I fly back today and hope to be able to try a different tasting Heimat menu. Tel: +240 333 09 2827 Absolutely disgusting. Twenty minutes ? Sunday to Thursday 08.30 – 17.00 hours Email: ppbscandinavia@dlh.de, France  Sign in. The flight attendants were pleasant, the food edible, and the flight was perfectly on time. Lufthansa - Boeing 787 and A350. Monday to Friday 09.00 – 18.00 hours I was on a longer route (LIS-MUC) this September and the catering was good. Plus, your own feed of TPG content. As the aircraft landed and taxied to its gate, employees from Lufthansa and Boston Logan Airport watched from the ground, noting that it was the first time the German carrier had brought its biggest plane to the New England airport. I also love the smell of the Malin + Goetz hand soap. This, coupled with buy-on board in Y and now coming to interconti...LH is less and less my go to! Sunday to Thursday 08.30 – 17.00 hours So even when you’re flying economy, I would always try to snag a seat on the first available row. What you got looks like a feast in comparison. airplane Premium T-Shirt. During boarding we were handed a disinfectant wipe. Tel: +46 851 99 3091 If you know that Eurowings, the low cost subsidiary of Lufthansa offers wifi, this was lackluster as well. The food was delicious and nicely presented. I was served a single cookie in Air France business class on a 1 hour flight from Paris to Düsseldorf. Fax: +971 43 313 602 You’ll need to enter Germany and walk over to the FCT yourself but will have access and be driven to your GLA flight. fly Business Class and stay at 5 Star hotels. Food ????? Network with the ”Lufthansa Group for Business” and follow us on LinkedIn. Monday to Friday 09.00 – 18.00 hours But at least it wasn’t a sandwich and an apple! While Lufthansa no longer provides complimentary cigars or cigarettes, the smoking lounge remains and offers a cordoned-off area to smoke indoors. You have successfully joined our subscriber list. Email: myppb@dlh.de, Azerbaijan  serve something more substantial on a 50-minute flight... And if KLM and Air France and ITA and CSA etc. Monday to Friday 09.00 – 17.00 hours Tel: +31 20 7218908 In most cases I would take a train instead of flying in Europe, unless we are looking at several hours more. Try it on another flight. My favorite bourbon is Blanton’s and the First Class Terminal even had this…so we had a birthday toast: There was also a wine-bar in the restaurant area with red, white, and rosé wine from around the world: One of my favorite parts of the First Class Terminal experience is being driven to your aircraft by a chauffeur. Of course it is not pretty. Some are decent, some aren’t. why is that different from Mike P.’s itinerary? The seats do not go 100% lie-flat, but you are not sliding down the seat either. If someone is flying business class within Europe (since that’s the highest class of service) to connect to first class to the USA can they access the Terminal? I recently paid a small fee to use this lane at Naples airport thus avoiding what looked like an hour-long wait. I flew FRA - MAD on LH in early September in J and the meal was very good, similar to what you show in your 'previous' meal photos. Email: myppb.romd@dlh.de, Norway Fax: +97143 313 602 Just wait until you are at your final destination. Monday to Friday 09.00 – 17.00 hours Soo grow up give some credit to his huge company for so many years providing amazing service and safety Ben's job is to review flights and air lounges not trains. Tel: +41 848 150 300 Tel: +36 1 429 2209 Sunday to Thursday 08.30 – 17.00 hours My travel companion went with the stuffed chicken. See a whole year of Reward Seat Availability on one page at SeatSpy.com, SriLankan Airlines resumes regular flights to and from India, Hilton to add refurbished Heidelberg hotel, Live life in the fast lane with Avis Preferred, A timely reminder about Cathays ‘The Wing ‘Cabana Suites. Lufthansa doesn’t offer any kind of pre-departure drink or water bottle. We were also presented with cute little menu cards. Surprised they stick around in this environment. - Lufthansa: "It's a 45 minute flight." British Airways also still flies the superjumbo, though its economy seats are just 17.5 inches wide. There's a lot of truth in that. But that’s generally more in line with what airlines serve within Europe in business class.Lufthansa’s former business class cateringLufthansa’s former business class catering. I have a question as I am preparing for my travel to Zurich in a few days with Lufthansa. That's