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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 but transported by ANA on flight number NH 277 from Tokyo to London.
Thanks to the direct ANA between the two ...
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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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Lufthansa Cargo has simplified pricing for its Cool/td shipments. The sender is now free to select the number of required rental days. Until now, it was only possible for a customer to hire a refrigerated container for a minimum of four days at a time; in the event of a ...
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All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Lufthansa Cargo have gained antitrust immunity for a Japan-Europe joint venture, claimed as the first of its kind in the cargo field. ANA has received approval for the joint venture from the Japanese Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transportand it has been positively assessed by ...
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Lufthansa Cargo is to operate twice-weekly MD11 freigher flights from Frankfurt to Lagos from 15 September. A total of 170 tonnes of capacity will be available each week on the flights, which will operate on Monday and Thursday. After Lagos, the freighter will fly on to Johannesburg and the return ...
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Lufthansa Cargo flew 65 horses in 22 mobile stalls from Frankfurt to the Iranian capital, Tehran, on a special 777 freighter flight on the night of 28/29 July. The elegant stud and competition horses had checked in at Lufthansa Cargo’s Frankfurt Animal Lounge and then been accommodated in new horse ...
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Lufthansa Cargo says that all its LD3 containers are now the lightweight versions madealmost entirely from plastic. With 500,000 container movements per year, the 14-kilogramme difference over conventional containers amounts to a weight reduces fuel consumption by 2,000 tonnes and CO2 emissions by 7,000 tonnes per year.
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Lufthansa Cargo’s new Boeing 777F made its first call at Shanghai Pudong, becoming the first city in the carriers global route network to be served with daily flights by the aircraft.
Regional director Christian Haug told over 100 representatives of the logistics industry in Shanghai. “The Triple Seven is already setting ...
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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 ...
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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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