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[ABXbooger]

26-Jun-2007 : LUFTHANSA Cargo and DHL Express will establish a joint cargo carrier, commencing operations from Leipzig Halle airport in 2009.

Project name ‘NewCo’ will operate 10 freighters, most likely Boeing 777F or Boeing 747-400F aircraft. The new airline will fly intercontinental routes to North America, Asia and the Middle East, carrying express shipments and general cargo. The airline will be headed by Lufthansa manager Thomas Papke.

DHL was originally in negotiations with Cargolux and Emirates for such a venture. Insiders expect that personal relations between DHL and Lufthansa managers were key in the tie-up between the two companies. Klaus Zumwinkel, chairman of DHL’s parent company DPWN, is member of Lufthansa’s board of directors while Lufthansa’s former chief executive officer Jürgen Weber has a seat in DPWN’s board of directors.

 

[Batfish]

Why does DHL need to team up with another airline to provide service. Why not just have the Yellow and red ones add some aircraft and start the routes? I guess I am missing something. -batfish

 

[hvydriver]

Batfish,

It's classic DHL. They like to have multiple carriers. That way, they don't have to be concerned about any one airline's "labor troubles" to cause too much interruption of service. I'd thought that when DPWN bought out DHL, that philosophy would change. It hasn't.

 

[Captain Morgan]

Kinda like how Hitler occupied many different companies but didn't call them all Germany... Hmmm.. ok that was bad. :laugh:

 

[Whistlin' Dan]

In case anybody was still wondering why there's been "0" growth at DHL/Astar for the last 10 years...

 

[penguin22]

Batfish,

It's classic DHL. They like to have multiple carriers.

hvydriver,
looks like, at least in the US market, they've decided that to compete with FDX/UPS, its better to just have one carrier.

In case anybody was still wondering why there's been "0" growth at DHL/Astar for the last 10 years...

Now there's a guy that simply has no clue...
you just gotta laugh!

 

[hvydriver]

Yeah, I gotta tell ya Penguin, I'm pretty amazed right about now. Good luck to all. The Fat Lady hasn't sung yet.

 

[Whistlin' Dan]

looks like, at least in the US market, they've decided that to compete with FDX/UPS, its better to just have one carrier.

Or that they're going to need to go public to raise enough money to bring their fleet up to 1990's standards, and that neither company has much value when they're slugging it out over DHL's business.

 

[abxaviator]

Let's not forget Polar, I doubt they'll be left out of all this.

 

[Box-Hauler]

ABX = Teamsters

Atar = ALPA

Polar = ?

who represents Polar, might give us an idea of which way things will go