With the newly revealed timetable, Lufthansa Cargo provides its clients 89 weekly B777F freighter connections worldwide, seven greater than in the summertime timetable. A major growth within the winter timetable is a transpacific flight: a weekly rotation of a B777F freighter connects Frankfurt by way of Ho Chi Minh Metropolis (SGN) with Los Angeles (LAX) after which returns to the house hub in Frankfurt. That is the cargo provider’s first direct connection from the Asian market to the U.S. community, providing cargo clients an excellent sooner, high-quality connection between the 2 continents. With the enlargement of latest routes and direct connections, Lufthansa Cargo is underlining its long-term development plans in a dynamic market atmosphere and underlining its goal of “Enabling International Enterprise”.
“Lufthansa Cargo is continually reviewing all potentialities to supply its clients seamless, high-quality connections and to allow world enterprise much more effectively and sustainably. With a complete evaluate of our present schedule and community, now we have been in a position to optimize our rotations. Sooner or later, a few of our freighters may have fewer stopovers, permitting our clients to profit from direct connection and transportation of their freight inside our world community,” stated Ashwin Bhat, CEO of Lufthansa Cargo.
For the winter schedule, the cargo provider is rising its frequencies to locations in India and China to accommodate the continued development in e-commerce shipments and different items requiring Lufthansa Cargo’s famend high quality companies and options. The rise in frequencies is primarily as a result of entry into service of the 18th B777F freighter within the fleet, which was transferred from the Boeing plant in Seattle to Frankfurt in mid-August. As well as, the A321F fleet will function as much as 34 weekly medium-haul and short-haul flights connecting our two Hubs Frankfurt and Munich.
Within the Asia-Pacific area, Lufthansa Cargo is rising its weekly freighter capability to Mumbai (BOM) and Taipei (TPE) by one flight per week. Chennai (MAA) will likely be served twice weekly together with Hyderabad (HYD) or Mumbai (BOM). With the current addition of Shenzhen (SZX) and Zhengzhou (CGO) to its route community, the cargo provider can now provide its clients a complete of fifty weekly frequencies to Asia.
As well as, the freighter rotation from Frankfurt by way of Tel Aviv (TLV) to Cairo (CAI) will likely be elevated by one weekly flight with a B777F. The continental community will stay largely unchanged with the A321F fleet, which since July has additionally been providing cargo clients, significantly in southern Germany, a direct connection from Munich to Istanbul (IST) and again.
The Winter schedule 2024/2025 could be booked from October 6 and takes impact on October 27. Along with the freighter service, Lufthansa Cargo additionally markets the extra cargo capability of as much as 7,500 flights every week to over 350 locations served by Lufthansa, Austrian Airways, Brussels Airways, Uncover Airways and SunExpress – and since this summer season additionally on quite a few new connections to North America, resembling from Frankfurt to Raleigh-Durham (RDU) or Minneapolis (MSP).