World Airways has begun operating a Boeing 747-400 freighter for Lufthansa Cargo, providing two weekly round trips between Frankfurt, Germany, and Curitiba, Brazil. World Airways also operates three MD-11 freighters for Lufthansa Cargo.
The freighter connections to Curitiba are run jointly by Lufthansa Cargo and its Lufthansa Cargo Charter subsidiary, which charters the airfreight capacity. Lufthansa Cargo additionally serves the South American market with it own freighter flights to Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo/Viracopos, as well as with belly capacities on Lufthansa passenger aircraft on flights to Sao Paulo/Guarulhos, Caracas and Buenos Aires.