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Lufthansa First Class ORD-FRA: Weekend Jaunt to Europe, Part II - Andy's Travel Blog
Recommended listening for this post: I’m Not Alright, by Shinedown (for everyone who tells me I’m nuts for taking weekend trips to Europe) Lufthansa currently has quite a few variants of First Class seating, “hard product” is the term. Earlier this year I flew their oldest product (it closely resembles Rimowa luggage) on an A330. It was a perfectly good experience, but it didn’t really have that punch/pizzazz/whatever that makes for really good blog posts. I had to do better, I told myself. Airline miles and hotel points are one of the most volatile currencies in the history of the world, well, maybe second place to Bitcoin I guess. Miles can be devalued with a stroke of the pen and a PR email. I’ve known this for a while, and have seen the various devaluations over the years. I really lucked out with this one, as I used 67,500 United miles (that I transferred over from Chase Ultimate Rewards instantaneously) to book the trip, and upon my return found out that starting next February, that booking will cost almost twice as much (Gary from View from the Wing has a great article explaining the United devaluation). So I lucked out booking the trip when I did. My day started fairly early, as I got to DFW really early to experience the fantastic new American Express Centurion Lounge. I spent most of my time there and about 45 minutes before boarding I took DFW’s Skylink train to Terminal E to catch... read more
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