Lufthansa Cargo summer schedules: More frequencies and new destinations

Lufthansa Cargo is increasing its freighter frequencies to Dallas, Sao Paulo and Shanghai in the summer timetable. New destinations in the summer flight schedules are Lahore and a direct connection from Cologne through East Midlands (UK) to Wilmington (USA). Cargo customers will also benefit from changes bearing on airfreight in Lufthansa passenger services. Additional belly capacities will come on stream from Lufthansa’s introduction of passenger flights to Busan (South Korea) and extra frequencies to Caracas, Denver and Shanghai.

In the freighter timetable, Lufthansa Cargo is raising frequencies to Dallas from two to thrice weekly. The additional service is on Wednesdays. Sao Paulo will be served by six flights weekly from Frankfurt, the extra service is on Mondays. Frequencies to Shanghai will be increased from eight to nine weekly, with the addition to the timetable of services on Fridays. Changes are also forthcoming in traffic days to Los Angeles. In the summer flight schedules, Los Angeles will be served twice weekly – on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Lufthansa Cargo is, moreover, operating scheduled flights in summer to and from Lahore in Pakistan. These services will be laid on ex Frankfurt, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, in combination with Bangkok. New in the timetable is a direct connection from Cologne through East Midlands to Wilmington. This service will be operated within the framework of the existing intercontinental joint venture with DHL.

Aside from network changes in Lufthansa Cargo’s freighter services in the summer timetable, the Lufthansa passenger business is also extending its route network. Of interest to Cargo customers are the increased frequencies in passenger flights to Caracas, Denver and Shanghai as well as the new passenger services offered to Busan in combination with Seoul. The aforementioned connections will be flown by the Airbus A340.

The summer timetable is valid from 25 March to 27 October 2007.

Lufthansa Cargo AG
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Dr. Peter Schneckenleitner
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