All Lufthansa Cargo articles – Page 15
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Lufthansa Cargo wants to remain in airfreight's Champions League
Lufthansa Cargo wants to remain in airfreight’s “Champions League”, using a first team line-up of Productivity, Products, Partnership, Digitisation, ANA and Cathay Pacific, with Swiss and United on the bench.The German carrier’s logistics division made a combined €50m loss in 2016, as its cargo airline business pushed ahead with a ...
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Lufthansa Cargo adds protective film as standard on cool services
Lufthansa Cargo has announced that all cargo transported in the passive refrigeration sector will now be protected against temperature changes through the use of a protective film.The German airline said the innovative reflective film, which was produced exclusively for the carrier, provides sensitive shipments with optimum protection against the unavoidable ...
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Lufthansa Cargo to go nine times a week to Shanghai
Increased frequencies to Shanghai and Guangzhou are among the recent timetable changes announced by Lufthansa Cargo.The Shanghai service goes up from seven to nine times a week from September and the route will exclusively be operated by Boeing 777F cargo aircraft with capacity of around 103 tonnes. Some services were ...
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NewsLufthansa's cargo segment leads the way as it gets back in the black
Lufthansa’s cargo and logistics business returned to the black at an operating profit level in the first quarter as it led the company to its best performance for the period since 2008.The airline group’s logistics division, which includes Cargo, time:matters and other cargo related shareholdings, saw revenues increase by 18.5% ...
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Lufthansa Cargo and United finally firm up transatlantic partnership
Lufthansa Cargo and United Airlines have come to an agreement on their transatlantic partnership first announced in 2015.The two carriers today announced that they had signed a deal on a new partnership covering services between the US and Europe.They said the partnership would offer customers a comprehensive combined network, co-ordinated ...
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Cathay extends Lufthansa cooperation
Cathay Pacific has signed a wide-ranging codeshare agreement with the Lufthansa Group. It covers flights operated by Lufthansa, Swiss and Austrian Airlines to destinations in continental Europe and for four of the Asian airline’s destinations in the Southwest Pacific.Under the agreement, Cathay Pacific will offer 14 new destinations in Germany, ...
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Cargo waiting in the wings as Lufthansa and Etihad partnership focuses on catering and MRO
Lufthansa and UAE national carrier Etihad have signed a non-equity partnership with an initial focus on in-flight catering and aircraft maintenance, although cargo is not on the menu at this stage.Etihad Aviation Group president and chief executive officer James Hogan, and Carsten Spohr, Lufthansa Group chairman and chief executive, signed ...
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Cathay moves into Lufthansa's Frankfurt cargo terminal
Cathay Pacific Cargo is relocating its local cargo handling activities in Frankfurt to the Lufthansa Cargo terminal as part of the co-operation agreement between two airlines that both have sizeable passenger and pure freighter fleets.The Frankfurt move follows a reciprocal arrangement which saw Lufthansa Cargo move its Hong Kong freight ...
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Lufthansa Cargo to divide regions as part of management cull
Lufthansa Cargo has revealed more details on how it will divide up its regions in order to offload a layer of management in line with its cost cutting programme.The German airfreight giant will now operate with eight regions instead of the previous four to allow it to remove a management ...
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NewsLufthansa's cargo business is in the red again
Lufthansa’s cargo and logistics division has slipped to its sixth quarterly operating loss in a row as market overcapacity and weak demand continued to blight financial performance.The German airline group’s logistics division, which includes Lufthansa Cargo, time:matters and other cargo related businesses, recorded a third quarter earnings before interest and ...
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Lufthansa moves in with Cathay in Hong Kong
Lufthansa Cargo has moved its Hong Kong freight handling operation to Cathay Pacific’s terminal as part of its joint business agreement with the Far Eastern carrier.The move would give customers of both carriers a single location for export drop-off and import delivery arrangements, it said.Both carriers are now working closely ...
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NewsLufthansa's cargo business remains in the red
Lufthansa’s cargo division recorded its fifth quarterly operating loss in a row as competition on global airfreight markets remained “intense”.The German airline group’s logistics business, which includes Lufthansa Cargo, ULD specialist Jettainer and its other investments, recorded a 16.4% year-on-year decline in second-quarter revenues to €496m.Earnings before interest and tax ...
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Cathay Pacific and Lufthansa Cargo announce Hong Kong-Europe tie-up
Cathay Pacific and Lufthansa Cargo have signed a partnership that will see the two airlines offer a joint network of more than 140 flights per week between Hong Kong and 13 European destinations.The “highly integrated bilateral co-operation” is due to begin early next year and will see the two airlines ...