Lufthansa Business Class

Yes, many times. The Business Class cabin on a lot of their planes is the terrible 2-2-2 setup where you may have to crawl over someone. Check that seating chart and do your resarch. They also have a "First" class which is better and more like United Polaris.

The service is better, flight attendants more attractive, and better booze selection. The food is very hit or miss.

I've been in their Biz on the 747-800 and the A380. I always book aisles, but considering most of my travel was in coach, it was fine. The gay flight attendants were pretty attentive when I wasn't with my ex wife. Food was hit or miss as mentioned, but since I was spoiled on Turkish food, everything on any airline was meh.

LH 1st class seemed to only differ in that there was a rose at each seat, and I think it was 1-1 or 1-1-1 instead of 2-2-2. Didn't seem all that different.

It's a solid choice, and LH is my go to if I'm flying to most of Europe. TK is the choice for SE Europe and the ME. Especially if you are sticking to *A, you don't have a lot of attractive options. TAP sounds more middling than LH, although I've never flown it. Air Canada is a giant F-NO. The Toronto lounge feels like a third world country, and they had the oldest equipment I'd been on as an adult, and the absolute surliest FAs I've encountered on any airline. One flight to Rome and I never flew that garbage again.

The best thing about LH business class is access to their lounges. The food was amazing, and free top shelf bar that has no bartender. You walk up and make your own drinks. First time I experienced it I was blown away. Had a blast in there for several hours.

Lufthansa isn't even in the top half of Business Class products across the Atlantic. Unless you can get a flight on one of the 787s.

That may be the case, but there are plenty of good options on other carriers. I'd rather fly DL through ATL (or even better, JFK) and then go with Air France/KLM across the pond.

Also, couldn't help but laugh at the poster who was raving about the quality of the LH lounges stateside.

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Also, couldn't help but laugh at the poster who was raving about the quality of the LH lounges stateside.

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I flew LH business on my way to Oktoberfest last month, and the LH lounge at IAD was rough. I mean rough. In their defense, it was the last day before they were to begin renovations. I anticipate it will be nicer in about a year when they finish, but even before last month, it was in rough shape and not competitive with the other lounges in Dulles.

And to pile on, if you're flying solo, LH A380 with the 2-2-2 layout is not competitive. Get a middle seat. Flying with your spouce, it's not so bad, but still not competitive.

I'm heading to London tomorrow and unfortunately British Airways just did a plane swap from the new A350s to the older 787-9, so we just went from a 2-1-2 with doors to the dreaded 2-3-2 layout, but even on this plane, unless you're in the middle three seats, you don't have to worry about climbing over anyone.

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gay flight attendants

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Every single time.

They got a mafia now that controls first and business class across all carriers.

I'm not seeing direct MSY to MUC flights on MSY's page, nor on Lufthansa. What day are you flying out? I'm just looking at random dates and can't see it.

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I thought BA had finished the Club Suite retrofits for all of its 787s

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So did I. But my seat map says something different

Surprisingly, the best beef I've ever had on a plane was on a BA flight between London and Houston a few years back.