Lufthansa Cargo, with the prohibition of the flights nocturnes to Frankfurt Germany will be cut outside by world-wide the commercial routes



Next Sunday will take effect the prohibition of flights nocturnes on the airport of established Frankfurt as from a sentence of the Administrative court of the Assia that has received a resource of the citizens who inhabit in the surrounding area the airport port of call. The pronunciamento on 10 October, that it is last of a series of legal proceedingses on the flights the nocturnes and the expansion of the German airport, has tax the absolute prohibition of uses of the tracks between hours 23,00 and the 5.00.

Even if draft of a temporary, relative prohibition to the winter period, that it could be eventually removed from a next pronunciamento of the federal Administrative court of Leipzig, the stop to the flights nocturnes has induced the aerial carrier Lufthansa Cargo launch an alarm for a prohibition - it has explained the airline - that will be able to have immense consequences on the field of the international logistics.

Emphasizing of being forced beginning from to organize an emergency timetable for flights programmed next Sunday, the aerial company has denounced that the prohibition will have the effect to increase the costs for varied million tens euro. "It has been necessary - it has specified the president of Lufthansa Cargo, Karl Ulrich Garnadt - to transfer a sure number of flights to slot diurnals or in the first or last hours of the day. Single connections, for example with China - it has added - completely are cancelled, while other direct flights in China would have had to stop for various hours to the airport of Colony/Bonn after a departure evening from Frankfurt in order to fly of night, as initially previewed, in direction of the Far East. The prohibition of night flight - it has evidenced - has forced to apply a timetable to us that partially is economically and ecologically absurd. In future we will be forced to operate with takes off and useless landings, what that it will involve more noise, greater fuel burnup and an increase of the various operating costs for million".

"A prohibition total of the flights nocturnes - it has emphasized Garnadt - threat to cut Germany from world-wide the commercial routes. The closing for six hours every night of the seventh greater airport of the world, and therefore the consequent uncoupling from the international flows of the goods, represents a hard blow for the industry of the aerial transport. No other means of transport is subject to such operating restrictions".

Garnadt has concluded wishing that in its definitive sentence the Administrative court of Leipzig will allow the effettuazione the necessary minimal number of flights nocturnes: "firmly they are convinced - it has said - that the judge of Leipzig will reach a balance adapted between the economic necessities of the exports of the German nation and the interests of the local residents".