Flying Lufthansa

Lufthansa is Deutschland's airline, the number one. Always getting laughed at by British Airways and Ryanair and sometimes Easyjet for its expensive flights, I have only traveled with them once, and that was from London City airport to Hamburg.

And I tell you...

The flight was a good price when I booked it in advanced. The flights were on time! The free food which consists of a sandwich, chocolate bar and a bottle of water is ok and kept hunger at bay, but as there wern't many passengers on board the flights, I was offered two lots of food BOTH ways! Happy days!

The staff gave good service, and annoucements were very cleared on the tannoy.

Overall, a pleasent experience.

When I was stationed in Germany, I flew out of Frankfurt on Lufthansa. It was the first airline I had flown on that wasn't an American-based carrier. I was thoroughly impressed with their service. Of course, this was in the mid-80's, so I have no idea how they are today.

My son was only four months old when I flew on Lufthansa. The attendants brought formula in a bottle for my baby (wow, I didn't have to mix anything). They also gave him a stuffed teddy bear. I was surprised when they also took and disposed of his soiled diaper...US air carriers refused to do this, saying it was a health policy. That meant you were stuck with a dirty diaper until you disembarked the plane (gross).

Food: Nice, grainy bread, fresh fruit, eggs (that didn't taste powdery)...it was very good compared to what I was used to on a plane at that time.

Right before we landed, they brought out eucalyptus-scented hot towels so we could refresh ourselves.

It was a good experience for me.

For the years I lived in Germany, Lufthansa was my airline of choice after Sabena Airlines. The service on this career quite simply shown: I'm using past tense because it has been a little of seven years since I flew with this carrier. My last flight was from Munich to Copenhagen, the service quite simply shone. I met the most pleasant air hostess in my life and through the years I have measured hostess service by the standards set many years by the hostesses on Lufthansas service to Copenhagen.

Being a service oriented person, I highly recommend Lufthansa if you have a choice. It is not the cheapest of airlines (atleast not as far as I can recall, but the servce and comfort is were worth the price).
It was one of the cleanest planes I had flown in years.