In 2024, we saw Lufthansa’s new Allegris passenger experience take to the skies, several years behind schedule. With these cabins flying, it’s understandable that people actually want to experience this product, and see what it’s like.
In this post, I want to provide a rundown of the routes that currently feature Lufthansa Allegris cabins, and are expected to feature them in the coming months. As more of these planes enter service, more passengers also have the opportunity to experience this.
While we’re already well into the summer schedule, Lufthansa has just published its planned winter schedule for Allegris, so we now have a lot more information.
In this post:
What is Lufthansa Allegris?
Allegris is the name of Lufthansa’s new passenger experience. While Allegris branding applies in all cabins (and in the future, even lounges), it’s the new Allegris first class and Allegris business class that people are most excited about.
The new Allegris business class is probably the most exciting development, because for years, Lufthansa had an outdated business class product, but the airline has finally introduced a much more competitive business class experience. I had the chance to fly one of Lufthansa’s first Allegris flights, so you can read my impressions here.
We’ve also seen Lufthansa roll out its Allegris first class, though this has been a bit more challenging of a process. The initial Allegris A350s didn’t have the first class cabins installed, so we’re now seeing those seats retrofitted on all Allegris A350s.
Which planes have Lufthansa Allegris cabins?
In the coming years, the new Allegris passenger experience should become the norm rather than the exception. However, for the foreseeable future, you’ll only find the new Allegris cabins on newly delivered Airbus A350-900s. Lufthansa has already put nine of these jets into service, and we should progressively see more of these join the fleet in the coming years.
For those into tracking planes, D-AIXR, D-AIXS, D-AIXT, D-AIXU, D-AIXV, D-AIXW, D-AIXX, D-AIXY, and D-AIXZ, are the first nine A350s flying with the new cabins.
We’ll see how the timeline evolves, but Lufthansa hopes to have 30 jets with Allegris cabins in service by the end of 2025, and plans to finish reconfiguring planes with Allegris cabins by the end of 2027.
Let me caution that I don’t think that timeline will stick, and that end of 2027 timeline also refers to reconfiguring planes that are expected to get the new cabins, as not all planes will get Allegris cabins.
Which routes feature Lufthansa Allegris cabins?
Lufthansa’s A350s with Allegris cabins are all based in Munich (MUC), so for the time being, you’ll only find the product on long haul routes from that airport. The product should become available out of Frankfurt (FRA) eventually, once the airline can put new Boeing 787-9s into service (these are delayed due to certification issues with the new Allegris cabins on that jet).
For the current summer season (through October 25, 2025), you’ll find the Allegris A350s flying from Munich (MUC) to the following destinations on select frequencies:
- Bangalore (BLR)
- Charlotte (CLT)
- Chicago (ORD)
- Newark (EWR)
- San Diego (SAN)
- San Francisco (SFO)
- Shanghai (PVG)
For the upcoming winter season (starting October 26, 2025), you’ll find the Allegris A350s flying from Munich (MUC) to the following destinations on select frequencies:
- Bangalore (BLR)
- Cape Town (CPT)
- Chicago (ORD)
- Miami (MIA)
- New York (JFK)
- Newark (EWR)
- Shanghai (PVG)
- Tokyo (HND)
Let me emphasize that aircraft assignments always remain subject to change, and don’t assume that all frequencies will necessarily be operated by Allegris A350s. If a route is scheduled to be operated by an Allegris jet, you’ll see that Lufthansa’s website has a note saying “Allegris: New seat concept” when making a booking.
Also remember that Lufthansa has fees to assign many types of seats in Allegris business class, given the huge variance in quality between the seats.
Bottom line
Lufthansa Allegris is increasingly becoming a reality, with the first nine Munich-based A350s featuring the new cabins now flying. Lufthansa is now regularly scheduling these planes on select routes, so it’s possible to plan your journey around the experience pretty reliably.
Ultimately don’t expect too much of an expansion of the concept beyond this until Lufthansa can get its Allegris 787s certified. When that happens, we’ll see a huge boost to Allegris capacity, as over a dozen 787s are ready to go, but are just awaiting certification.
Do any OMAAT readers have plans to fly Lufthansa Allegris?
I found my Allegreis seats a flight from ORD to MUC terribly uncomfortable. The functionality of the seat recline/air and the excessively heavy ipad thing they've installed were all rather annoying compared to more traditional J seats. I appreciate the effort made with upadating everything and maybe I was just having a bad night trying to sleep in general, but I came off the flight feeling rather meh about it all, unfortunately.
I find it stunning that "San Francisco (SFO)" got downgraded to the old business class for the winter and summer 2026 schedule, as it had Allegris shortly after its launch.
I was almost ready to book the SFO-MUC route when I noticed the old seat configuration in the A350 seat map. For regular fliers who are already used to the new cabin on a given route that is quite a disappointment.
No one wants to go to San Francisco in the winter.
Commerce doesn't hibernate for the winter, though.
@Ben, are the seat fees refunded if LH pulls a plane swap? Have they been good about keeping the Allegris aircraft for the specific routes/dates?
I could see this being a problem with LH since you are now actually paying for a specific seat type vs in the past airlines can swap you to anything and say it's still business class.
Folks, grab the opportunity, quickly. If you are diligent, perseverant, patient and monitor all the LH flights regularly, you may have a chance to win the "Allegris" lottery...
For non-risk takers, I would suggest to take Lee's advice below -- there are other options as well.
When it comes down to it, irrespective of airline, the current generation of business class seat / suite is nice. LH is nothing special. London and Paris work well for hubs and there's not an issue of access to award inventory.
I know we are all cynics here about the Allegris roll out but according to LH they have been surveying passengers about it and guess what?!
“ The carrier said that more than half a million passengers have now flown in Allegris across the four classes, “with extremely high satisfaction rates of nearly 100%”!! So people like paying high seat selection fees to get the nice seats! Who knew!?
those satisfaction rates sound as legitimate as their 5th skytrax star...
Or Carsten Spohr's shorthaul free coffee
... Or even their fourth one, for that matter.
Ben - data point to update your Allegris seat fees blog - I flew SAN - MUC just a couple of weeks ago and I let them assign me a seat. Even at check-in, any seat besides a "standard" seat was still being charged full price as per that pricing sheet you shared. All of the "suite" seats in my flight were empty (and one was already broken lol). At the airport I tried to...
Ben - data point to update your Allegris seat fees blog - I flew SAN - MUC just a couple of weeks ago and I let them assign me a seat. Even at check-in, any seat besides a "standard" seat was still being charged full price as per that pricing sheet you shared. All of the "suite" seats in my flight were empty (and one was already broken lol). At the airport I tried to see if the check-in agent could assign me to a different seat and it still would have required a fee.
That's interesting, I flew EWR-MUC last month and the check-in agent put me and my wife in the suites when we asked, no second thoughts, no additional fee.
I was a LH Group loyalist for more than decade before switching to AF/KL in late 2023. I haven't looked back since. No airline group is perfect, but LH is so far behind the times while charging ridiculous fares that there's no incentive to ever pick them for long-haul J.
Leave it to Lufthansa to hype up mostly average to below average seats with high fees to choose the decent ones.
Apart from the first and last rows, this is a very high density cabin like Polaris. Add Lufthansa service and I don't see why people who are not from FRA/MUC or without corporate contract would fly them.