Is Lufthansa warning of a cutback of its freighter fleet?

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In perhaps the starkest warning yet that freighter fleets might simply be uneconomical even in the long-term, Lufthansa Cargo has told customers: “At the present yield levels there is again no economic justification for a freighter operation on many routes”. This incisive commentary by Cargo Facts shows that this is a more revealing sentence than the headline 20% rate increase.