Lufthansa Cargo boosts tonnage and sales in 2010

Lufthansa Cargo returned excellent figures in the 2010 business year. Revenue cargo tonne-kilometres (FTKT) rose to a record 8.9 billion FTKTs. The volume of cargo and mail transported climbed by 18.2 per cent to 1.79 million tonnes.

Karl Ulrich Garnadt, Lufthansa Cargo's new Chairman and CEO said, ?fter the 2009 crisis year, Lufthansa Cargo has come back with outstanding results on the back of an impressive team performance. We are taking that momentum into 2011 in order to make the most of growth opportunities in the international airfreight industry.

Freight and mail tonnage increased appreciably in all traffic regions. The biggest growth came in the Americas, where tonnage soared by 24.9 per cent, followed by the Asia/Pacific with growth of 20.6 per cent. During the year, Lufthansa Cargo raised capacity by 7.6 per cent.

Alongside the airline's reactivated freighters, the increase is attributable especially to new aircraft joining the fleetoperated by the AeroLogic subsidiary and the integration of the cargo capacities of Austrian Airlines. Sales climbed by 19.9 per cent to 8.9 billion revenue cargo tonne-kilometres and were accompanied by a pronounced improvement in capacity utilisation. The cargo load factor rose on the year-earlier level by 7.3 percentage points to 70.9 per cent.