Lufthansa Cargo has slammed the provisional night-flight ban clamped on Frankfurt Airport from October 30 at short notice by a regional court.
Lufthansa Cargo chairman Karl Ulrich Garnadt said: “The night-flight ban has forced us to lay on a timetable which in part is economically and ecologically absurd.
“We will be operating in future with unnecessary take-offs and landings, which will lead to more noise, higher fuel consumption and more costs running into millions.”
Also, from January, at least one MD-11 freighter is to be transferred from Frankfurt to Cologne/Bonn Airport to operate the indispensable overnight flights for the German logistics industry to North America.
A blanket night-flight ban threatens to sever Germany from the global trade lanes, added Garnadt. “Closing the world’s seventh biggest airport for six hours each night and thereby decoupling it from the international goods flows constitutes a severe blow to the air traffic industry. No other transport mode is subject to such operational restrictions.”
