Read the full review (which contains gobs more info):
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I know I know I know. As a San Diego based airline reviewer, making a video about Lufthansa’s A350-900 service from SAN to MUC should’ve happened a long time ago. I sincerely apologize for the delay.
So yeah – this is a full review of Lufthansa flight number 467 (in premium economy). In general, the seat was ok and the food decent. It wasn’t the best long haul premium economy experience I’ve ever had, but it’s hard not to be picky when flying nonstop to Europe from San Diego.
I had seat number 15D, the aircraft registration was D-AIXH, and the total flying time was 10 hours and 31 minutes.
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I love their premium economy seating. Yeah I wish I could do business class, but the premium economy is good. Flew to Munich last year and had no issues with the space or service. The only pain was they were still requiring mask for the whole trip so that kind of sucked. I will be traveling back to Germany next year and I'm already on the lookout for a good deal, fingers crossed.
Do you want them to just teleport the food to the middle seat?
If you have UA gold and your flying any other Star alliance airline (then UA) you get lounge access to the UA club.
As a fellow San Diegan with German origins I enjoyed your review. I used to be a loyal LH customer, but unfortunately they really got worse over the last few years, I'll be using up my last LH miles later this year for this route in their outdated C product, then I have two trips on BA to LHR in their Premium Economy coming up, let's see how they compare to LH. Not a big fan of BA either, but at least we have these two nonstop routes to Europe… I agree, business tickets are outrageously expensive right now, looks like these days Premium Economy tickets cost as much as I sometimes paid for Business before the pandemic.
Remember when Lufthansa won the award of 5 star Airline? Their current state will tell you otherwise.
Did he think he was flying first class ?
when was the date ? and also if you are flying with an airline that has good products on business class such as Singapore or Qatar in that case its worth flying business but if you are flying LH outdated business class no its not worth it
8:00 If I’m on a daytime flight then premium economy is perfectly fine for me
Business class good deals are long gone. Until the general public is allow to fly China Southern again, airlines have no price comparison.
Having flown BA Y+ out of PHX the meal was better than what you got but the seats were the same but not the leg room you had more.
What?, no window seat! How horrible 😂
I have flown Polaris a number of times and recently tried Premium Plus for the first time. It was just like a domestic first experience and was really great. I was also able to sleep and had ample legroom. Will definitely do it again.
Enjoyable as always
I won’t pay $8000 for return business class . PE is just fine for me .
Be grateful you got eggs for breakfast. In business class I was offered tomatoes and cottage cheese last year 🤮
I am glad somebody on YouTube is actually reviewing premium economy/ economy ….I am so tired of these influencers all flying first …I mean us pheasants can’t afford 12k for a seat
Hey Scott! I travelled from BOS to MUC last week on an A340-600 in Premium Economy. United Gold Status gets you Lufthansa Lounge access regardless of cabin. In DFW it's contracted out to the new Chase Lounge so maybe there was a non-Lufthansa option? Anyway, I had the same meal going over and different options coming back (from FRA to BOS in an A340-300). Our breakfast was completely different… fruit/cheese/salami and an oat/musili compote thing that was fine. I was expecting "indifferent" cabin crew but both crews were very friendly and attentive, so I'm hoping the recent complaints over the past few years have changed their attitudes. Anyway…. I'm travelling to FRA in November from JFK so my friend can fly the upper deck of a 747-400. I doubt the cabin will be the new business class set-up, but I'm hoping! We're taking premium economy back to BOS after our trip. I find PE is great coming back on a day trip, but I definitely prefer BC going overnight. Safe travels!!!
i had an amazing deal with Lufthansa DUS-SAN with return for under 500$! My best transatlantic deal ever with the most solid airline ever!
Thanks for the review. I hope there's better times ahead for LH's cabin product. Maybe including a German / Bavarian breakfast option?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weisswurst
Being ahead of time was dissapointing? ??
I've found PE on both Virgin & BA quite good. I heard that JAL PE even gets their own lounge.
are U mate flying first time? if this is true that U hold Star gold card, U get C check in and lounge. Though lounges in US are crap, but at least U can wind down with some booz before the flight.
UA Gold equates to Star Alliance Gold so you would have had all the standard Star Gold benefits on LH (hence the priority boarding). You could have checked in at the First Class counter and accessed the lounge.
lovely flight greetings from the netherlands
im SD to Munich in a few days 🙂
Thank you very much for this video and review. I'm planning a trip to Europe next summer and this was the exact airline and seat class I was considering. Glad to hear that it seems worth the extra money than economy!
