I recently wrote a post asking whether you guys think I hype Lufthansa first class too much, given how much I love them. Im doing my best to put down my pom poms and #TeamLufthansa shirt, but just had another spectacular flight in Lufthansa first class between Vancouver and Munich, a route they’ve been serving…
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I am very happy to be back in the friendly confines of the LH F cabin tonight, and for the better part of the next 24 hours en route to NRT...
I ve just checked on UA site and everyday in beginning of June is the old A340 , so not the new cabin you had. scrap my plan for that route.
@ choi -- Which route? On Vancouver to Munich looks like the A330-300 to me...
Wow now I am really jealous! Someday I will have to take that trip (if it is still there then), perfect reason to fly to Vancouver, one of my favorite city, and hop over to Munich for some fine beer! Awesome combo in my book!
Interesting route, hard to believe there's sufficient density for this route to support itself. It looks seasonal, only running through October 5th. And from my searches it looks like it runs an A330 everyday except for May 31st which is A340 as choi mentions above.
Just took LH new first class Chicago to Munich last month with my wife. Couldn't be happier. A wonderful experience all around and thanks to Lucky for over-hyping this and showing how easy it is to do as well.
Lucky, do people connecting on another airline get the same arrival treatment (driven to and able to use the FCL)?
How far out did you book this in F? Also what other routes offer good availability for LH F (new)? Do you know the plans for fleet upgrades ie when all planes will have new F)?
Does their wifi ever work, 6 flights from Denver, not operational on any one flight, this certainly knocks them down a peg to me
Wow at first I thought you were the person sitting behind me on my Friday YVR-MUC first class flight (they told me they were a member of Flyertalk too)
At first when we parked at the remote stand I said - oh a bus to the terminal. The flight attendant in first quickly came up to me and said.. no the Porsche and Mercedes is for you. The most outstanding part of Lufthansa F is the plane side pickeup and escort to security and customs in the lounge. That is a fantastic experience!
I originally booked my trip on Lufthansa last weekend because of your trip reports and enthusiasm for LH First Class. I personally find the food, seats and service in Lufthansa new F to be good but from Vancouver I personally prefer British Airways 747 service to Vancouver. Especially considering on the return I flew FRA-YVR in the uncomfortable old F ughh. Hard to believe they can price the product the same between the new F and the old on Lufthansa. I sure would recommend if flying from Vancouver to Europe on Lufthansa choose the YVR-MUC route instead of YVR-FRA so you can get the new F.
sorry Lucky, it was the yvr-fra not Muc, do you know if the 747-400 F on LH is converted to the bed and seat and not the buff pastry chair they have on the old F ?
@ choi -- 17 of the 21 747-400s feature the new first class, so there's a very good chance of getting it.
@ wwk5d -- That's an arrival service, it doesn't matter whether you're connecting or not, or for that matter which airline you're connecting on. As long as you arrive at a remote stand you should get that treatment.
@ Chris -- All the Munich based A330s have the new first class installed. None of the FRA based A330s have the new first class yet.
@ Jeremy -- I booked it only about a week out. Here's a post I wrote about the progress of new first class being installed on Lufthansa:
https://onemileatatime.com/how-to-know-whether-your-lufthansa-flight-will-feature-the-new-first-or-business-class-cabins/
Routes with the new first that have good award space? YVR-MUC, CLT-MUC, ORD-MUC, IAD-MUC, JFK-MUC, etc.
Was just on Lufthansa's new F on 744 and although service was fantastic, the hardware: with recliner and bed are simply not well thought out. Not to mention indeed, the inflight entertainment with horribly limited content!
Lucky, one other thing I keep forgetting to ask about these seats, are people able to sit together for dinner using the ottoman?
This is why you are my favorite blogger. Your content is very original and makes me want to travel to different places (in style every now and then is OK 🙂 )
PS Enjoy Budapest, it is so much fuuuun!
Did you have First class all to yourself? I'd think the best way to fly over the Atlantic is SQ Suites... 😉
I flew LH F last week (new F... 747-8i) and also found the IFE to be pretty disappointing. The # of movies/shows was pretty extensive, but just didn't have anything I really wanted to watch.
@Peetyrd, flight probably headed NE towards Greenland where at this time (spring/summer) there is normally close to 24 hours of sunshine.
@ wwk5d -- If you're seated in the center seats you're so close together that there's not really a need to face one another. For that matter, though, you actually can't use the ottoman as a seat.
@ Joey -- The cabin was half full. Really is the perfect number of people, and service was great. While the hard product on Singapore might be better, you don't get the ground services offered by Lufthansa, so I'd rather take Lufthansa for a transatlantic flight.
@ Peetyrd -- It confused me too, but it was a really northerly route, and this time of year it's near 24 hours of sunlight "up there."
Our best transatlantic was ZRH-SFO on Swiss F-class mid-March. Only the two of us in F and two excellent attendants taking care of us. Have to agree, though, that the seats weren't all that comfortable for sitting. The attendants kept (nicely) trying to have us try other selections from the menus as "it (food) all has to be thrown out on arrival in San Francisco". What a hard life we live.........