From June 3, 2024, Lufthansa Cargo will offer a connection from its European hub in Frankfurt to the North American city of Monterrey. The journey includes a route from Frankfurt to Mexico City, continuing to Monterrey International Airport, and then returning to Frankfurt. A B777F will fly this new rotation every Monday, which is particularly interesting for automotive suppliers, electronics manufacturers, and customers transporting medical products. Additionally, for North America, the German company will activate direct connections from Frankfurt to Minneapolis and Raleigh-Durham.
"We are pleased to add Monterrey as an additional station to our cargo network for our customers," says Ashwin Bhat, CEO of Lufthansa Cargo. "Connecting the commercial and industrial city of Monterrey with the European market as the first European cargo airline underscores our strategic growth towards new markets and our goal of enabling global business. With this new addition, Lufthansa Cargo will serve North America with up to 33 weekly cargo frequencies and South America with up to 4 weekly frequencies, in addition to belly flights."
The German company will add a stop in Dubai along the route from Shanghai to Frankfurt. The short and medium-haul network of the A321P2F cargo fleet will also increase in the summer flight schedule: on the route from Frankfurt to Helsinki, a stop in Riga, Latvia, will be added. Lufthansa Airlines will expand its destinations from Munich, adding Trondheim in Norway, Nantes in France, Oulu in Finland, and Chișinău in Moldova, as well as the North American metropolises of Seattle, Toronto, and Vancouver, providing belly hold.
Remaining within the Lufthansa Group, Austrian Airlines will fly directly from Vienna to Los Angeles and Boston, while Discover Airlines will fly from Frankfurt to Anchorage and Halifax in Canada during the summer. Additionally, Brussels Airlines will integrate its summer flight program with additional connections from Brussels to Nairobi and Kigali.
