Last weekend I posted about a change to an award ticket in order to try and obtain a seat in LH First Class from Shanghai to Frankfurt in early March. After sorting it all out, but making a booking via Seoul and Munich to London, I had a look over the weekend at…
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A lesson learned – United award ticket changes
On my mammoth 40,000 mile trip which starts next week, I am coming home from Shaghai to London on a United Award ticket. I’ve held this since November, but the routing was not the best. I was flying Shanghai to Seoul, then Asiana to Frankfurt and Lufthansa to London. As many readers know Lufthansa only…
Some unusual award options – Lufthansa – Tools, Giftcards and Summer Houses
Spured on by my review of unusual Air France and KLM awards, I wanted to bring you some interesting awards from another European airline – Lufthansa. For several years, LH has had a catalogue of consumer goods in the seat back pocket. With an emphasis on travel originally, the catalogue now has lots of desirable…
LH discounted award tickets (Business & Economy) – Germany, USA, Japan/Korea until 16 March
Lufthansa have reduced the cost of some of their Miles&More award tickets to destinations in Germany from the UK. Also in the sale are flights to several USA destination – Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas and Philadelphia. Business Class tickets to German destinations are 20,000 M&M points. Flights to the USA are 55,000 in Business. Also,…
How much is LH Senator worth? EUR 2000 say LH
I recently dropped from LH Senator to Frequent Flyer status. LH wrote, enclosing my new card and offering a buy-off offer to get back to Senator. EUR 2000 is too much for my wallet I am afraid.
Lufthansa Business Class sale ex-UK, on sale until 2 Jan 13
Lufthansa’s web site has details of a ex-UK sale: Example from London: Conditions are as follows: Purchase by: 02.01.2013 Departure period: 23.03.2013-15.08.2013 Return period: 29.03.2013-15.11.2013 Not valid: 15.04.2013-30.06.2013 Minimum stay: 6 days. Maximum stay: 3 months. Subject to availability. Books in to ‘P’ class which earns only 100% in Miles&More, but 150% EQM’s with…
Lufthansa One Day Business/First Sale from London
A short time to book but a long time to travel! Conditions for this offer Purchase by: 14.11.2012 Departure period: 20.12.2012-05.04.2013 Return period: 23.12.2012-04.07.2013 Minimum stay : 3 days. Maximum stay : 3 months. Fares below: Abu Dhabi from £1,199* Bengaluru – Bangalore from £1,449* Beijing from£1,599* Bogotá from £1,769* Mumbai/Bombay from £1,449* Buenos Aires …
Lufthansa publishes Christmas and New Year promotional fares from UK
Lufthansa has just published it’s cheap Business Class fares for Christmas and New Year from the UK. You only have a week to buy them. Other conditions are: Purchase by: 28.09.2012 Departure period: 22.12.2012-06.01.2013 Return period: 25.12.2012-10.01.2013 Advance Purchase Period: 21 days Minimum stay: 3 days. Maximum stay: Travel must be completed by 10.01.2013. On…
Anatomy of a Cancellation
About two weeks I was booked from Copenhagen to Frankfurt, on the LH A380 on to San Francisco and finally on to Honolulu with United. The ticket was the return of a trip from HNL with United two weeks before. Of course my travel day happened to occur on the same day as LH’s cabin…
If Lufthansa cancels your flight – DON’T call the number in the text message
Lufthansa is having a strike by its flight attendants and tomorrow, 7 September will be the most disrupted day. It is also the day that I was supposed to fly from Copenhagen, via Frankfurt to San Francisco and Honolulu. The FRA-SFO was on an A380 which I was have never taken on a long flight and so wanted to check out. Knowing that there have been problems for a week or so, I added my mobile number to my LH booking. Just before bed I checked the LH web site and my flight wasn’t on the list of cancellations. In fact, at that point the list was suspiciously short. So when an hour later I got this text I was not suprised: So thinking the number supplied might be a special number for cancellations I had my phone dial the number. “This is neither a landline nor mobile number and you will be charged at £3.50 per minute” . So US$5 per…
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