Lufthansa Cargo strengthens connectivity with new winter schedule

Lufthansa Cargo has released its winter 2025/2026 schedule, maintaining a strong focus on stable global connections to provide freight customers with reliable transport solutions.

This is achieved not only with flexible transport solutions via its home hub in Frankfurt, but also with a wide range of routing options via its hubs in Munich, Vienna, Brussels, and, since this summer, Rome-Fiumicino (FCO). Starting with the winter flight schedule, Lufthansa Cargo customers will benefit from an expanded range of services and greater flexibility, according to an official release from Lufthansa Cargo.

Building on its expanded partnership with ITA Airways, Lufthansa Cargo will, from the end of October, market nearly all of ITA’s belly capacities on both continental and intercontinental routes under its own AWB number, including flights from Rome. Routes to and from the United States and Canada remain excluded pending regulatory approval. The cooperation, which began in June, is now almost fully implemented, giving Lufthansa Cargo customers access to a new high-performance hub in southern Europe and, in perspective, nearly 20 percent additional capacity.

“Our winter flight schedule clearly demonstrates that ‘Enabling Global Business’ is not just our purpose, but something we embody every day at Lufthansa Cargo. By marketing additional belly capacities from ITA Airways and strengthening our belly network, as well as offering an even broader freighter flight schedule, we can provide our customers with more connections than before. Nevertheless, we continue to review our network on an ongoing basis, remaining in close dialogue with our customers so that we can continue to provide flexible and reliable transport solutions and respond to changing trade flows," says Ashwin Bhat, CEO of Lufthansa Cargo.

This further strengthens Lufthansa Cargo's offering, making it the broadest network to, from, and within Europe, as well as to destinations worldwide. The cargo airline is thus setting new standards in connectivity for its customers, the release added.

Further frequency increases and new destinations in Lufthansa Group's winter flight schedule will strengthen the global range of belly capacities even further. This winter, Austrian Airlines will expand its service from Vienna (VIE) to Bangkok (BKK), offering up to two daily connections. Brussels Airlines is expanding its network to African destinations, including Lomé (LFW, Togo), Dakar (DSS, Senegal), Conakry (CKY, Guinea), Monrovia (ROB, Liberia), Accra (ACC, Ghana), and Freetown (FNA, Sierra Leone), offering additional weekly connections. New to Lufthansa Group's flight schedule is Discover Airlines' connection from Frankfurt (FRA) to the Seychelles (SEZ).

Lufthansa Cargo’s 2025/2026 winter schedule will take effect on 26 October 2025, with bookings opening from 5 October. In addition to its own freighter network serving 53 destinations, the carrier will market bellyhold capacity on up to 7,500 weekly flights to more than 350 destinations operated by Lufthansa Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Discover Airlines, ITA Airways, and SunExpress.

The carrier will continue to provide fast access to nearly all major global markets with a stable Boeing 777 freighter network, operating up to 87 weekly rotations across 36 destinations.

Almaty (ALA) will again be added to the range of cargo destinations in Central Asia this winter. The transpacific flight from Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) to Los Angeles (LAX) will now have a stopover in Shanghai (PVG). This means that customers will be able to send cargo directly from Shanghai to North America.

Ahead of the winter schedule launch at the end of August, this additional connection is already open for booking. Lufthansa Cargo customers now have access to up to 50 weekly frequencies to the Asia-Pacific region, covering 17 destinations. In the Americas, the carrier offers 28 weekly services to 11 destinations in North America and four weekly services to four destinations in South America.

In particular, the carrier's home market in Europe, as well as the Middle East and Africa, benefits from its own A321F fleet. This winter, customers can book up to 37 weekly flights to 20 destinations from the Frankfurt and Munich hubs for fast transport on short- and medium-haul routes. The A321F network was recently further strengthened by the opening of the cargo station in Beirut (BEY) at the beginning of July.