Frankfurt is one of the few airports in the world where arriving at a remote stand can be a good thing, assuming you're a first class passenger. Upon our arrival from Seattle there was a Mercedes waiting on the tarmac for the three first class passengers, so we were quickly whisked off to the terminal…
Continue reading: Chasing the Sun: Lufthansa First Class Lounge & Senator Lounge Frankfurt
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I recommend that you just link to a prior review of this stuff in the future. It seems to be unnecessary work for you, and it clutters your blog.
I really appreciate that you're starting to publishing trip report segments in quick succession rather than stringing them out. It makes following the trip much easier and more meaningful.
Great report. Have you tried Canada Dry Gingerale to go with your premium nuts?
Just wondering if the agent knows if one is flying with award ticket or paid ticket?
You sure do a lot of lounging around for a youngster.
Do they have scweppes bitter lemon?
@ JH -- I find that Lufthansa is the airline that probably discriminates least on award tickets. When I check-in I'm asked almost every time if I want to add a frequent flyer number to credit my miles to. So they don't really seem to care/realize (though the fare class is printed on the boarding pass).
You seem to have a thing for pretzels. Did you snag one in the Senator Lounge too? =)
We've seen this FCL review few times....perhaps you could merge it with another entry.
Wow, new Senator lounge seems actually welcoming. Totally different from old "all shades of gray" design they used to have. Wonder if they are/have been renovating all of the Sen lounges in FRA (and other airports like MUC) as well. But I'll know that in two weeks.
I love how everyone has a better idea of how you should format your blog. Just to fit in, I think this trip report is improperly titled. If you're "chasing the sun", then don't you have to fly west??
I think it's nice that Lucky gives a new update on the FCL lounge. Sometimes things change in the lounge or we can learn something new about it. Or maybe there's an especially interesting story from that particular lounge visit.
I don't think it clutters the blog. No one is forcing you to read that section.
Strange, but my favorite part was about the new Senator lounge. Having read so many TR's on FRA and the always "awesome" FCL experiences it's nice to learn something new. Thanks to US/LH award conflicts my future at FRA is a lot less FCL and more SEN.
Lucky in keeping with the: "I know how to do your job better" comments, why don't you write up the trip backwards? Maybe that would liven it up for those inconvenienced folks out there?
FYI I always enjoy your enthusiasm even if you've written about it before...it is never quite the same and that makes it always worthwhile for me.
Thanks for the report, I will have a similar trip in May ORD-FRA-BKK-RGN on LH/TG in C and F. There always seems to be some confusion as to what lounge you can access in FRA.
Lucky, any word on when/if FRA A330s will have the new F? I think MUC ones already do ... Or at least some of them.
@ AK -- Sadly haven't heard any news as to when those reconfigurations will start.
man I want you to book me this same itinerary when i cash in UR pts for united. I live in LA, i think there is a Luth 747 8i flight to FRA from LAX
@ choi -- I outlined the exact mileage used in the introduction post:
https://onemileatatime.com/chasing-the-sun-introduction/
I used 70,000 MileagePlus for the outbound and 67,500 AAdvantage for the return.
It always amazes me that one can go to BKK via EU or NRT/PEK/ICN Ffor 70k in F on UA while India is 80k from the East Coast of the US
Hey that is a whole lot closer
Same way, AA charges 67.5k for F class BKK to HKG to JFK
while JFK-LHR/AUH/BRU-BOM is 90k in F
Maybe we should just be happy and use the miles where they are cheapest.
I flew KMG-BKK-BLR-stop <24h-FRA-IAD in F for 70k
while BLR-FRA-IAD was 80k in F
Interesting. Last time I did a similar route (JFK-FRA(LFH)-FRA-BKK(TG)-BKK-HKG(TG))in F - I was met at the bottom of the terminal where the mercedes dumped us off for security by a woman with a sign with my name on it from Thai. She escorted me through a seperate security line and started to take me to the Senator Lounge. I asked her to take me to the FCL - which she did. She also came back 2/3 hours later for boarding onto the TG flight.
Perhaps you missed her with your sign?
This was took place this past June.
@ Mike -- Interesting. Thought I looked closely and didn't see an agent. But we did have a long layover, so maybe that had something to do with it.
+1 for backwards trip reports, it's clear that you really don't know what you're doing at all with this whole blogging thing, better listen to the real experts
The FRA T1B sen lounge design scheme was also used in the new T1A SEN lounges.
It is interesting that I am reading this blog post on a LH flight from DFW to FRA and then FRA-BLR. Sadly, LH stopped F class between DFW to FRA. But the FRA-BLR is on F. With a five hour lay over, i do intend to be in FCL.