Extended cooperation between Lufthansa Cargo and ITA Airways: The two companies will work even more closely together starting in September. Photo: Lufthansa Cargo
Extended cooperation between Lufthansa Cargo and ITA Airways: The two companies will work even more closely together starting in September. Photo: Lufthansa Cargo
2025-08-04

Also, the routes from Delhi (DEL), Tokyo-Haneda (HND), and Bangkok (BKK) to Rome-Fiumicino (FCO) are to be marketed and managed under the Lufthansa Cargo AWB prefix. Anand Kulkarni, Head of Global Markets at Lufthansa Cargo:

“We are proud to offer our customers additional capacity from Asia to Europe with these

three routes. The cooperation with ITA Airways successfully started in June, and we are pleased to take the next step together. Especially our newest hub in Rome is an important addition to our network to offer even faster and more reliable connections to Europe and worldwide; this further underscores our

motto ‘Enabling Global Business’.”

Lufthansa Cargo has been marketing the belly cargo capacity of ITA Airways on routes from South America to Rome since May 2025. The first flights of the new cooperation took place in June. With regulatory approvals, the cooperation is to be gradually expanded to all continental

and intercontinental routes of ITA Airways, according to the airfreight company.

Overall, the global offer of belly cargo capacity for Lufthansa Cargo customers is growing by almost 20 percent. In the future, freight customers will have access to an even denser global network, including the marketed belly cargo capacities within