LUFTHANSA CARGO is scrapping the fuel surcharge it introduced last November.
The airline imposed the surcharge on all shipments in its entire network as a result of the dramatic rise in jet fuel prices. It amounted to 10 US cents per kilo of freight.
In dropping the surcharge, Lufthansa Cargo is honouring the commitment it gave last November to scrap it as soon as fuel prices fell to the level of July 1996, cargo manager for Southern Africa Ulrich Ogiermann told FTW.
That level has now been reached. Experience has shown that a renewed rise in jet fuel prices is not normally expected in the (European) summer months.
