Lufthansa filling Brussels’ cargo space

The German airline is expanding its coverage across Africa.

   Lufthansa Cargo has started marketing the cargo capacity on Brussels Airlines’ flights to freight forwarders.
   The freight booked in this way will fly on Lufthansa Cargo’s air waybills. The first Brussels Airlines flights to transport the German airline’s freight will begin Sept. 1.
   The deal will expand Lufthansa’s cargo coverage across Africa, including Banjul, Gambia; Conakry, Guinea; Freetown, Sierra Leone; Monrovia, Liberia; Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Accra, Ghana; Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Lomé, Togo; Cotonou, Benin; Douala, Cameroon; Yaounde, Cameroon; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; Entebbe, Uganda; Kigali, Rwanda; and Bujumbura, Burundi.
   “As [an] Africa specialist, we add new destinations to the portfolio of Lufthansa Cargo and from a Brussels Airlines perspective, we can now make even better use of our freight capacity,” said Reinout Puissant, Brussel Airlines’ global platform manager, in a statement.
   Brussels Airlines becomes the fifth passenger airline with cargo capacity marketed by Lufthansa Cargo. The other airlines are Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Eurowings and SunExpress.