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Lufthansa Cargo includes Mexico City in freighter timetable

Oct 25, 2007 Logistics

Lufthansa Cargo will in future be operating freighter services to Mexico City. The new route comes on stream in January 2008 in the winter flight schedules. At the start of winter services on 28 October, the cargo carrier in the Lufthansa Group is also increasing frequencies to New York, Chicago and the South Korean capital Seoul. It is additionally laying on new cargo capacities for its customers to Orlando in the belly hold of Lufthansa passenger aircraft.
Lufthansa Cargo will be serving the Mexican capital, pending the granting of traffic rights, twice weekly with MD-11 freighters. Freighter stopovers in Dallas, Texas, will at the same time raise services there to four traffic days weekly.
Customers of Lufthansa Cargo will also in future have access to new freight capacities on Lufthansa passenger aircraft following the inclusion of Orlando in the Lufthansa passenger traffic route network. This new destination in Florida will be served five days a week with the Airbus A330.
In the winter timetable 2007, Lufthansa Cargo is discontinuing its freighter flights to and from Cologne. These flights, totalling 21 weekly services, will be based at Leipzig/Halle Airport from 28 October 2007. They have been transferred there in view of the opening of the DHL Express European hub Leipzig. In April 2009, DHL and Lufthansa Cargo will, moreover, be commencing operations in Leipzig with their new joint cargo carrier.
The winter timetable is valid from 28 October 2007 until 29 March 2008.

Source:Transportweekly

 
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