Organizational elements: UPLIFT Transport, UPLIFT Rescue, Orchestar Logistics and Coordination, UPLIFT Engineering.
Players: Red Cross, World Food Program, Oxfam, Medecins Sans Frontieres, ECHO Flight
Technical elements: Airbus L450 XLR Dirigible, Boeing JHL-900 Helistat
August 15th 2025
In 2012, UPLIFT began as a UN pilot program to test a radical idea: a not for profit transportation service, mandated to serve the developing world, and humanitarian relief organizations. Beginning by servicing ECHO-Flight, the European Union’s humanitarian air service in the Horn of Africa/Eastern and Zaire (formerly the Democratic Republic of Congo). From bases in Accra, Ghana and Nairobi, Kenya, UPLIFT offered low cost air transport capacity to aid agencies operating relief and development programs in Somalia, north-eastern Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo(now Zaire). Personnel and cargo were transported aboard 5 light dirigibles and 2 heavy lift helistats.
The Thousand Year Stare 
Well, perhaps not that radical… UNHAS has been active for some years, doing exactly what you propose. The only change would be in the tools: airships instead of planes and helicopters.