A weekly return rotation of a B777F freighter connecting Frankfurt via Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) with Los Angeles (LAX) has been added to Lufthansa Cargo’s 2024/2025 winter flight schedule.

This is the cargo carrier’s first direct connection from the Asian market to the US network, offering cargo customers an even faster, high-quality connection between the two continents.

Also included in the winter schedule is increased frequencies to India and China to meet rising e-commerce demand, enabled by the addition of the cargo airline’s 18th B777F freighter.

In addition, the A321F fleet will operate up to 34 weekly flights between Frankfurt and Munich.

Furthermore, in the Asia-Pacific region, the carrier is adding weekly flights to Mumbai and Taipei, and expanding services to Chennai in combination with Hyderabad or Mumbai.

With Shenzhen and Zhengzhou recently being added to the network, Lufthansa Cargo now offers 50 weekly flights to Asia. Additionally, the Frankfurt-Tel Aviv-Cairo route will gain a weekly flight, while the A321F fleet maintains its continental network.

With the newly published timetable, Lufthansa Cargo now offers its customers 89 weekly B777F freighter connections worldwide, seven more than in the summer timetable.

Ashwin Bhat, chief executive of Lufthansa Cargo, said: “Lufthansa Cargo is constantly reviewing all possibilities to offer its customers seamless, high-quality connections and to enable global business even more efficiently and sustainably.

“With a comprehensive review of our existing schedule and network, we have been able to optimise our rotations. In the future, some of our freighters will have fewer stopovers, allowing our customers to benefit from direct connection and transportation of their freight within our global network.”

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