Originally Posted by
tomekp
I would be very careful declaring "will never fly LH again".
How do you know you will be able to avoid LH in the future ?
Would your current and future employer(s) accept not flying LH because of your bad past flying experience ? (especially if price will be much more attractive at LH - sometimes happens)
What if your homeairport became dominated by LH ? (i.e. LH takeovers your homeairport main ariline or you move to place like MUC)
What if LH will be your only choice to get to important event in case of travel irregularities ?
... again... such statements are not serious. I would believe in statements "will try to avoid LH in the future" or so... but not "will enver fly LH again".
Take it easy. Most of the people that had declared not to fly certain airline boarded they planes afterwards.
I am (and will remain) my only employer :-)
A lot of things can happen and if LH would be my ONLY choice, I would probably use them - but only if I had NO other choice. I definitely won't fly with them on my own choice - actually, my next overseas flight is on BA. I haven't flown them for years as I was sticking to *A. I will still fly on US on domestic flights - despite their metal being not as nice as some of the other US carriers, and I am sick of the same black pepper chips and cranberry-nuts-mix they give you on First, I am getting top notch SERVICE from them as a Chairman - close to 100% first class upgrades (37 out of 38 domestic flights), always helpful phone reps, even special requests (when I have them) accommodated as possible, etc. I think there is a world of difference in how US and German airlines think about service. What LH Ground does is the "irreducible minimum" - if they did anything less for their passengers, their planes wouldn't fly. There is no better way to fly? I am so happy that there are plenty of choices that are a hell of a lot better.
Originally Posted by
olm022
May I suggest that moderators please close this thread. It does not bring any useful information for a (prospective) traveler, nor does it have any posts that would require assistance/help/advise from other posters.
On a side note, perhaps it would be a good idea to open a separate thread where people who do not like LH could hang out and b*tch about how LH suck and how it singled out them and mistreated and so on, and leave the rest who trust/enjoy LH alone.
Just because you don't like it, we can still talk about it, can't we? Not like anyone FORCED you to REPEATEDLY visit this thread... if you don't want to hear it, feel free to never visit this thread again - problem solved!
Originally Posted by
sentom
what do you have to hide!? if you would really be interested in what happened you could just PM it to him. as in a lot of cases with new registered members, who just post rants about whatever, some things just don't add up...
its not rocket science to figure out that both your and the OPs story could literally happen on any airline. stating you will never ever set foot on a LH plane again after
one incident is not very smart. saying that LH will never get a dime from you if you fly *A and lot of TATL is almost impossible...
You are mixing up my posting an nycdude88's. I said I would never fly LH again and I DID since then switch over to OW, so I am not stuck with *A and LH any more.
Originally Posted by
mr.pliner
... but then again, why not simply remove your computer and all of it's related hardware and put it even in the plastic bag? You ARE allowed to have your laptop as a separate bag... and then again, you could have slapped the camera on your neck, because you ARE allowed to carry a camera as an additional item.
No, not on Lufthansa. You can have a carry-on OR a laptop bag OR a camera. ONLY ONE PIECE. Hard to believe, but it's true.
Originally Posted by
BAAZ
LH isn't really that bad - try flying Ryanair! With Ryanair you have an allowance of one carryon. Period. Including anything, i.e. cameras, handbags, purses etc must be placed inside the one carryon. And anything you buy in the airport airside. (If they're feeling particularly generous they might allow you to take a book with you in addition to your carryon.) And it's then limited to I think 10kg. I've been asked to repack a 10.5kg bag because it was 500g (=a pound) overweight.
How is LH better than that - with their allowance of only one piece and 8kg max?