Condor prioritizes digital cargo growth, partnering with cargo.one
- Partnership means Condor’s entire global network will be available for instant digital booking on cargo.one
- Condor and cargo.one teams closely collaborate to enrich offer quality and boost digital adoption rates
- cargo.one will help Condor to maximize belly capacity digital sales for its super-efficient Airbus long-haul fleet
Neu-Isenburg | Berlin, July 3, 2024 – Condor, Germany’s most popular leisure airline, has entered a new expanded partnership with cargo.one to make its entire global network available on the market leading digital procurement platform. The airline is now working closely with cargo.one to target thousands of freight forwarders across cargo.one’s vast footprint of markets. Condor will work with cargo.one experts to bolster digital sales efforts in key forwarding markets such as Europe and USA.
With almost 70 years of air cargo experience and a world-famous bold livery, Condor is a key carrier in the DACH aviation sector. Utilizing belly capacity from a fleet of more than 50 aircraft and ground facilities in Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Zurich, Condor offers capacity to over 100 destinations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Indian Ocean, North America and the Caribbean. Condor’s cargo operations benefit from its growing fleet of ultra modern and fuel efficient Airbus A330neo wide body aircraft.
Freight forwarders will benefit from the most seamless and user-friendly way to discover, quote and book Condor capacity around the clock. cargo.one is the go-to industry choice for procuring the best capacity and end to end buy rates, and making highly accurate, confirmed bookings at speed.
Thilo Schäfer, Head of Cargo at Condor, comments, “It is imperative to our digital cargo strategy that Condor services are present on the most popular and relevant booking platforms. Benefiting from our long-standing cooperation, cargo.one can guarantee that every Condor customer receives an excellent experience. We value the commercial expertise that cargo.one brings in supporting Condor to best target market potentials.”
Moritz Claussen, Founder & Co-CEO of cargo.one, “We have great pride and affection towards our collaboration with Condor. Having kicked off Condor’s digital distribution with its cargo partners back in 2020, we are excited to now be supporting the airline directly to accelerate its digital sales trajectory, and fully capitalize upon its many market potentials.”
Partnering with cargo.one delivers airlines like Condor a rapid increase in sales reach for valuable global markets such as the Americas, Asia and Africa. In time, Condor aims to launch its general cargo, passive temperature controlled and perishables capacity in all relevant markets taken from cargo.one’s community in 121 countries.
Using a top-quality live integration to Condor and in-house offer excellence experts, cargo.one supports the airline to guarantee the best possible offer accuracy. cargo.one’s unique Airline Growth teams assist Condor to compliantly learn about and address optimal market opportunities.
From July 2024, freight forwarders using cargo.one can book Condor capacity firstly for destinations in Europe, USA and Canada, with more regions worldwide being added in the coming weeks.
As Germany's most popular leisure airline, Condor operates a fleet of more than 50 aircraft and has been taking its guests to the world's most beautiful holiday destinations since 1956 – from 13 airports in Germany and Zurich as well as Basel in Switzerland to around 90 destinations all around the world.
In spring 2022, Germany's most popular leisure airline unveiled its new brand identity: The new design was unveiled with the first A330neo, which is operated by Condor since December 2022 and offers even more belly capacity. As the German launch customer, Condor will then be flying 21 A330neo long-haul aircraft. Thanks to state-of-the-art technology and maximum efficiency, the latest-generation 2-liter aircraft is the European front-runner with 2.1 liters per passenger per 100 kilometers and maximum customer comfort.
Press Contact
Johanna Tillmann
Spokesperson
kommunikation@condor.com
Founded in 2017, cargo.one (Cargo One GmbH) is a platform for booking and marketing air freight capacity. Trusted by over 20,000 freight forwarders in 121 countries, cargo.one offers instant booking for airline and agent rates across more than 50 airlines, and was the first platform of its kind.
cargo.one pro equips agents to compare, book and track shipments, leveraging thousands of live and static rates, while importers can book instantly using other verified forwarding partners 24/7. Export agents win new business from import agents worldwide, all secured with global non-payment protection. cargo.one for enterprise offers an extensive range of API suites, delivering the strongest quality real-time market content through one endpoint. Leading forwarders worldwide rely upon cargo.one’s enterprise-ready solutions for instant customer quoting, pricing, and sales.
cargo.one partners with dozens of global airlines and airline groups including Lufthansa, IAG Cargo, Singapore Airlines Cargo, American Airlines, Air Canada, LATAM, TAP Air Portugal, Finnair, Etihad, All Nippon Airways, JAL CARGO, Nippon Cargo Airlines, Eastern Air Logistics, Air France KLM Martinair Cargo, Turkish Cargo and Qatar Airways Cargo.
cargo.one’s rapidly growing user base includes leading players such as Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, Agility Logistics, DACHSER and Flexport. The company has won awards including ‘Information Technology for the air cargo industry’ in the World Air Cargo Awards 2022 and 2021, 'Air Business of the Year' at the UK Logistics Awards 2022, the 'International IT Systems Provider of the Year’ Award 2023, and ‘Cargo Booking Platform of the Year’ in the Payload Asia Awards 2023. cargo.one is a Trustee of The International Air Cargo Association, TIACA, the highest level of membership.
cargo.one has raised significant funding to date from internationally prominent investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Creandum, Next 47, Point Nine Capital and Lufthansa Cargo.
Press Contact
Richard Stevenson
PR & Communications
richard.stevenson@cargo.one
