Lufthansa’s cargo volume up 4.2% in May
Lufthansa Cargo transported 148,000 tons of freight and mail in May, up 4.2 percent compared to the same month last year.
In May, the German airline’s cargo load factor improved by 2 percentage points to 65.2 percent.
“In particular the Asia/Pacific region reported high growth rates with a 10.8 percent increase in cargo tonnage and a cargo load factor exceeding by 2.2 percentage points 70.7 percent,” Lufthansa Cargo said.
For the year to date, Lufthansa Cargo has moved 704,000 tons of freight and mail, up 0.4 percent over the same five-month period 2005.