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A Lufthansa Cargo MD-11F freighter is now flying around the world with the footprints of 24 children on its fuselage. The colourful design is in aid of the Cargo Human Care organisation, for which D-ALCH is a flying ambassador. The association runs an orphanage for around 120 children nearby the Kenyan capital and also supports a medical centre. German doctors are regularly flown on board the Lufthansa Cargo freighters to ...
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Lufthansa’s urgent logistics arm time:matters has added an export station at Istanbul to its Sameday Air network, the 105th on the system. Some 13 European stations can be served by a total of 230 direct flights a week ex Istanbul and further connections are available via Frankfurt and Munich. Shipments ...
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Lufthansa Cargo is to make permanent its weekly freighter service to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, started on a trial basis in summer. It flies from Frankfurt on Thursdays operated by a Boeing 777F, via Mumbai and terminating in Hong Kong.
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Lufthansa Cargo and Swiss WorldCargo’s and Lufthansa Cargo are to offer a new pricing concept, but have stopped short of rolling up fuel and other surcharges into the basic freight rate as a handful of other carriers have done in the last few months. The carriers' new structure will consist ...
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Lufthansa Cargo is to extend its joint venture with Japan's ANA Cargo to the eastbound leg from 3 August. The two carriers launched a joint venture, initially between Japan and Europe, in December 2014. It will give customers in Europe access to the two carriers' shared network, including over 90 ...
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Demand for freighters is still strong, despite the decision by British Airways to axe its all-cargo planes and Air France KLM's drastic slimming down of its operation, Lufthansa Cargo chief executive Peter Gerber (pictured) told a press conference on 19 March.
Describing BA's arguments that all-cargo aircraft were not now necessary ...
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Lufthansa Cargo has taken delivery of its fifth and final Boeing 777F freighter aircraft. D-ALFE landed in Frankfurt for the first time on 12 February on its delivery flight from Everett near Seattle.
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A 2.7% decline in freight was not a bad performance considering the tough competition in a difficult market, said Lufthansa Cargo in revealing its results for 2014. Total cargo was 1.669m tonnes as against 1.715mt in 2013. The German carrier also virtually maintained its load factor at 69.7% as against ...
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Lufthansa Cargo has formally launched its joint venture with Japan's largest airline, All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan’s largest airline. The two airlines started joint sales of shipments on flights from Japan to Europe on 1 December, with the first shipment despatched by Schenker-Seino on 2 December, booked via Lufthansa Cargo ...
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Lufthansa Cargo says it plans to operate all of its flights despite the walkout by the pilots’ union, Vereinigung Cockpit in a long-running dispute over age of retirement . The strike is set to ground all cargo flights scheduled to depart from Frankfurt on Wednesday and Thursday but two flights ...
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