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Court Threatens Jail Time and Fines for Publicizing Airline Mistake Fares

by Gary Leff

plane outside airport window
May 03 2018

Of course we all love it when mistake fares happen and they’re honored and we get to travel the world at insanely cheap prices, especially in business or first class.

For some readers booking a $28 ticket to Paris presents a moral challenge: should you take advantage of something you know is a mistake? My own view is that I’m happy to book it, airlines will choose to honor it or they won’t, but if they’re going to fly people to Paris for $28 I’d like to be one of those people.

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Hurry: Book Lufthansa First Class Awards West Coast – Europe with Partner Miles

by Gary Leff

lufthands headquarters
Apr 25 2018

On Sunday I wrote that Lufthansa first class awards had become bookable using partner miles. That’s significant because normally Lufthansa only makes first class award space available in advance to its own Miles & More members. Star Alliance partner frequent flyer programs can generally only book that space within 2 weeks of departure.

Now this has spread to San Francisco – Munich.

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British Airways Looks to Reduce First Class Seats (and Not Improve Them)

by Gary Leff

airline cabin
Apr 25 2018

British Airways doesn’t have a competitive business class product. On their Boeing 777s seating is eight across, middle seats are especially intimate and passengers in the window climb over the feet of their seat opponents.

BA’s CEO suggests any new business class seat would need to take up more room, and that room would come at the expense of first class.

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Lufthansa First Class Bookable in Advance Right Now

by Gary Leff

lufthands headquarters
Apr 22 2018

Normally Lufthansa only makes first class award space available much in advance to its own Miles & More members. Star Alliance partner frequent flyer programs can only book that space within 2 weeks of departure.

Right now though some frequent flyer programs have access to Lufthansa first class space through the entire calendar.

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Lufthansa Cancels Passenger’s Ticket After Misconnection and 5 Hour Delay

by Gary Leff

lufthansa
Mar 19 2018

A reader writes that they were flying Lufthansa business class from Nuremberg to Rome via Frankfurt using United miles. Their flight out of Nuremberg was delayed due to weather and they were rebooked onto a later flight.

They say they went to board “30 minutes prior to” the new delayed departure time but their seat was “given away, me and a half dozen people.”

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