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LUFTHANSA Rolling Out Cash Upgrade Options For ALL TRAVEL CLASSES…..Including First!

by Lufthansa Flyer | Jan 5, 2016 | Fare Sale, Featured, Frankfurt, Lufthansa, Munich, On Board Experience, Passenger Experience | 5 comments

Lufthansa announced that it has begun to roll out a new program that allows passengers to upgrade almost any fare class offered by Lufthansa on certain long haul flights. The upgrades are at a fixed price and are subject to availability and capacity control.

What this means is that passengers can pay a fixed price and move up from Economy to Premium Economy or Business, Premium Economy to Business, and Business to First Class.

What is nice about the program is that you will earn miles based on the fare class you upgrade to. HOWEVER, rules regarding refunds, rebooking, baggage, etc. are based on your original fare class, NOT the upgraded class.

For now, this program is limited to the following routes:

Munich-Los Angeles
Munich-Seoul
Frankfurt-Toronto
Frankfurt-Shanghai
Frankfurt-New Delhi

If this pilot program goes well, Lufthansa will expand the program to cover their entire long haul timetable.

If you are traveling on any of these routes, you’ll see the upgrade icon when you pull up your reservation on Lufthansa.com. You’ll be given a choice of upgrading with miles, cash, or a combination of the 2. Please note that you can only upgrade your ticket up to 4 hours prior to the scheduled departure. Inside of 4 hours, you will not be able to upgrade.

As mentioned earlier, this program is available for most fare classes however there are a handful of exceptions. Here is the breakdown of which fare classes are eligible to be upgraded:

Economy to Premium Economy (N Fare): All Economy fares are eligible except for X fares.

Economy to Business Class (Z Fare): All Economy fares are eligible except for K, L, T, X.

From Premium Economy to Business (Z Fare): All Premium Economy fares except for R.

From Business Class to First Class (A Fare): All Business Class fares except for I (Award Fare).

Here is the breakdown of costs depending on the route and fare classes involved for the upgrade (prices below are 1-way):

The Fine Print:

As with any program such as this, there are rules and restrictions that will govern your ability to upgrade. Upgrades are eligible under the following conditions:

The booking must be confirmed and ticketed.

Applies only to Lufthansa operated flights and Lufthansa flight numbers. In other words, codeshare ticketing is not eligible for upgrades.

You can not upgrade on a flight for which you are already checked in.

There are a few other minor rules that you can find here.

H/T to FlyerTalk’s Oliver2002 for putting the news in my inbox this morning…..

LUFTHANSA Adds Second Hungarian Destination

by Lufthansa Flyer | Dec 7, 2015 | Featured, Lufthansa, Munich, Route Announcements | 0 comments

Lufthansa announced today that it will begin service between Munich and Debrecen on April 11.

Flights between Munich and Hungary’s second largest city will operate 3 times a week and will be flown by Bombardier CR aircraft.

Flight info is as follows:

Flight 1686 will depart Munich on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 7:30a, arriving in Debrecen at 9:05a.

Flight 1687 will depart Debrecen on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 9:45a, arriving in Munich at 11:25a.

Flight time is approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Mission Accomplished: I’ve ‘Spotted’ The Entire Lufthansa Mainline Fleet

by Lufthansa Flyer | Nov 29, 2015 | Featured, Lufthansa, Munich, Plane Spotting | 4 comments

On a cold day in Munich, with bits of freezing rain and whipping winds to keep me less than comfortable, I finally accomplished a project that started 3 years ago. Today, when I shot Lufthansa’s A330 ‘D-AIKS’ departing Munich for Charlotte, I had completed personally spotting and photographing the entire Lufthansa mainline fleet which includes all their A319-20-21, A330, A340, 747, 747-8i, and A380 aircraft.

Wheels Up……D-AIKS departs Munich for Charlotte

I’ve been stalking her patterns over the last 2 weeks and with help from a few insiders at Lufthansa, I was able to know her schedule a week in advance. I had been in Europe for other reasons and this simply coincided perfectly.

There was however a scare this morning as to her whereabouts. I had expected ‘KS’ to depart mid-morning for Mumbai but that departure came and went without her…..

Originally, ‘KS’ was slated to fly between Munich and Mumbai, but because of a delayed return from Mumbai from the previous night she could not be turned around in time to return to Mumbai as planned.

No information was available from my regular sources since it was a Sunday but as luck would have it, ‘KS’ pulled on to the taxiway as the last A330 that was leaving from the morning long-haul departure rush. I really did not want to wait around in the rain and wind for the late afternoon departures for Washington, Boston and Newark, nor did I want to keep hunting her indefinitely. I’m glad it worked out in the end!

Over the next few weeks (which will probably turn into months), I’ll try to published the entire fleet in the Lufthansa gallery on my Aero-Shots.com website.

It does appear however, that I need to find a new hobby!