Lufthansa Cargo with 1.6 million tons of freight in 2015

Frankfurt, 15.01.2016 - With a total volume of 1.6 million tons of flown freight and mail, Lufthansa Cargo maintained its leading position in Europe last year. The total volume decreased slightly. In the previous year, the company transported around two percent more freight.

Lufthansa Cargo increased its capacity by two percent over the past twelve months. However, as sales fell slightly, the load factor also decreased. The load factor for the year as a whole amounted to 66.3% (-3.4 percentage points).

"The past year was not easy for the airfreight industry," emphasizes Lufthansa Cargo CEO Peter Gerber. "The turbulence in the Chinese market and the strong US dollar, which affected many industries, demanded everything from us. In addition, the strikes by the Vereinigung Cockpit pilots' union and the UFO flight attendants' union also made things difficult for us at Lufthansa Cargo."

Nevertheless, Lufthansa Cargo continued to invest in its own product and route network last year and added new destinations in Turkmenistan, Vietnam and Brazil to its flight schedule, among others.

Lufthansa Cargo will continue to operate flexibly and close to the market in 2016, emphasizes Peter Gerber. In order to increase capacity utilization on freighter routes again, the crane subsidiary is taking two MD-11 freighters out of the fleet. The airline is thus offering its customers flights with its five new Boeing 777 freighters and twelve MD-11Fs. This is in addition to the capacities of its subsidiary AeroLogic, which has a total of eight Boeing 777Fs. Lufthansa Cargo customers also have access to the cargo capacities of Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines passenger aircraft - the route network thus covers around 300 destinations in some 100 countries.

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