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Lufthansa Cargo summer season boasts more flights on bigger planes

LUFTHANSA Cargo will start its summer season at the end of March by bringing in a bigger Boeing 777F aircraft for freighter flights from Frankfurt to Tokyo and Seoul (six times a week) and Beijing (four times a week).

Lufthansa Cargo will link Frankfurt and Hong Kong daily in addition to the Saturday connection with an AeroLogic Boeing 777F, Lufthansa's cargo arm will also fly an MD-11F to the south coast of China six times a week, instead of four.

The frequency to Ho Chi Minh City will double from one to two weekly services.

Many new destinations will also be available via the belly fleet. For example, Lufthansa has been flying an Airbus A340 to Panama City five times a week since 2 March and will serve San Jose, California from July.

With immediate effect, the cargo capacities of the Eurowings long-haul fleet will only be available for booking via Lufthansa Cargo.

An Airbus A330 already serves Varadero, Punta Cana and Puerto Plata from Cologne. Phuket and Bangkok will be added from the end of March, along with Cancun and Mauritius from May, Boston from June and Miami from September.

Frequencies to Shanghai will also increase, with Austrian Airlines serving the Chinese metropolis from Vienna five times a week initially from April and then daily with a Boeing 777 from May.

A weekly freighter service to Moscow is one new addition to the schedule. An MD-11F has already been flying every Monday since March from Frankfurt to Domodedovo Airport, before connecting the Russian capital with Ashgabat and Baku.

Lufthansa's cargo arm will also fly an MD-11F to Doha every Friday. There will now be a direct flight from Frankfurt to Seattle every Friday as well with an AeroLogic Boeing 777F, then to Los Angeles before returning to Frankfurt.

Lufthansa Cargo transported 1.6 million tonnes of freight and mail and sold 8.4 billion revenue ton-kilometres and serves 300 destinations in more than 100 countries with its own fleet of freighters, the belly capacities of passenger aircraft operated by Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines, and an extensive road feeder service network.