Check-in
After spending a day in a different country everyday, it's time now to stop that craziness and spend couple days in Japan. We took the subway to the main railroad station early in the morning, and transferred to the airport bus 615 again to go to the airport. Check-in for the business class was fast and efficient. Our routing is Helsinki to Frankfurt to Nagoya on Lufthansa, and then to Sapporo on ANA. However, we were told that we could only check our luggage through Nagoya, and this certainly worried us a lot since we only had an hour and 25 minutes to transit in Nagoya.
Helsinki airport check-in
Helsinki airport
SAS Lounge in Helsinki
We then went to the SAS lounge, and similar to Stockholm and Copenhagen lounge, there were plenty of Macs, but not much variety in the food offerings. And there's also free wifi, something we know we are going to miss once we arrive in Frankfurt.
SAS lounge
Bananas
Breakfast
Macs
Flight
After taking couple of intra Scandinavia flights on SAS, we were glad to be on a Lufthansa flight. While the seats are the same as Economy class, the middle seat is blocked in Business class, and the food was also much better. Hot breakfast was served, and we had a choice of eggs and ham, or the apple crepe.
LH 3107 Helsinki (HEL) 9:25am Frankfurt (FRA) 10:55am
Aircraft: Airbus A320
Distance: 960 miles
Duration : 2 hour 30 min
Class: Business
A320
Apple crepe
Eggs
The weather was perfect in Frankfurt, and upon landing, one couple in the first class asked about transferring service to another Lufthansa First class flight to the US. The flight attendant looked out of the plane, and saw a Porsche waiting for them already. But for the rest of us, we had to board the bus to the terminal.
Frankfurt
Porsche
Bus to terminal
Frankfurt Senator Lounge
We spent a lot of time in the Senator lounge, as our layover was over 3 hours. The food offering is far superior than that of the SAS lounges, we had asparagus soup, pasta, salad, sausages and potatoes, strawberry, ... It's a wonder how we managed to keep stuffing ourselves. We will need another bike tour to burn off the calories ! We also took advantage of the shower facility before hopping onto the long flight to Nagoya.
Bar
Pasta bar
Too much food !
Shower