As from next 1 September, Lufthansa Cargo will be responsible for the marketing of cargo capacity and freight handling for AirMadrid across the Spanish carrier’s entire network. Amongst other things, the cooperation will enable Lufthansa Cargo to offer its customers even denser network coverage on routes to and from South America.

AirMadrid flies from Barcelona to Buenos Aires (Argentina), Fortaleza (Brazil), Santiago de Chile (Chile), Bogota and Cartagena (Colombia) and Guayaquil (Ecuador), as well as from Madrid to Buenos Aires (Argentina), Santiago de Chile (Chile), Lima (Peru), Quito and Guayaquil (Ecuador), San Jose (Costa Rica), Panama City (Panama) and Bogota and Cartagena (Colombia). The airline also serves Toluca (Mexico) plus a number of destinations within Europe.

As part of the cooperation agreement, Lufthansa Cargo will open five new handling stations in Latin America.

“The collaboration with AirMadrid will massively strengthen our presence in the key markets in South America. We can now offer our customers regular point-to-point services to and from South America coupled with Lufthansa Cargo’s proven quality and safety standards,” commented Dr. Andreas Otto, member of the Lufthansa Cargo Executive Board responsible for Marketing and Sales.

Jose Luis Carrillo, Chairman of AirMadrid added: “During our search for a suitable cooperation partner, the decisive factors were reliability, professionalism, global position and well-founded market knowledge of a cargo carrier. Lufthansa Cargo is therefore the ideal partner to market our airfreight capacities.”

The Spanish carrier AirMadrid was founded in 2003. Since May 2004 it has operated mainly on routes from Spain to South America. Additional feeder routes in Spain and to and from Paris, Milan, Rome and Bucharest round off the airline’s current offering. In addition to five Airbus A330s, AirMadrid’s fleet comprises an A340, an A310 and an A319. The fleet will be strengthened by the purchase of two A330s and an A319 by the end of this year. AirMadrid then plans to add São Paulo, Miami, Los Angeles and London to its route network and to raise frequencies on its existing routes to Buenos Aires, Rome and Paris.