve very large orders from the Middle East. COBUS no. 4,000 was delivered to our esteemed customer Emirates Airlines.
In Taiwan, we gladly delivered two COBUS 3000 to our new customer: Starlux Airlines! Welcome to the COBUS family! Our customer SEA placed their first order for 13 e.COBUS 3000 for their operation at Malpensa and Linate International Airport – thanks a lot!
COBUS is not only present at airports, but also in the skiing resort of Copper Mountain Colorado! We were happy to deliver COBUS no. 7, 8 and 9! Inside of Germany we gained two new customers: Hamburg Airport and FRAPORT, located at Frankfurt International Airport. Also: Welcome to the COBUS family!
COBUS Team News
Our Sales Team in Focus Today
Otabek Djuraev, our Junior Sales Manager, started to work for COBUS in January last year. He was born in Uzbekistan and due to the language skills and cultural background, he will take over Russian speaking sales territories in the mid-term. Currently, he gets a more in-depth and profound knowledge of the aviation market and is our specialist for electric buses.
Otabek studied electrical engineering and information technology (BSc) and gained professional experience in the sales back office support with Continental AG.
In his spare time, Otabek enjoys going to the gym and doing team sports, particularly football. Also, guitar playing and gardening, especially the cultivation of Bonsai trees, belong to his favorite activities.
COBUS Team News
Our Sales Team in Focus Today
Laila Engler is the only female Sales Manager we have in our sales team at present. She studied business engineering with industrial engineering and worked for the GSE industry already before she joined our team. Laila takes care of our customers on the American continent, in the Netherlands, Ireland and in the United Kingdom.
In her leisure time, Laila enjoys any kind of sports that can be done in the air or on the water, e.g. yacht boat racing.
COBUS Team News
Our Sales Team in Focus Today
Katja Ellmén, our Assistant in the sales back office, was born and raised in Lahti (Finland) and has been living in Germany since 1995. She worked in various areas of the tourism industry and the airlines sector before joining COBUS Industries in July last year. Katja supports the head of our sales department as well as all our sales managers in their daily work.
In her private life Katja cooks passionately, relaxes with yoga, keeps fit with cycling and skiing and likes to travel to nearby and distant countries.
March 2020
COBUS Shuttle at Bangkok International Airport
Our colleague, Katja Ellmén, was picked up by a COBUS 2700S of Thai Airways when coming back from Phuket and brought to the terminal at Bangkok International Airport on February 22, 2020. Thanks, Thai Airways, for taking good care of our colleague!
February 2020
Chopin International Airport
Ready to go! A whole fleet of COBUS airport buses at Chopin International Airport Warsaw, Poland, are waiting for their first jobs to start with into this new week!
February 2020
Exhibition – NAIS 2020 – Moscow, Russia
Our sales manager, Peter Heuberger, is currently participating at the NAIS 2020 exhibition in Moscow, Russia, from Feb. 5-6, 2020. He is available for you at booth no. B400 and will gladly welcome you there anytime. Come and visit him!
February 2020
Welcome COBUS at Dubai International Airport
A COBUS 2500 Business Class of FLYDUBAI brought our Managing Director, Patricia Vasconcelos, to her aircraft at Dubai International Airport. Thanks, Flydubai, for this great service! She enjoyed it a lot!
January 2020
2 COBUS 3000 at Hamburg Airport
Thanks to friends of our Sales Manager, Laila Engler, we are able to share this nice snapshot with you. It was taken at Hamburg Airport some days ago. We wish these two silver-grey beauties a good time in the north of Germany!
December 2019 – Year’s End
Merry Christmas
This year has passed by so fast that it is once again time to thank all our customers and business partners for their trust provided and their loyalty shown in our COBUS! The whole COBUS team wishs you a Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year! See you again in 2020!