just a great example of German quality, hospitality and customer care. Lufthansa currently has a fleet of Porsche sedans and Volkswagen vans. Not sure why airlines even offer to serve food on a 45 minute flight - no way to do it correctly and I seriously doubt anyone would starve if they didn't get something! I wonder if they serve this sandwich on the longer intra-europe flights also? Fax: +23 41 46224 25 One Credit Card at a Time has gone full TPG and has zero creditability. Unwashed hoping that you could verify if this was some kind of mistake. I appreciated that the restaurant staff, hired by Do & Co and not Lufthansa, were very attentive. Also included chocolate covered mascarpone that looks like a river rock over a bead of lingonberry compote. There was a main, side, and dessert as a morning offering - but the apple was there at the end. The key to get those photos is to be at the lounge at opening time – it stays mostly empty until almost 7:30 am. From there, you can turn left or right for comfortable seating in chairs clustered together, usually in groups of 4-8. No meal of any kind. And they left our luggage in Florida to fly in the next day via Houston, because, "they didn't have enough capacity (b/c fuel they said) to carry luggage when they fly to Colorado when it's snowing. At least you didn't get a pretzels and a candy bar... Why do you need food to carry you on a forty five minute flight? I do not want to bash Lufthansa here - normally I am the one here on OMAAT defending Lufthansa against all the haters because I find it to be a constantly good airline. Email: ppb.mexico@lufthansa.com, Bolivia After 40+ ears no mmore! Email: ppb.service@dlh.de, Luxembourg  Fax: +848 3 8298537 And as a flight crew member I know what I'm talking about... As someone who grew up in Germany, I loved the cheese sandwiches on black bread that my mother would make me. Makes you wonder why pay a premium over eco ticket. I flew KRK-FRA a week weeks back and had a very different "Heimat Hamburg". At first I wondered if this was some sort of a fluke. Email: partnerplusbenefithelpdesk@dlh.de, Ireland (Republic of)  Passengers who upgrade from business class or use miles to fly first class are eligible to use the First Class Terminal. They dare to serve only a sandwich on a 45 minute flight? "If I could go back in time, yes, probably, we wouldn't retire it," he added. From 2025, travelers will be able to enjoy a new travel experience on long-haul flights: SWISS Senses. - Traveler: "Oh, my bad. That's just unacceptable at the pricepoint. Otherwise the lounge looks just as it did the first time I remember it just as it opened in 2005. I left it. Email: partnerplusbenefit@dlh.de, Tunisia  Expand or conduct your international business with the network of our airlines and the partners to around 310 destinations around the world. Have you been on American internatonal Business? Just don't fly. Intra-European business class is just awful! If I do need to make a phone call, I step into one of these rooms, though many do make phone calls from the lounge. Email: ppbangola@dlh.de, Egypt  have much more varied and appealing flavor palates. Tel: +58 212 335 8948 Not to mention recent LH problems in BER airport. Monday to Thursday 08.00 – 16.30 hours I wonder how long it will take for Lufthansa to downgrade the catering from Do&Co to Sodhexo (most known for catering prisons in the UK) just as they have in other lounges. Given that the flight is relatively short and there are good ground transportation options, you have to wonder if meals like this reflect that the majority of passengers did have a better meal on a longer flight into FRA. Seafood salad with radicchio and sliced fennel, with rolls and a panna cotta for dessert. (function (d, s, n) { Last year in the lounge I enjoyed an omelet for breakfast…. Perhaps the description of the new meal concept isn’t that far off, though. He mentioned there was no earlier award inventory for earlier flights. Check here before booking an award fare. Glad you posted this and hopefully the Teutonic sensabilities will kick in to the mricing execs on the wrong places to get cheap and chintzy. Sounds like somebody is swallowing bs fed by the media regarding "sustainable traveling" - noticed as well hard push of "flight shamers" on the internet, who apparently are ready to give up a huge chunk of time to "have a good scenery" with virtue signaling sprinkled over regarding "green" and "ecological". Email: ppb.colombia@lufthansa.com, Mexico and Central America