News / Lufthansa Cargo set to announce a second airline joint-venture by year-end

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Lufthansa Cargo is to announce another far-reaching joint-venture by the end of the year.

Delegates at the Freighters and Belly Cargo conference in Abu Dhabi heard yesterday that it would be a single airline deal and not involve All Nippon Airways (ANA), its current JV partner.

Bernhard Kindelbacher, Lufthansa’s senior VP strategy, subsidiaries and business development, recalled the first days of the ill-fated Wow alliance in 2002 and the excitement of the sales team in the New York offices of Lufthansa Cargo ...