Review: Lufthansa CityLine CRJ-900 Business Class (MUC-ZRH)

Everyone has different preferences, but for me business class is all about the seat and the room. Not only would I not pay extra money to sit in the same seat with the same room that I could get for less, I don't even see the point. To each their own, I guess.

I’m amazed that with all the flights you take in a year, you know that it’s been a decade since flying a particular plane/airline/cabin config!

Something I’ve always been curious about: when was your last trans-oceanic flight in Economy class itself? It must’ve been pretty memorable in retrospect

So, if I understand correctly, if you're an LH first class passenger departing Munich from a remote stand, you can be driven to your connecting flight. Interesting twist with your situation, as you were not then flying on the F ticket, but did you consider trying to go to the First Lounge and getting the drive to your flight?

To me is the dreaded middle seat (and having someone seating on it), that's the only reason (at least domestically) we would pay for domestic first. Recently flew from PLS-JFK on Jetblue and we got the only row with two seats and it was just fine

Indeed I find the seat important. Often within Europe the business class fare is very nearly the same price once adding in bags and seats. When you add lounge access and increased FF earnings it gets even better.

The last time I had a remote stand in Zurich there was an extra, small bus, just for the business class passengers. Is that service no longer provided ? My flight was on Swiss, not LH.

At least u get lounge access and a meal, even on a short flight like this. Good luck getting that in the US.

Only on Swiss

Want to comment the introduction with the "no frills experience". Esp. as this was written for this mini 30 minutes hop MUC-ZRH.
I am a German based at MUC area, and also a skeptical critic when it comes to LH long haul product. But I dissent to the continues remarks "Business in Europe is just the blocked middle seat". (of course, not on this flight as it was anyway a 2/2 type.
But these "non first class seats" in EU C, have a clearly economical reason for the carriers, with the given various, both in load factor and distance, continental legs within Europe and the necessary economical use of same aircraft types on these legs. (As example, same A320 of LH is doing a daily rotation on different legs like a mini leg FRA-MUC and then a mid haul MUC-LIS-MUC-FRA at the same day. That's the reason of these removable curtains, as same aircraft is used for taxi feeder type but also for mid haul distance one one daily rotation. All European carriers have to do so for economical reasons.

To book business within Europe make sense for two reasons. 1) It's a feeder for long haul and anyway part of the C ticket or 2) because of the entire business class package.
When it comes to the complete package, then the always saying, "everything about the seat" is a total minor factor to me on such such mini hops. I spent much more times on such legs without sitting in the plane as for the complete trip and such things as C class check in, baggage allowance, lounge access, fast security lane, priority baggage delivery, flexible ticket and so on, those are the factors for booking C within Europe.
(Beside that on like a two hour leg within EU, the soft product when it comes to meals and drinks/refills is on almost all EU legacy carries, incl. LH, better than on US first. (of course, if only the seat rules, okay it might be a different experience... but I don't take a sleep on such short distances, rather read a book or so in upright position..:-)

This is a nice review and doubly special as I fly this route fairly commonly- or into GVA and or FRA on LH. As a previous reviewer noted the seats don't matter that much, it's the overall Lounge to arrival experience that does. On-board food and snacks does worry me as I find these days I cannot eat most of it due to migraine triggers that a lot of theseore fancy snacks provide. I beg for airlines to make the food more plain simple and especially without cheese, chocolate, or similar [it's not a dairy allergy]..which means on most short haul business flights I cannot eat anything. Citric acid is another problem too. But the views into ZRH and GVA are worth it so make sure you get a seat on the best side of the aircraft. My best ever such flight was run by Air Dolomiti using their E190 aircraft. Roger from Australia..

Just FYI, the food and beverage service on the CR9 does not differ from that on the ERJ fleet or Lufthansa Mainline. That mini tray has been given out on some ultra-short breakfast routes independent of the A/C operating, like for example you would also receive it on FRA - HAM on an A321. It's basically just another service cut by Lufthansa.

As a frequent LX/LH traveller, I agree these aircraft offer beautiful views and I like the Business class free seat in the 2+2 configurations. Something that unfortunately other airlines (I regularly fly GVA to AMS on KLM) have not understood. They still pack their Business class 2+2 so one can barely open the lunch box provided. Well done LH !