Lufthansa will add an extra transpacific freighter service from Ho Chi Minh City via Shanghai to Los Angeles in its summer schedule. The carrier says it is currently the only operator offering main deck capacity between Vietnam to China.
From May, it will also reintroduce Delhi to its freighter network with a weekly connection.
There will be 33 connections per week between Frankfurt and North America, serving eleven destinations in along with four destinations in South America, including an additional frequency to Toronto.
Lufthansa Cargo will shortly add Zurich to its short-haul A321F freighter network which has also served Rome and Algiers once a week since February.
Lufthansa City Airlines has now been added to the belly portfolio, giving further options via Frankfurt and Munich. Long-haul connections from Frankfurt will be expanded including five weekly flights to St. Louis and Cape Town, six to Rio de Janeiro and Raleigh/Durham, and daily flights to Nairobi. Washington will even be served by two connections per day, and Minneapolis three times a week from April.
Munich’s services to São Paulo and Johannesburg will continue with three flights per week while ITA Airways is returning with two daily connections between London Heathrow and Rome. From June, Brussels Airlines will add two flights per week to Kilimanjaro International Airport and increase its connections to Freetown to six per week. Discover Airlines is launching year-round service to the Seychelles and increasing flights to Las Vegas to five per week. Austrian Airlines is also increasing its connections to the US with the resumption of daily flights to Los Angeles and a daily connection to Tokyo-Narita.