You would have access. We both had a glass of sparkling water along with it and were served some apple biscuits as well. Either way, you’ll have to get to the Terminal yourself. They pulled it back up after a few frantic phone calls, and we were able to board without issue. Yeah, don't give feedback to airlines, they might use it to improve their service. okay...thanks for the info. People like to charge their phone or laptop during a flight. The new catering does indeed taste like home… if I’m the one tasked with preparing meals. This site does not include all credit card companies or all available credit card offers. Anyone remember the name of the night bartender In FRA who makes killer martinis? ?747 intercontinental trip from Houston normal seats as usual, old use up This was a solid business class experience. As it turns out, this is Lufthansa’s new business class catering concept on intra-Europe flights. They had to retrieve these passengers’ luggage and offload it. All tasted very good and was well presented. Are you a UK citizen? . Change ). You ate filet mignon, not filet million. Saturday 08:00 – 18:00 hours Same thing happened with Finnair. Should you require a COVID-19 test, the onsite testing booth in the Terminal lobby has also been removed. Head to the Centogene test center in Terminal 1 near the long-distance train station for airport testing. Getting an Uber, getting through traffic, security, and now customs you are looking at 2-3 hours before your flight even leaves. Eastern Airlines Vintage Logo - Defunct Airline Logo Classic T-Shirt. Wow, you are truly missing out! Sign up for TPG’s free new biweekly Aviation newsletter. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. As for the description...sounds like the food is about what one should expect given all the woke buzzwords those phrases... As for the description...sounds like the food is about what one should expect given all the woke buzzwords those phrases contain. It’s giving less for more money! Covid has further shifted the distance on which people will fly further out, just as 9/11 did. The menus are inspired by German cities and ingredients should be more locally sourced and seasonal. Email: myppb@dlh.de, Switzerland Even before that change in the afternoon there has only been a piece of cake on the tray, nothing more. They didn’t proactively pass through the cabin to offer more drinks to passengers after the service, but when I pushed the call bell to order an extra coffee my call was swiftly responded to. Nowin that i AM upgrading TO PREMIUM! Certainly the lack of wifi and power ports is a let down. How my ancestors survived on this diet it beyond me. All in all I definitely enjoyed my flight and would fly Lufthansa again in a heartbeat. The new concept of Lufthansa intra-Europe business class catering (tasting HEIMAT) is really a bad joke. While I could have transferred all of the LifeMiles that I needed from Citi ThankYou Points, there was a promotion and a sweet spot that let me purchase up to 78% of the miles that I needed at just 1.5 cents per point. Fly in economy and don't whine, or just don't fly. Saturday 08:00 – 18:00 hours Advertiser Disclosure: Some links to credit cards and other products on this website will earn an affiliate commission. Fax: +2 02 25803529, Gabon  Boarding was on time and, given the less than 20% load for this flight, it was over in minutes. fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); I get that they served something different in the past so, in that sense, I can see your point, but I still thinking even expecting food on a flight shorter than some commuter rail runs is a little over-the-top. I will be honest, outside Turkish Airlines the European Business class hard product is already well below North American offerings. Nobody can eat all this, besides if you’re in business class you could load up on food before your flight in the lounge !?!? BUT hey, when you have a monopoly in... Munich to Tel Aviv nearly 4 hours flight time: CURRYWURST (PORK sausage with curry sauce) not just cost cutting, but culturally insensitive and insulting. “That’s my only real gripe about my visit: the menu is very limited (a shadow of the pre-pandemic menu) and even breakfast staples like a bowl of berries were not available.”, You can get Bircher muesli and Wiener schnitzel. This post was sponsored by Mighty Travels. And it is not only on the shortest flights. Monday to Friday 09.00 – 17.00 hours Check-in was a breeze at San Francisco International Airport - the airport was deserted with no passengers in the security lines at all. It was fried cabage and a cream sauce - so still better than a bBtterbrot. The "food" in economy is half a wrap willed with some mush...produced straight for the garbage! Lufthansa offers a business class product on most flights. 