New "preighter" destination Shenzhen
Lufthansa Cargo is now offering up to fourteen additional cargo flights a week from Shenzhen to Frankfurt. The first aircraft, an A330-300 from Lufthansa, took off from the Pearl River Delta city last Monday, 18 May 2020. Around 3 million respiratory masks and other medical protective equipment were on board, flown on behalf of the logistics company Fiege.
Lufthansa Group member Swiss has also added Shenzhen to its network of cargo-only passenger aircraft, conducting ten of such B777-300ER flights from 22 May onwards.
As of 15 May, its airfreight division Swiss Worldcargo offers frequent flights to Hong Kong (twice weekly), New York JFK (four times weekly) Johannesburg (weekly, performed initially by Edelweiss as cargo-only flight and from June by Swiss) and Mumbai (thrice weekly). (ah)