Lufthansa Airlines

Lufthansa

Lufthansa Airlines * Chicago, Illinois to Dusseldorf, Germany * March 27/28th, 2009 *
This was my first trip with Lufthansa, as I’m usually a British Airways customer. I’m quite pleased with my Lufthansa experience – not only was the staff professional and polite, helpful, and courteous – the flight was safe, hospitable, and comfortable. Sleeping in economy is a nightmare on any airline, but they made it as comfortable as they could. Unlike what the American domestic flights have taken into practice of charging for alcoholic beverages, food, and snacks … Lufthansa on their international flights give you quite a few free alcoholic beverages to take the edge out of the journey, free dinner and breakfast, and beverages. Free movies that you can select and manage from the inset film screens. In addition, they didn’t lose my luggage, unlike my experience with previous airlines like British Airways where my luggage was always lost when I set down in Germany. Thank you Lufthansa!
Deutsche Lufthansa AG is one of the largest airlines in Europe in terms of overall passengers carried, and the flag carrier of Germany. The name of the company is derived from Luft (the German word for “air”), and Hansa (after Hanseatic League, the powerful medieval trading group). The airline is the world’s fifth largest airline in terms of overall passengers carried, operating services to 209 destinations in 81 countries. Together with its partners Lufthansa services around 410 destinations. It has the third-largest passenger airline fleet in the world, when combined with Lufthansa CityLine, Air Dolomiti, Eurowings, Germanwings, Augsburg Airways, Contact Air, and SWISS, operating 531 aircraft. Lufthansa corporate headquarters is in Cologne, with its main base and primary traffic hub at Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt am Main with a second hub at Munich Airport. Lufthansa is a founding member of Star Alliance, the world’s largest airline alliance. Star Alliance was formed in 1997 together with Thai Airways, United Airlines, Air Canada and Scandinavian Airlines System. The Lufthansa Group operates more than 500 aircraft and employs worldwide 105,261 people of 146 nationalities (31 December 2007). In 2008, 70.5 million passengers flew with Lufthansa (missing: Germanwings, BMI, AUA, Brussels Airlines). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa. Rating: 5 stars out of 5.