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Fax: +65 673 21370 Overall, I felt like a valuable client and appreciated the care and genuine friendliness of all the staff. It's about a 5 hour trip. Monday to Friday 09.00 – 17.00 hours Tel: +234 1 4612222, +234 1 4606251 Really? Tel: +995 32 224 33 29 It’s sad to see how they are affecting and dictating to the one airline ( Swiss) which was know industry wide as a boutique style airline with top notch catering and an inflight service which was second to none globally . On the short 45 minute afternoon flight from Frankfurt to Paris, I was served a totally different meal than what I’m used to on Lufthansa. To this end customers will be offered dishes including: The carrier said that the dishes were created by “young star chefs” Julia Komp and Dennis Puchert alongside the Gategroup culinary team. 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Given that the flight is relatively short and there are good ground transportation options, you have to wonder if meals like this reflect that the majority of passengers did have a better meal on a longer flight into FRA. Difference not only in Business Class but Economy as well...offering only one meal...pasta, on an oversea 8 hr. Fax: * It's not very special and not worth the price due to the short distance and same seating. I just flew in business with KLM from Vancouver to Amsterdam and then to Nairobi and the meals on both flights were the worst I have ever had, including economy flights. That's absolute nonsense. Inside it was a sock, cheap toothbrush/toothpaste, one loccitane lip balm and one small moisturizer. Even on ultra short flights (40min HAJ-FRA) a complete tray with a cold platter, salad and dessert was served. Not much to expect on such a short trip - even in Business. Still odd for a 7am flight! As with many European carriers, the differences between intra-Europe Business and longhaul Business are substantial-this review primarily addresses the intercontinental long haul business class experience. There was a place where the power port should be, but clearly Lufthansa picked the cheaper interior option. Coming back, it is the same way, I have a Business Class ticket from ZRH-FRA, and a separate First Class ticket from FRA-IAD. After the first round of drinks the main meal service started. However, according our good friend Ben’s post from OMAAT, it sounds like I would, as long as the arrival flight was on the same day (which it would be obviously). Monday to Friday 09.00 – 18.00 hours Lufthansa uses the same business class seat on the A350 as it does on all other planes. Opinions expressed here are the author’s alone, not those of any bank, credit card issuer, airline or hotel chain, and have not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of these entities. This is meant as a departure lounge for travel originating in Frankfurt, meaning you cannot use this lounge if your travel is terminating in Frankfurt (unlike like the First Class Lounges in the A Gate or the still-closed B Gate area, which ordinarily welcome arriving passengers). This is what happens when the entire Christian world goes without spiritual renewal by attending services. Fancier than the business flight from Sea-FRA! Their hard product does not match United on this route as there is little privacy in LH J. Yes, I had a good meal in C from FRA to ARN and back. Email: ppb.brasil@lufthansa.com, Ecuador I got the normal catering the other day on a flight about 40 mins longer than this one was. 2h 30m! Grow up folks. Lufthansa's A380s can seat 509 passengers across four cabins. The crew then prepares the galley to start the service 5 minutes. A very German meal after all. I am so excited tha, I greatly miss the @lufthansa #747-8 at @flylaxair. So, why should I fly Lufthansa and pay extra instead of just using Ryanair and paying 4 times less? There are some problematic staff members I’ve experienced during my many visits over the years, but none were present on the morning of my flight. Email: myppb@dlh.de, Montenegro  And a baby croissant. I had reviewed Lufthansa's business class on the A330-300 and 747-8, so I decided to book the Munich flight, since that was operated by an A350-900..