Lufthansa Cargo is the cargo airline subsidiary of Lufthansa with its own ICAO code, and callsign, unlike most other "cargo divisions" of airline holding companies and their operations across the world. Lufthansa Cargo, headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and though considered a completely separate airline, still carries the (LH) IATA code of Lufthansa. It is an international air freight and logistics company operating worldwide services. Its ma...
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Lufthansa Cargo is the cargo airline subsidiary of Lufthansa with its own ICAO code, and callsign, unlike most other "cargo divisions" of airline holding companies and their operations across the world. Lufthansa Cargo, headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and though considered a completely separate airline, still carries the (LH) IATA code of Lufthansa. It is an international air freight and logistics company operating worldwide services. Its main base is Frankfurt Airport. The operation in Leipzig/Halle Airport, in the eastern part of Germany, is for DHL, the German express carrier. Lufthansa Cargo does not only offer space on its own freighters, but also has access to the freight capacities of more than 300 Lufthansa passenger aircraft.
The decision was made in July 1994 to make the freight division of Lufthansa a limited stock company. It was the first airline in the world to split cargo and passenger operations in this way. These activities were merged into the "old" German Cargo...
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