LUFTHANSA has announced that it will add their new Premium Economy cabin to 6 new destinations beginning with the Winter 2015/16 timetable.
Beginning on December 16, 2015 the following routes will feature Premium Economy aboard the A340-300 aircraft that will will fly to these destinations:
Frankfurt – Dallas
Frankfurt – Luanda
Frankfurt – Nanjing
Frankfurt – Osaka
Frankfurt – Seattle
Frankfurt – Shenyang – Qingdao
In the spirit of Lufthansa’s #InspiredBy campaign, the airline has put together a contest that awards the winner a trip to Leipzig, Germany (Click here to be taken to the Contest’s homepage).
The Prize Package includes 2 Economy Class tickets on Lufthansa from one of their USA gateways, 4 nights accommodation at the Hotel Furstenhof Leipzig and a variety of Museum, Sightseeing and Dining excursions.
The contest is ‘Pinterest’ based and requires a few steps to be taken in order to be eligible.
To start with, you’ll need to ‘Pin’ one of the images that Lufthansa has provided on the contest’s entry page onto your own Pinterest page:
There are several more images, but ‘screen capture’ couldn’t fit all of them in!
The rules also say that if you have your own photo that is in the spirit of the contest, you can post it and add the hashtag of #InspiredBy and #JoinGermanTradition or #Germany25Reunified by itself. It may be easier to just pin one of their suggested images!
The contest runs through December 30, 2014 and is only available to legal residents of the USA. For more of the fine print, please refer to the terms/conditions.
We all know that traveling for the Holidays can bring with it a certain level of stress. Weather, unruly children (aka unions) and large crowds all focused on getting to their destinations can quickly take the spirit out of the Holidays.
To help get Holiday travel off to a positive start, Lufthansa’s team in Frankfurt has come up with a novel way to greet passengers that will be traveling during the next 2 weeks.
Specifically, LH has ‘rebuilt’ one of the departure gates in the ‘A-Plus’ terminal and turned it into quite a Christmas scene. Passengers departing from Gate Z62 /64 will be welcomed with Christmas Carols instead of boarding announcements. Christmas Trees and Red Carpets will cover the area around the gates and bring with them an obvious Holiday feel.
Lufthansa’s Holiday Spirit is quite obvious…….
For those of you not familiar with the A-Plus terminal in Frankfurt, the Z gates are non-Schengen gates for most Lufthansa’s international long-haul departures. Z62/64 is located near the end of the A-Plus terminal but should be worth the walk to see it dressed up for the Holidays!
The ‘Christmas Gate’ will be in place between now and December 29.
LUFTHANSA has announced 3 new seasonal destinations for their 2015/16 timetable. Beginning in December 2015, LH will add Cancun, Mexico, Mauritius and the Maldives to its network. The routes will each be flown 2 times a week from Frankfurt and are part of LH’s ‘JUMP’ concept that targets holiday and tourist destinations. A few weeks ago Lufthansa announced Tampa Bay, Florida as a new destination also under the ‘JUMP’ concept.
Specifically, the routes will be operate between December 8, 2015 and April 11, 2016 and will all be flown by 3-Class A340-300 aircraft. This means that passengers will have the choice of Lufthansa’s Business , Premium Economy or Economy class seats. As far as Business Class is concerned, passengers will have the new Business Class available on these flights.
Here are the specifics for each of the new routes:
FRANKFURT – CANCUN:
Flights will operate on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning December 8, 2015 through April 9, 2016. LH514 will depart Frankfurt at 2:35p local time and arrive in Cancun at 8:05p local time. The return flight will operate as LH515 departing Cancun at 9:35p local time and arrive in Frankfurt at 2:50p the following day. Flight times are scheduled to be approximately 12 hours 30 minutes.
FRANKFURT – MAURITIUS:
Flights will operate on Thursdays and Sundays between December 10, 2015 and April 11, 2016. LH708 will depart Frankfurt at 4:45p and arrive in Mauritius at 7:05a the following morning. The return flight will operate as LH709 departing Maruitius at 8:35a and arrive in Frankfurt at 5:35p. Flight times are scheduled to be approximately 11 hours 20 minutes.
FRANKFURT – MALE:
Flights will operate on Wednesdays and Saturdays between December 9, 2015 and April 10, 2016. LH704 will depart Frankfurt at 7:50p and arrive in Male at 9:30a the following morning. The return flight will operate as LH705 departing Male at 11:00a and arrive in Frankfurt at 5:40p. Flight times are scheduled to be approximately 9 hours 40 minutes.
Booking is now available on Lufthansa.com.
To further enhance an already festive season, LUFTHANSA will welcome children aboard their flights with a special LEGO kit of a Lufthansa A380. The kit will be available beginning tomorrow and will be offered through Christmas on flights operating within Europe as well as on intercontinental routes.
The kit was specially developed for Lufthansa by LEGO. The kits will not be available anywhere else so if you are traveling on LH at some point during this great offer, make sure to get your kit. Lufthansa has said nothing about how old you have to be in order to get this ‘collectible’ 🙂 .
The Lufthansa / LEGO A380.
