Lufthansa Cityline

Advantages: Excellent product for intercontinental travel, extremely improved punctuality, good meals on longhaul flights
Disadvantages: Extremely poor meals on shorthaul flights, limited inflight entertainment (except longhaul Business & First)

...destinations in Europe by itself (largest European network of any airline), and another 200 in co-operation with its European Star Alliance partners British Midland, SAS and Austrian Airlines, and its Team Lufthansa franchises. The continental fleet consists of Airbus 319/320/321 single aisle, Airbus 300/310 widebody and Boeing 737-300/500 aircraft. A range of shorthaul / low density flights are operated by Lufthansa CityLine with BAE/AVRO Jets and Canadair Regional Jets, Team Lufthansa flights can be on Turboprops. The seat pitch is a comfortable 87cm/35inch (same as Swissair, 3 inch more than BA). The seats are real leather and quite comfortable. Seats are configured 3 - 3 on single aisle planes and 2 - 4 - 2 on widebodies. On non-domestic flights, business class seats are converted to provide more space in 2 - 3 and 2 - 3 - 2 configurations... Read review

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Advantages: they got me to england...
Disadvantages: they got me 8 hours late to england... flight attendants are just brutal if you dont speak german...

...ok... as most of you know by now... I am an American living in the UK... but... how I got here is a horror story in itself... first off... let me say that when I came to England... flying Lufthansa had been only my third flight ever... (the previous two being the same day from Toledo, Ohio to Chicago, Illinois... then Chicago to Newark, New Jersey...) so I was relatively inexperienced when it came to flying... I was expecting a lot of baggage checks and so forth... I was prepared for that... but ... I wasn't prepared for waiting ages to get on a Lufthansa flight... Let's start off with a bit of history of the actual company before I degrade it further... ***HISTORY*** According to the Lufthansa website... the company was renamed in 1933 after "Deutsche Luft Hansa Aktiengesellschaft"... the original name for the airline... Read review

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Advantages: Most of staff are helpful and kind
Disadvantages: Bad Reputation, One member of staff can let them all down

...Back in October my boyfriend and I decided we'd go to New York to celebrate being together for three years. After MUCH trawling round travel agents and more hours than I care to remember searching the internet, I found the best available deal. Three nights in 3 star accommodation, and flights, for just £300 each. BARGAIN. (www.lastminute.com) I checked with other online travel agents and the exact same package was £200 more expensive, and the price grew every week until we actually went, so we really did get a fantastic deal. The catch was that we had to fly via Frankfurt. This wasnt such a problem on the way to NY as the transfer times meant we only had to wait half an hour between flights, but coming back we were stuck in Frankfurt airport for 5 hours in the middle of the night. Lufthansa is the largest carrier in Europe... Read review

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