While I wouldn’t say Lufthansa offers the world’s best first class product, the airline offers a solid experience across the Atlantic, at least among products that are (fairly easily) bookable with points. There’s something I love about flying the Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 in first class and visiting Lufthansa’s First Class Terminal in Frankfurt or First…
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MIA FRA nonstop has been close to impossible to book in LH first or business for years now it feels. Being based in MIA, I miss the old A380 days where award seats were plenty. Easy for business class and frequently available in first.
I've given up on LH F. I'll wait for them to sort out Allegris, then re-evaluate.
As @All Due Respect likes to say, Luftkafka.
One tactic I've taken to adopting is buying Lufthansa miles for first class on trips that really matter to me. It's certainly not cheap but having confirmed first class well in advance makes for a lot less jitters from my wife, which in turn makes me more relaxed. Different cities have wildly different award prices so there's a lot of YMMV.
Interesting, so, just direct to Miles & More, not even trying with Aeroplan or UA, etc. Probably the only 'sure-thing' because, yikes, the partner awards have all but evaporated lately.
@ Ben -- Posts like these are what make OMAAT the best travel blog. If I want National Enquirer stories, I can go to Publix and buy a copy (or NOT).
Availability from Boston using Aeroplan has declined over the last six months, but it is still there sometimes. I got to fly the A-380 back in August; very nice. Booked it two days in advance, changing from business class on the same flight. This was my first time ever on the A-380.
Thanks for explaining how to evaluate the likelihood of first class seats opening up. Great info.
Can you do a hold on an award with aeroplan? I already have 100k miles orphaned with them, when I had to cancel a flight. I need two tickets so I would have to transfer miles. They seem to have lost availability on United, and as I’m LAX based, they don’t have appealing options. ( from Montreal, it was only narrow bodies to LAX, and high prices got non- lie flats).
I’m hesitant to increase the balance if orphaned miles.