LH864
FRA-OSL
Duration: 2:00 (1:36)
A319-100 (swapped from A320): D-AILM
C class
Seats
2A & 2C assigned in BKK, but changed to 1A & 1C after boarding was completed. 3 pax / 16 seats (Seat map on Seatguru is a bit off)
After a nice time in the SEN lounge we headed for our gate were boarding was also finished. The went in almost last, so there was no queue. Still LH usually has a priority queue for C pax or *G.
In anycase we discovered through the bridge, that our plane was remotely parked and that we would be riding a bus to the plane... No limousine for us, sadly
The A319 cabin is always as nice. LH colours are a bit dark but there is something classy about it.
Our A319 after arrival in OSL
Business class cabin
Seating view on the ground
Seating view in the air. Look SK, LH is using the curtain... Watch and learn!
As it was rather cold that day, deicing took freaking forever and they did not even spray the aircrafts body, only wings and tale. They had 2 machines and used more than 20 minutes. As a comparison complete deicing of a 737 in OSL takes usually between 5 and 10 minutes. On this point SK rocks.
Once in the air, dinner was served. It was a simple Feta cheese salad. Not bad at all but I have seen better from LH before, both when it comes to packaging and inspiration. Still, better than the greasy meaty sausage balls served in M.
Feta cheese salad
The crew on that flight was nice. They were smiling and were service minded.
In the end we landed, 5min late after taking so long for Deicing in FRA. Still I'm glad they did it properly rather than too quickly.
Outside temperature that night was -22 Celcius. Since we had just come from Fiji a few days before where we had an average of +35 Celcius, the variation was a whopping 57 degrees Celcius!!!
As LH is usually well treated by SAS Ground handling in OSL we were expecting our luggages to come out first. And indeed two of them did. Sadly the 3rd one came in the middle of the pack.
Conclusion
It was an uneventful but still good flight by LH. The Airbus experience intra europe is definitely better than the 737 one, and LH has decent products both hard and soft.