Lufthansa is planning a change to its fleet strategy for 2025, in light of ongoing aircraft delivery delays, plus the company’s dissatisfaction with Munich. I first wrote about rumors of these plans last week, but it’s now official, and these flights have been scheduled.
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“This is currently with the older 2-2-2 business class.”
That’s the key sentence right there. No thanks.
Agreed. I would just fly Condor these days tbh. They're way cheaper and the seats are significantly better.
@ Redacted -- Hah, though in fairness, the A350-900 in business is at least more comfortable than the A330 or A340 fleet based in FRA, as the cabin is a bit more modern and wider.
They really need a consistent product across the board and their A350s are a perfect example.
Modern and wide cabin unfortunately does not compensate for uncomfortable, unpractical business class seats. I just spent 14 hrs on LH 747-800, upper deck, nice and intimate, but bad seats were still just bad seats. Fortunately it was my wife on the window seat climbing over me whenever she needed to go somewhere, not some random passenger.
At least it was an award flight, I would not pay much cash for that.
Over the years I moved the majority of my connections to MUC instead of FRA. At first it was a new city to explore. I fell in love with Munich on my layovers. But then I noticed the improvement in experience, increasing flights to global destinations, lack of major delays (Oktoberfest aside). There is no going back. I'd rather fly OG business class through MUC than LH First Class through FRA. It's just that great.
I have yet to fly LH‘s Allegris business class, but I am a big fan of LH‘s small A350 subfleet with Thompson Vantage XL business class seats (like the ones used by SAS). LH primarily deploys these planes to Canada and India. I hope they will remain based in MUC!
Beats me why they would choose FRA over MUC. MUC is a modern world class airport with all the amenities a traveler could desire, shops with regular prices, multiple decent restaurants, while FRA is a horrible dump, a relict from the past, with dark low hallways, and not even a single open shop to be found after 4 pm on a Sunday. I dread it every time I have to leave from there on my Condor flights to the US. The only nice place in FRA I know is the LH lounge, and I make a bee line there as soon as I am checked in. Staffing problems? Well, just pay people what they deserve, after all Munich is a bit more costly, and you won't have staffing problems.