Lufthansa Cargo is increasing its operations at the southern German hub and must be working freighters from the hub for the first time from 6 July 2024.
An A321 freighter will connect Munich with Istanbul Airport twice a week, complementing the existing belly network from Munich. The new freighter connection is planned every Saturday and Sunday with flight numbers LH8350 / LH8351 and LH8346 / LH8347. Lufthansa Cargo potentialities can e book their shipments on the brand new route straight away.
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“We are having a await offering our potentialities this new freighter connection, which makes our world network well-known extra fine. For our southern German potentialities namely, Munich Airport supplies ideal stipulations for the rapidly and decent transportation of air freight, which in the extinguish also enables world industry from but any other crucial European airport. With the originate of our cargo operations out of Munich, we’re laying the root for aligning our network well-known extra carefully with the wants of our potentialities in the long crawl and continuing to lend a hand a watch on it flexibly,” explains Ashwin Bhat, CEO of Lufthansa Cargo.
Jost Lammers, CEO of Flughafen München GmbH: “The originate of traditional cargo flights to Istanbul by Lufthansa Cargo is terribly lawful recordsdata for the Bavarian export exchange and for Munich Airport. Above-common whisper rates in the contemporary three hundred and sixty five days have already shown that Munich Airport can be changing into an increasing number of crucial as a hub airport for cargo.
The beauty of Munich Airport as a cargo predicament will now receive a further boost thru Lufthansa Cargo’s dedication.” Lufthansa Cargo operates its hub in Munich on a total blueprint of 38,000 m². Amongst other things, the snort of the art CEIV-certified Pharma Hub MUC, all over which temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products will even be kept and handled under optimal stipulations, is built-in into the premises. This implies that the carrier would maybe well also furthermore transport honest about all product and goods teams through Munich. Till now, these have mainly been transported from the Bavarian capital to locations all over the arena during the belly capacities of Lufthansa, Brussels Airlines, Glimpse Airlines, Austrian Airlines and SunExpress passenger aircraft. The hub can be connected to a dense RFS network, which enables soft transportation by aspect road.
Lufthansa Cargo AG With income of 3.0 billion euros and a transport performance of 7.5 billion freight ton kilometers in 2023, Lufthansa Cargo is one amongst the arena’s main companies in the transport of airfreight. The firm for the time being employs around 4,150 of us worldwide. Lufthansa Cargo’s focus is on the airport-toairport industry. The route network covers around 300 locations in larger than 100 worldwide locations, using each freighter aircraft and cargo skill from passenger aircraft operated by Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Glimpse Airlines and SunExpress, besides to vans.
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The majority of the cargo industry is handled through Frankfurt Airport. Lufthansa Cargo is pursuing the goal of fixing into the arena’s most environmentally friendly cargo airline. To construct that, the firm relies on snort of the art applied sciences and relentless investments in the blueprint of sustainability. In 2023, crucial milestones had been reached, such because the investment in the continuous expansion of the B777F mercurial, the expansion of short- and medium-haul networks with A321 freighters, and the continuation of the Sustainable Aviation Gas program. In 2024, Lufthansa Cargo plans to successively equip its B777F mercurial with Sharkskin expertise, put in force further digital services and make a contribution to reducing CO2 emissions thru sustainable logistics alternate suggestions. Lufthansa Cargo is an entirely owned subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa AG and the specialist for the logistics industry of the Lufthansa Community.