December 2019
Two brand-new COBUS for Sarajevo Airport
This photo shows a brand-new COBUS 2700S VIP which has been shipped to Sarajevo Airport these days. A new COBUS 3000 was also delivered to Sarajevo already one month ago. With these two COBUS we trust having delivered excellent and comfortable tools in terms of passenger transportation to Sarajevo Airport!
November 2019
Pre-Delivery Inspection of 4 COBUS 3000 by Nepal Airlines
These days a delegation from Nepal Airlines inspected their 4 COBUS 3000 in our factory in Porto, Portugal, prior to their shipment to Tribhuvan Airport in Kathmandu where they will soon offer passengers a safe and comfortable ride. The photo shows Mr Raj Kumar Shrestha, Deputy Director of Nepal Airlines. Thanks a lot for your kind visit to our factory, Mr Shrestha!
Attention – Attention – Attention
FRAUDULENT ACTIVITIES!
We have been informed about illegal activities in India using COBUS as a method to obtain cash payments by fraud.
In personal meetings, persons claim that they are representatives from COBUS or that they work for a local COBUS subsidiary. During the meeting, they ask for urgent financial help (hard cash) due to a private situation (e.g. lost wallet) and promise to pay it back.
General rules:
1) COBUS employees never ask for hard cash or cheques, neither in a private nor business situations.
2) COBUS bank accounts are installed in Germany only. COBUS would never ask you to transfer money to a bank account in a different country.
3) COBUS representatives are never authorized to collect payments on behalf of COBUS.
4) COBUS does not change bank account information in an ongoing process.
If you were faced with any deviation from above rules, please report immediately to: compliance@cobus-industries.de.
Please understand that COBUS cannot be hold responsible for fraudulent activities by third parties.
November 2019
COBUS at Beijing Daxing Airport
We are proud to share with you some first photos of COBUS airbuses which our esteemed customer China Southern ordered for the brand-new gigantic airport Beijing Daxing. Once the whole fleet will have arrived, there will be 8 COBUS 3000 and 2 COBUS 2700S VIP in operation there!
Warning – Fake COBUS Employee in India
To whom it may concern
We have received several requests from India whether a person known as Mr Saurabh Shastry is working for COBUS Industries GmbH. We clearly state that neither do we know this person nor does he work for us or our associates! Our sole legal representative for India is Messrs. SHAKAT GROUP, Mr Rahul Nanda, e-mail: rahul@shakatgroup.com.
October 2019
Interairport 2019
A very successfull Interairport ended last Friday. We were glad to see that our three demo buses (a brand new e.COBUS 2700S, a COBUS 3000 XL and a COBUS 2700 VIP) attracted much interest and were warmly welcomed into the COBUS family. We want to thank all our customers and business partners for the interesting and constructive talks. We look forward to welcoming you all in 2021 once again! Your COBUS team.
Interairport, Munich, Oct. 8-11, 2019
The countdown is on…only 7 weeks to go! Come and visit us at our stand no. C70 – outside area! The COBUS team as well as three interesting COBUS models will be pleased to welcome you!
June 2019
2 COBUS 2700S at Philadelphia International Airport
A former employee of ours sent us this snapshot of two COBUS 2700S being in operation for American Airlines at Philadelphia International Airport, Pennsylvania, USA. We are pleased to know that enjoying to ride on a COBUS does not end with working for COBUS!
June 2019
4,000th COBUS left our production facilities
We are more than proud to announce that our 4,000th COBUS left our production facilities in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal heading to its operation grounds with Emirates in Dubai. This bus is one of 88 extra large COBUS 3000 XL units which were ordered by our esteemed customer Emirates last year.
May 2019
6 COBUS 3000 in Skiing Paradise
These 6 COBUS 3000 do work where others go on vacation: the skiing resort Copper Mountain! Lucky you!
May 2019
Two e.COBUS 3000 operating at Beijing International Airport
One of two e.COBUS 3000, which were successfully approved by the Civil Aviation Authority of China, are now in operation at Beijing International Airport with our esteemed customer Air China.
