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State-owned airlines are distorting industry figures because they do not have to operate on a level playing field, Lufthansa Cargo's outgoing chairman and CEO Karl Ulrich Garnadt told a press conference on 25 March, writes Marcia MacLeod.
Garnadt pointed out that the only airlines which showed a relatively healthy profit during the last financial year were state-owned and that private companies, world-wide, grew very little. For example, in Europe, Cargolux ...
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Lufthansa Cargo’s new Boeing 777F - christened Jambo Kenya or Hello Kenya - landed in Nairobi, Kenya for the first time on 11 March, following a flight from Frankfurt via Johannesburg. On arrival, the freighter was officially christened in the presence of Kenya Airports Authority chairman Professor Mutuma Mugambi, German ...
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Peter Gerber has been named as the new chief executive and chairman of Lufthansa Cargo, while current cargo chief Karl Ulrich Garnadt’s is to head up the carrier’s passenger business.
Gerber has been responsible at board level for human resources, IT and services on the executive board of Lufthansa German Airlines ...
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Lufthansa Cargo has introduced a new tracking service using GSM transponders. The devices have been specifically designed for use on board aircraft and is the first officially certified equipment of its type, which switch off automatically during flight.
Lufthansa Cargo will provide the devices, weighinbg just 50 grams, which shippers can ...
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A week after the maiden comemrcial flight of Lufthansa Cargo's first Boeing 777F, a second new Triple Seven arrived in Frankfurt on 27 November. The new aircraft has been christened Jambo Kenya (Hello Kenya) in recognition of the importance of Africa as one of the most important air freight growth ...
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Lufthansa Cargo operated an aid flight to the Philippines on 22 November free of charge in partnership with the ‘Aktion Deutschland Hilft’ emergency aid alliance. Carrying around 55 tonnes of relief supplies, the MD-11 freighter will bring more than twice the amount of cargo that was transported to the crisis-hit ...
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Lufthansa Cargo says Germany's Federal Aviation Office has officially recognised the electronic consignment security declaration (eCSD). It is an important part of the campaign to create a paperless airfreight supply chain.
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A Lufthansa Airbus A340-600 flew 25 tonnes of emergency aid from Frankfurt to Manilla over the weekend of 9-10 November. Filling the belly space of the passenger aircraft were 5,400 fleece blankets, 3,000 plastic tarpaulins, tents and medical supplies for the area devastated by the super typhoon in the Philippines. ...
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Lufthansa Cargo is adding the Peruvian capital Lima to the schedule of its MD-11 freighter service on Mondays and Fridays from Frankfurt via Dakar (Senegal) and Manaus (Brazil) from 27 October. The return journey to Frankfurt will include stops in Quito, Ecuador and Aguadilla in Puerto Rico.
The German carrier is ...
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Lufthansa Cargo has earmarked Atlanta, Chicago, New York as the first three scheduled destinations for its new 777 freighter aircraft when it goes into service in November 2013. The new plane can fly for 10½ hours with a payload of 103 tons while meeting the latest noise protection standards in ...
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