To mark The Muppet’s latest movie, MUPPETS Most Wanted, Lufthansa is offering a wide variety of games, contests and interactive content that can be enjoyed by everyone.
Though the highlight of the promotion that involves winning a trip for 4 to Los Angelesis limited to those residing in Germany there are some other parts to the promotion that are geared for children and available everywhere.
By visiting Lufthansa’s dedicated Muppet website, you can download apps, wallpaper and activities geared for children and their smartphones. Yes, it will work for adults and their phones as well. Additionally there is quite a bit of interactive content on the website that can be enjoyed including interactive games, movie trailers and even interviews with some of the ‘Stars’ of the movie.
Here are a couple of examples of the content you’ll find. First, it’s Miss Piggy’s version of cabin crew announcements and below that is an interview of a Lufthansa flight attendant conducted by Kermit and Miss Piggy.
To celebrate the Hamburg Port Festival this May, a group of ‘travel enthusiasts’ will gather from around the world for 2 days to take part in the 825th edition of the Festival. For those of you unfamiliar with the festival, it is during the weekend of May 9-11 and is full of events around the city including the opening and closing fleet parades that take place on the river, firework shows, concerts, etc.
To get things started, the Parade of Ships will open the Festival at 4p on Friday at 4:00p where visitors can take in a wide variety of ships, from ancient tall ships to modern day cruise liners. During this opening parade, Lufthansa’s Junkers Ju52 will do a flyer-over of the procession as the event gets underway. I’ll be on that flight along with the winner of the Jason Dahl Scholarship fundraiser that was held earlier this year.
Lufthansa’s Junkers Ju52 flies over the River Elbe during the Hamburg Port Festival
The ‘DO’ will have a decidedly aviation-based theme (would you expect anything different?) and includes private tours of Airbus’ facility in Finkenwerder, an evening dinner cruise on the River Elbe complete with Fireworks Show and an exclusive tour of Lufthansa Technik.
Here is the itinerary for the weekend……
Saturday, May 10:
11:00a – 1:00p: Airbus Tour in Finkenwerder where we will see the A320 assembly line as well as the A380 finish line.
7:00p – 11:30p: Enjoy dinner aboard a sailing yacht as we make our way down the River Elbe and take in the fireworks show during the evening.
Sunday, May 11:
10:00a – 1:00p: We will be given an exclusive ‘off the menu’ tour of Lufthansa’s Technik Facility. This is Lufthansa’s largest maintenance hub and we’ll have access to the VIP Hangar, overhaul shops and main hangar.
Lufthansa’s Technik facilities in Hamurg
The ‘DO’ is built on an a-la-carte basis, attendees can choose and pay for which events they wish to attend. As of now there are still a few openings left for each of the events but I expect that we’ll reach full capacity in the next week or so.
To learn more about the events including pricing and sign up information, please visit the dedicated thread on FlyerTalk. You can also email me or leave a comment if you have any questions or need more info.
A big H/T to FlyerTalk’s Oliver2002 for putting together this event!
Last night you could have booked travel to most of Europe from non-major US gateways for $1500 or less in some cases. The fares were basically bought up within 6-8 hours after being released but it now looks as though a limited number of opportunities has re-emerged.
As of an hour ago or so, I noticed that Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian, Brussels, Air Canada and United are once again offering business fares that are equal to or below economy fare tickets. This time though the options are fewer and further between and primarily focus on most of Italy and France. There are however a few pockets available to London and Amsterdam.
The key to finding this unadvertised special is to book travel from non-hub cities in the USA. In other words, you won’t find these fares as easily from places like NYC or ORD. Its not to say that you won’t but the odds are not with you.
