Lufthansa Cargo

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Lufthansa Cargo
IATA
LH		 ICAO
GEC		 Callsign
LUFTHANSA CARGO
Founded 1994
Hubs Frankfurt International Airport
Secondary hubs Leipzig/Halle Airport
Focus cities Munich
Fleet size 19
Destinations 39
Parent company Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Headquarters Frankfurt, Germany
Key people Carsten Spohr (Chairman)
Website: http://www.lhcargo.com/

Lufthansa Cargo is the cargo airline subsidiary of Lufthansa based in Frankfurt, Germany. It is an international air freight and logistics company operating worldwide services. Its main base is Frankfurt International Airport. The operation in Leipzig/Halle, in the eastern part of Germany, is for DHL, the German express carrier. Lufthansa Cargo does not only offer space on its own freighters, but also has access to the freight capacities of more than 300 Lufthansa passenger aircraft. Additionally, all capacity of Condor Airlines, SunExpress and airberlin are at the disposal of Lufthansa Fracht.[citation needed]

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[edit] History

The decision was made in July 1994 to make the freight division of Lufthansa a limited stock company. It was the first airline in the world to split cargo and passenger operations in this way. These activities were merged into the "old" German Cargo Services Ltd. (resp. Lufthansa Cargo Airlines Ltd.), renamed to Lufthansa Cargo AG (LCAG) and entered into in November 1994. For quite some time LCAG was the number one intercontinental cargo carrier but was passed meanwhile by Korean Airlines Cargo and Air France/KLM Cargo.

Although LCAG was famous for its innovation spirit, which is still reflected in several interesting joint ventures and subsidiaries, the company lacks a strategy for further development. The WOW Alliance (consisting of LCAG, Singapore Airlines Cargo, Japan Airlines Cargo and SAS Cargo) never really took off and was quietly put to rest in 2006, when the WOW logo disappaered from the various company stationary.

In 2004, Lufthansa Cargo and DHL Express came together in a 50:50 joint venture to create a new cargo airline. The airline AeroLogic was founded in September 2007 and intends to operate up to 11 Boeing 777Fs by 2012.[1] The airline will be based at DHL's base in Leipzig and as a result Lufthansa Cargo's MD-11s based at Leipzig will be relocated back to Frankfurt.

[edit] Destinations

Lufthansa Cargo operates flights to 39 destinations in 23 countries.[2]

[edit] Africa

[edit] Central Asia & Russia

[edit] Europe

[edit] Far East

[edit] India

[edit] Middle East & Pakistan

[edit] Latin America

[edit] USA

[edit] Fleet

Lufthansa Cargo MD-11F
Lufthansa Cargo MD-11F

The Lufthansa Cargo fleet includes the following aircraft (at March 2007) [3] :

Registrations: D-ALCA / D-ALCB / D-ALCC / D-ALCD / D-ALCE / D-ALCF / D-ALCG / D-ALCH / D-ALCI / D-ALCJ / D-ALCK / D-ALCL / D-ALCM / D-ALCN / D-ALCO / D-ALCP / D-ALCQ / D-ALCR / D-ALCS


[edit] Previously operated

Registrations: D-ABZA / D-ABZB / D-ABZC / D-ABZF / D-ABZI / D-ABYO / D-ABYU

[edit] References

  1. ^ AeroLogic outlines launch and expansion plans Flight Global, 28 January 2008
  2. ^ Lufthansa Cargo AG flight schedule 9mb file in Excel format - only those destinations with MD-11 service are Lufthansa Cargo destinations
  3. ^ "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-03, p. 108. 

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