Originally Posted by
Rambuster
The summary suggests that LH-Group airlines including BD currently have no payment surcharge:
Credit card costs (disagio) are borne
entirely by Lufthansa Group airlines
(page 2). As anybody who has bought tickets from BD online knows, we have had payment surcharges for years, including with BD's own credit cards.
Page 1, trying to justify the word 'optional' (which they fail completely to do) includes a list of the presumed advantages to the passenger of paying by credit card. One such is said to be:
Which LH/LX/BD/etc lounges can I use purely on the basis of having paid for my ticket by credit card?