Cargo isn’t usually the preferred job for airline executives but don’t try to tell that to Ulrich Ogiermann. The Cargolux chief executive left the passenger business over a decade ago while he was working for Lufthansa and is not about to go back.

“The people were speaking a different language I liked,” Ogerimann recalls when he first took the position of route management manager for the Americas at Lufthansa Cargo. “With cargo, there’s much more importance in designing a network,” he adds. “Network planning is everything because you have all of these one-way flights.”

He says managing a cargo operation is also more challenging than overseeing a passenger business because ground handling is more complicated. Then there is the added layer of truck

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