Lufthansa Cargo

Lufthansa Group has revealed that it has further expanded its activities in Italy with new freighter flights from Milan to New York and Chicago in the US, a twice-weekly service from Milan-Malpensa airport.

In addition to the new service, Lufthansa offers belly capacities on passenger aircraft and cargo capacities on Lufthansa Italia flights within Europe, with four weekly flights from Brescia to Shenzhen and Shanghai in China also available by Chinese airfreight subsidiary Jade Cargo International.

'Italy is Europe's major airfreight market after Germany,' said group chairman Carsten Spohr. 'The new freighter service will allow Lufthansa cargo to further entrench its leading position in Italy and offer direct flights on cargo aircraft from Italy to the US. The Lufthansa Cargo Group with Jade Cargo International is already connecting the Italian market with direct flights to industrial centres in Asia.'

Freighter flights on the new services started on 18 February 2009.