by Lufthansa Flyer | Nov 14, 2014 | Destinations, Featured, Lufthansa |
Lufthansa has announced a new gateway city in the USA beginning next fall.
Tampa Bay, Florida becomes the latest addition to Lufthansa’s timetable and will see service from Frankfurt beginning on September 25, 2015. The new route will be year-round with 5 weekly flights during the summer and 4 weekly flights during the winter.
The departing flight from Frankfurt will be Flight LH482, leaving Frankfurt at 11:00a and arriving in Tampa at 3:50p. The return flight will be LH483, departing Tampa at 5:20p and arriving in Frankfurt the following morning at 8:45a. Flight time will be approximately 11 hours.
The route will be flown by a 3-class A340 so passengers can choose from Business, Premium Economy or Economy bookings.
The fares are already loaded on Lufthansa.com are now ‘bookable’!
by Lufthansa Flyer | Nov 12, 2014 | Lufthansa, Premium Economy |
Lufthansa’s rollout of their new Premium Economy class is moving along ahead of schedule. According to LH, their 747-8i fleet will be completely retrofitted with Premium Economy on November 22, 9 days ahead of their previous commitment.
This means that passengers flying to Chicago, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Bangalore, Los Angeles, Peking, Mexico City, Washington DC and Tokyo Haneda will have the option of booking a Premium Economy seat a bit sooner than expected.
To celebrate the launch of the new cabin, Lufthansa is currently offering a 15% discount on ANY Premium Economy Booking made through December 9, 2014. This offer brings the price of Premium Economy Seat within only a few hundred dollars of even the lowest Economy class fare, making it a compelling proposition to sample the product!
The rest of fleet’s retrofit is going according to schedule and each long haul aircraft should have Premium Economy in place by the end of Summer 2015.
To see all of my other Premium Economy related content including trip reports, installation photos and rollout schedules, please click here.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Nov 10, 2014 | Featured, Lufthansa, Route Announcements |
LUFTHANSA has announced several changes to their West African timetable effective March 29, 2015. The change affects 3 routes and amounts to a minor re-shuffling.
Frankfurt – Abuja, Nigeria – Malabo beginning on March 29 will switch to Port Harcourt as the final destination, replacing Malabo. Abuja, Nigeria will still be a ‘technical stop’ destination for the route. The route will continue to be flown daily.
Frankfurt – Accra effective on March 29 will expand to include Malabo as the final destination, in essence becoming Frankfurt – Accra – Malabo. The route will continue to be flown 5x/week.
Frankfurt – Lagos – Port Harcourt will become Frankfurt – Lagos on March 29 and will continue to operate daily.
