Regular service to Guadalajara with MD-11 freightersAs of July 22, 2009, for the first time Lufthansa Cargo will be offering a connection to the Mexican city of Guadalajara (GDL). Once a week, on Wednesdays, Lufthansa's freight subsidiary will be flying with an MD-11F freighter to the metropolis with its population of a million. The flight will operate from Frankfurt via Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) to Guadalajara and again via Dallas back to Frankfurt. Guadalajara is a large commercial center and an important industrial location. The city with its one million inhabitants is also known as the 'Silicon Valley' of Mexico. Further capacities to and from Mexico are available to Lufthansa Cargo customers twice a week on flights to Mexico City (MEX) with MD-11 freighters as well as daily in the cargo holds of Boeing 747-400 passenger aircraft of the Lufthansa Passage Airline from Frankfurt to Mexico City. Lufthansa Cargo AG Lufthansa Cargo ranks among the world's leading cargo carriers. In the 2008 financial year, the airline transported around 1.70 million tons of freight and mail and clocked up 8.3 billion revenue ton-kilometers. The company currently employs about 4,600 people, worldwide. Lufthansa Cargo focuses on the airport-to-airport business. The cargo carrier serves some 300 destinations in 90 countries in a global network with its own fleet of freighters, the belly capacities of Lufthansa's passenger aircraft and an extensive road services network. The bulk of the freight transported by Lufthansa Cargo is trans-shipped through Frankfurt. Lufthansa Cargo is a wholly owned Lufthansa subsidiary. In the 2008 financial year, it posted revenues totaling 2.9 billion euros.