May 2019
This nice COBUS 3000 greeted all our customers and friends during the latest Airport Show in Dubai. We enjoyed each and every visit that was paid to us. Thank you and see you in Dubai next year!
April 2019
We may post this wonderful and atmospheric photo showing four COBUS 3000 in front of an EMIRATES aircraft with the authorization of Emirates Airline. Thank you very much!
March 2019
One of two brand new COBUS 3000 First Class entering a RoRo ferry at Bremerhaven harbour two weeks ago, prepared to leave for their new place of operation with our esteemed customer KUWAIT AIRWAYS. We wish you a safe crossing!
February 2019
Los Cabos International Airport, Mexico
Proud bus drivers returning from their COBUS 3000 shift at the end of the day at Los Cabos International Airport, Mexico. We hope you will continue having such a good time with our COBUS airport buses!
Diesel is outdated
Each of the 16 passenger buses operated by Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH is run 100% electrically.
2013 the first electric bus operated on the apron. In the years ahead the airport gradually converted their fleet into electric drive. The airport aimed at ferrying its passengers between terminal and aircraft in an eco-friendly way – initiated by the sustainability project “scale-up!” supported by the Federal Ministry for Envrionment Protection and Nuclear Safety.
Our Sales Manager Martin Merstrand
visited our esteemed customer Newcastle Airport lately.
Thus, he was able to take this nice snapshot of two generations of COBUS 3000 airport buses – generation 2 and 3. We are glad to see that our generation-2-bus is still doing its job greatly!
Who says a COBUS
does only fit onto airport aprons?
Seems you have not yet risked a look at this nice snapshot. It was taken of our e.COBUS being on its way back home from the International Airport Expo in Las Vegas to Vancouver, Canada.
An e.COBUS 3000
has started its 2,000 km long trip all the way from Vancouver down to Las Vegas.
From Oct. 2-4, 2018 it will be displayed at our stand no. 416 on the occasion of the IAEMA. You are gladly invited to visit us and our e.COBUS 3000! Our special thanks go to Vancouver Airport Authority for their readiness to make this bus available to us! We will bring it back to you safely – promised!
The GSE & Ramp OPS
is still open today!
Our Peter Heuberger and TREPEL’s Philippe de Soyres are waiting to welcome you anytime at our stand no. 31! Come and have a word with us!
The inter airport china
opens today
– and our two gentlemen, Thomas Baillet and Geoffrey Liang, are ready to welcome you at our COBUS stand # 510, German Pavilion. We are looking forward to having interesting talks with you – just come along!
Our COBUS 3000
has safely arrived at Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula International Airport in Livingstone, Zambia.
Our technician, Maximilian Monzel, who was going to perform a technical training on the bus, was warmly welcomed by two staff members there. Passengers of Mahogany Air were the first to enjoy a ride on this brand-new COBUS.
COBUS Industries is proud
to announce the arrival of the very first COBUS 2700 at Paris Orly Airport this week!
We would like to thank our customer, Airport Shuttle One, for the trust given in our COBUS and wish them an all time successful and smooth operation with it on the ramp!
Airport Show, Dubai
– and COBUS Industries takes part in it!
Our MD, Patricia Vasconcelos, and our Senior Sales Manager, Peter Heuberger, are both looking forward to meeting you at our Stand no. 5470! Come and visit us – anytime!
We are pleased
to share the photo of this pink COBUS 3000 with you.
It will soon be shipped to our esteemed customer Miami International Airport who wants to contribute with it to the worldwide campaign for more BREAST CANCER AWARENESS – what a great thing! As soon as we have photos of this COBUS being completely labelled, we will share these with you also. Thank you, Miami International Airport, for setting such a wonderful statement and making our COBUS airport bus being part of it!
Vancouver International Airport (YVR)
responds to a steady increase of PAX.
