Lufthansa Cargo is the freight subsidiary of the German flag carrier Lufthansa. The airline only operates the Boeing 777F, having retired its last MD-11 in 2021. The airline has an outstanding ...

Lufthansa Cargo says that the higher capacity and range of the new aircraft would allow it to achieve the same performance with fewer aircraft movements. With a maximum capacity of 103t, the 777F ...

The air cargo business is not flourishing ... although it doesn’t have the payload range.” Lufthansa said the 777F with a load of 103 tons can fly 5,592 miles in ten and a half hours.

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From the peak, Lufthansa Cargo’s MD-11F fleet declined to 16 aircraft during the global financial crisis in 2009, but then rose to 18. The airline’s first 777F entered service in 2013.

A Lufthansa Cargo AG Boeing-777F plane sits on a tarmac after landing at the Yemelianovo airport in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, March 31, 2014. [Photo/Agencies] A new destination for ...

Lufthansa Cargo is making the case at group level for adding more single-aisle and wide-body planes, including additional Boeing Co. 777F freighters to ply long-haul routes, unit chief Dorothea ...

Lufthansa Cargo is expecting to take delivery of the first of five Boeing 777Fs in mid- to late October, followed by a second delivery in November, a spokesperson of Lufthansa Cargo confirmed to ATW.

Lufthansa said it will also buy a total of 10 777 family cargo planes, comprising three 777F models and seven next-generation 777-8F. One of the 777Fs, which has been flying for another airline ...

According to Lufthansa Cargo, the average freight capacity resulting from the use of passenger aircraft, including loading their cabin space with cargo, is around 30 tons. This compares with 103 tons ...

Lufthansa Cargo also said the ANA partnership ... a decision on whether to exercise the first of five options for new 777F freighters until September. "Given the situation in the group with ...