Just have been on a flight on a 787. On this plane the outside armrest is like the middle ones and you have a phisical (a wall) separation to the rest of the economy class. That feels so much better. The bathroom is a little bit better too.
Nice Video Mate,
Thanks
Hallo! Ich habe keinen einen fahrkarten
Nice vid flying it soon
I love Airbus but I'm excited about the Lufthansa U.S. —> Europe routes with the new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners. Airbus premium economy these days is sort of old news..
united airlines gold status. as they are star alliance. that would be my guess 😀
Wonderful review, frequent traveler to SAN here. Thank you; wait just to make sure I heard you correctly; did you say that the premium economy seat is mechanical comparable to our domestic FIRST-CLASS seat? By that I mean design, dimensions, pitch, etc? Also Lufthansa says Wi Fi is available on this A359, that was your experience yes? Thank you!
Hoping for Swiss Air to join the c SAN family ❤
Hated your video and all your comentaries and assumptions.
I recently flew round trip Denver to Frankfurt on a Lufthansa 787-9, in Premium Economy. It is very similar to what you are showing here, same seat, food, tv screen, legroom, etc. One thing I liked is we could use the restroom just in front of the Premium economy, there is one on either side next to the galley, so I hardly had to go far to use the facilities. I had a bulkhead window seat in both directions, and the legroom was amazing, didn't have to ask my seat mate to move to get up or return to the seat. Also the entry, exit door is right there at the adjacent galley, so getting on and off is quick and easy. Flight time from Denver was about 9.5 hours each way. I agree that Prem Econ is prob a better choice for most people, it's not sky high expensive as business class is and makes a trans atlantic flight a lot more comfortable. I got my seat for about an extra $400 each way via their "bid for an upgrade" feature. I could have done better, my return seat mate said he put in a $200 low ball bid and got it for Frankfurt to Denver, but you never know, so I bid a bit more. I also thought the Lufthansa crews were very efficient, friendly and did a great job on the service. Thanks for the great video!
Graubrot mit Quark und Marmelade. Filterkaffe und Dosenmilch.
German trains are not on time.
Was flying premium economy with Lufthansa from Frankfurt to Bogota. I think it was a 330. The service was good the cabin separated from economy and our own WC.
I'm a San Diegan as well and I took this flight a couple of times, last time on June 2022. Your review is quite accurate, based on my experience however, these are my comments:
1) Lufthansa punctuality? Since when? I always lost my connections when flying with Lufthansa and it never happened with other airlines.
2) I'm a United frequent flyer and adding Lufthansa miles to my United account has been always a pain in the butt! 😞
3) Last year I got an upgrade deal to business for only $ 700 more; they offered it to me during the check-in, 24 hrs prior my flight… but to be honest, Lufthansa business seats are not so great… certainly far away from the Polaris class quality!
4) At the end of the day, I would still try to book a premium economy seat when traveling to Frankfurt… but I do not agree with you when you compare these seats to the domestic first class seats… they are much less comfortable. 😞🙂
Having said that, I agree with you that we need more direct flights from San Diego to Europe. 🙂
LH SAN-MUC was canceled LH can simply reroute you to EWR via Star Alliance Partner UA SAN-EWR where you then rejoin the LH A350-900 this time from EWR as LH413 EWR-MUC. One of the LH A359s D-AIVB Hamburg used to be part of the PR A359 fleet which is RP-C3504 or RP-C3507 which usually flies to LAX and SFO from MNL with B777-3F6/ER. Loses out to competitors B777-312/ER SQ B777-367/ER CX B777-381/ER NH B777-346/ER JL B777-35E/ER BR and lastly B777-3B5/ER KE. In 2027 if UA gets their A359s you should do SAN-EWR UA domestic and then EWR-MUC UA A359 if in service return MUC-EWR LH412 and UA domestic EWR-SAN.
7:30…Correct me if I am wrong, but your meal looks like pounded yam and beef stew with carrot and greens, which is nice west african meal. But why serve it on Lufthansa airlines? Strange, very strange indeed 🤔.
I've flown A350-900 on Singapore Airlines from LAX to SIN yesterday. So, is this the only aircraft type to fly A350 to San Diego?!
Flying Lufthansa A350 Premium Eco next spring, kinda hopeful I get one with the new seats but deffinetly dont expect it. Good to know tho that the seat is much more comfy!
LOL! Dude its Primium ECONOMY not BUSINESS. Having expectations for a extra check-in or lounge access is really strange. You pay for better seats and slightly better service that's it.