One of the first steps taken is operating more and more fully electric COBUS airport buses. Presently, one e.COBUS is already in operation with 7 more to follow within the first half of this year. For more information please follow the link to an article in the Vancouver Sun dated Jan. 23, 2018.
The first two COBUS 3000
were delivered to Nepal Airlines.
Thus, our busses are now also represented in the Himalayan state of Nepal. COBUS Industries is proud of the new location (Kathmandu Airport) and wishes always a safe journey!
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This nice snapshot was taken by Simone Bohn on her arrival at Grantley Adams Intl. Airport, Christ Church, Barbados. Thanks for sharing this photo with us and enjoy some splendid days in paradise!
Stephanie Sulek, Lufthansa cabin crew, just rode on a COBUS 3000 operated by our esteemed customer GROUNDFORCE at Madrid-Barajas Airport. We hope that not only the successful flight but also the comfortable ride on our COBUS made her smile so warmly...
This look into a COBUS cockpit was taken by family Bappert on their arrival at Grantley Adams International Airport on this great Caribbean island. We wish you a great stay and thank you for having COBUS on your mind!
Here a little COBUS fan is posing in front of one of more than 100 COBUS airport buses operating at Fiumicino-Rome Airport. Thank you very much for sending us this nice snapshot!
Our former Technical Director, Mr Joachim Beckhaus, was welcomed by a veritable flood of COBUS buses at Bilbao Airport, Spain. Have a nice stay there, Mr Beckhaus!
Our Managing Director, Patricia Vasconcelos, took this nice snapshot while arriving at Zurich International Airport. Our COBUS 3000 is very well dressed in red...
A COBUS 2700S was discovered at Bangkok International Airport by a fan of Thailand, while waiting for its next job to do. We hope you will soon become a COBUS fan also.
Annett Rudolph, a former colleague of ours, sent us this nice photo of a COBUS 3000 of the first generation, still operating at Dresden Airport. Thanks, Annett, for this nice snapshot!
Our former colleague, Thomas Kramer, was welcomed by a COBUS 3000 on his arrival in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We hope it felt like being home again, Thomas!
February 2019 – Our Sales Manager, Peter Heuberger, just returned from his business trip to Keflavik Airport having made this nice snapshot from a COBUS 3000 operating there!
January 2019 - Peter Kühn, lawyer from Wiesbaden, was welcomed by a COBUS 3000 on his arrival at Abu Dhabi International Airport. We wish you a pleasant stay there!
September 2018 – Three COBUS 3000 diligently do their job at Malta International Airport, thereby taking passengers to the aircraft or to the terminal. Keep up your good job!
August 2018 – A COBUS 3000 is doing its night shift at Saint Petersburg International Airport in Russia. Have fun!
June 2018 – A COBUS fan recently visited the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Mont Saint-Michel in the Normandy, France, and met a COBUS of the other kind: our COBUS DES (a COBUS with double end steering).
March 2018 – Greetings from Lisboa Airport where a COBUS 3000 from GroundForce is servicing a TAP flight. We wish all passengers a comfortable ride in our COBUS!
January 2018 – Los Cabos Intl. Airport in Mexico seems to be a very nice place to operate for our COBUS 3000. Have fun and don’t get sunburnt!
November 2017 – Passenger transportation from a romantic point of view…at sunset a 20 year old COBUS 3000 is doing its job at Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport.
November 2017 – A brand new COBUS 3000 just having serviced an IBERIA aircraft on its way back to the terminal. We thank avionrevue for the photo!
November 2017 – Two COBUS 3000 waiting for their passengers to get on board at Seattle Tacoma International Airport.
November 2017 – A COBUS 3000 as advertising banner for the city of Montreal – what a great view! Montreal Airport, thank you for providing us with this nice picture!
September 2017 – We owe this nice photo to our esteemed customer AVIANCE, Ghana, who allowed us to post it – thank you very much! The picture shows a COBUS 3000 servicing an Emirates flight.
