Festive Freighter for Santa by Lufthansa Cargo

With the peak season & increasing demand Lufthansa cargo has expanded its freighter capacity. This freighter capacity expansion is based on upcoming festive season of Christmas & will operate weekly on Frankfurt - JFK route from mid November to 03 Jan. As per one Lufthansa spokesperson this step is taken especially in service of Santa Claus . This additional...

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China Post & Lufthansa Cargo inks Joint Freight Operation

China Post & Lufthansa cargo have come up with a strategic agreement of sharing Boeing 777 freighter cargo capacity on Shanghai - Frankfurt route. Lufthansa airlines (LH) will provide block space to China Post on its freighter & passenger aircraft on regular basis. Currently LH is operating 18 wide body aircrafts &10 weekly 777F weekly out of China . Both...

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Get Spot market capacity on digital platform from Lufthansa cargo

The German cargo carrier has made an agreement with cargo.one for making booking online for its td.flash (express service) & td.pro (general service) in order to offer spot market capacity & provide digital facility to forwarders. Lufthansa Cargo chairman Peter Gerber said: "Digitisation allows information to be distributed around the globe in fractions of a second. "This...

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Swiss and Lufthansa to launch new cargo pricing structure

Swiss WorldCargo and Lufthansa Cargo are to launch a two component pricing structure - a net rate plus airfreight surcharge – to reflect the "volatility of external cost factors". A joint letter to customers states: “The new airfreight surcharge will be significantly lower compared to the combined fuel and security surcharges, which will be eliminated...

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Tough June for Europe's air cargo carriers

European airlines continued to struggle with the continent’s weak economic conditions last month with volumes and load factors continuing to lag behind last year’s levels. Combined data from the IAG Group, Lufthansa Group, Air France KLM and Finnair show that demand at the airlines they own declined by 4.6% year on year in June in terms of revenue/cargo tonne km. Meanwhile,...

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ANA and Lufthansa Cargo JV hauls first shipment

The cargo joint venture between All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Lufthansa Cargo has carried its first shipment. Sent by forwarder Schenker-Seino and booked via Lufthansa Cargo, three pieces of general cargo weighing 153kg were transported by ANA on a direct flight from Tokyo to London. The forwarder was able to receive the shipment approximately 16 hours earlier than by choosing the transfer connection via Frankfurt. On the same day, a Lufthansa Cargo freighter flight carried the first shipment...

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Two Decades of Lufthansa Cargo

Lufthansa cargo has spent the last 20 years flying around the world 3.6m times and transporting the equivalent of 9.3m elephant . Lufthansa Cargo is celebrating two decades as an independent business after Deutsche Lufthansa AG pooled its cargo activities into a separate company. Germany's freight flagship carrier states: "Flying cargo has always played a major role at Lufthansa and its predecessors; however, it was not until the founding of a dedicated cargo...

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Lufthansa Cargo strengthens its presence in West Africa

LUFTHANSA CARGO is integrating Lagos, Nigeria, into its network by launching twice-weekly MD-11 freighter flights from September, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor. The new services, which will take off from Frankfurt for the Nigerian city every Monday and Thursday, will also fly on to Johannesburg, South Africa. The return leg will include a stopover in Nairobi, Kenya. “Another two weekly flights from Frankfurt to Johannesburg will also stop in Nairobi on the southbound leg,”...

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