August 2017 – This new COBUS 3000 is perfectly dressed for the next Formula 1 race. This bus can be spotted at Helsinki International Airport.
August 2017 – One of four COBUS 3000 operating at Montréal International Airport.
July 2017 – A photo taken from the first day of operation of the eCobus in Vancouver, Canada.
July 2017 – These days a predecessor model of our COBUS 300 was spotted at Madeira Airport. We would like to thank Mr Elbel, our former Managing Director, very much for this historic picture!
July 2017 – Our Head of Sales, Andreas Funk, was perfectly welcomed by a COBUS 3000 Business Class from Emirates Airline at Dubai Intl. Airport. Thanks a lot for this great service!
June 2017 – On their arrival at Larnaca airport in Cyprus, family Noack was picked up by a COBUS 3000. Have a great holiday!
June 2017 – A COBUS 3000 brought Bernardo Costa to his aircraft at Lisbon Airport. We wish you a good flight!
June 2017 – Axel von Zündt was being greeted by a brand new COBUS 3000 from Ethiopian Airlines at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa! Have a good trip!
May 2017 – Our Managing Director, Mrs Patricia Vasconcelos, was being welcomed at Rhodos Airport by a COBUS 3000. Nice thing to arrive at night at the destination airport and to get greeted by a bit of home!
May 2017 – Martin Merstrand is being escorted to the terminal by a COBUS 3000 at Seattle Tacoma International Airport.
May 2017 – At Antalya Airport a COBUS 3000 from TGS takes our colleague, Udo Scheffler, and his family back to their aircraft. Our COBUS accompanies you almost everywhere in the world!
April 2017 – Mr. Magalhaes is being welcomed by a COBUS 2700S at Frankfurt Airport. Have a nice stay!
April 2017 – A COBUS 3000 welcomes our Managing Director, Patricia Vasconcelos, upon her arrival in Mexico City…and surely wishes her a successful time!
April 2017 – A COBUS 3000 is ready to take Susanne Funk and Kai Kappel to their plane! Have a good flight back from Tenerife!
March 2017 – A COBUS fan was welcomed by five COBUS 3000 at JFK New York.
March 2017 – Three COBUS from Thai Airways at Bangkok International Airport waving Andreas Funk good-bye!
March 2017 – A COBUS 3000 welcomes Susanne Funk and Kai Kappel in Palermo
March 2017 – Udo Scheffler and his family were greeted in Rhodes by a 20 year-old COBUS 300.
February 2017 – Two COBUS say farewell to Elvira and Klaus Pfeiffer in Bangkok.
February 2017 – A COBUS 3000 greets Rupika and Martin Lamprecht on their arrival in Abu Dhabi
January 2017 – COBUS 300 and 3000 greet Andreas Funk upon his arrival at Kuwait International Airport.
December 2016 – A COBUS 300 welcomes Joachim Miranda at Vilnius Airport in Lithuania.
December 2016 – A COBUS 3000 greets Sophie Boese prior to her departure from Abu Dhabi International Airport.
September 2016 – Four COBUS wish Mr Strelkov at Sheremetyevo Airport, Moscow, a pleasant flight.
August 2016 – Two COBUS welcome Mrs Funk and Mr Kappel at Thessaloniki Airport in Greece!
July 2016 – A COBUS 3000 greets Mateo Salamanca on his arrival in Madrid Barajas!
July 2016 – A first generation COBUS 300, still well in operation after more than 30 years, greets Andreas Funk and Patricia Vasconcelos upon their arrival in Beijing.
May 2016 – COBUSses meet Birgit Klug on her arrival in Cyprus.
April 2016 – Susanne Funk and Kai Kappel are being welcomed by a COBUS at Bari Airport.
March 2016 – COBUSes greet Carsten Schimkat on his arrival at Washington Airport.
January 2016 – COBUSes meet friends at Keflavik International Airport.