Originally Posted by
pantanal
You are right. The first class (premiere) lounge in 2e is supposedly to be very good. It was modeled after the Lufthansa First Class Terminal. I have used the business class and not the First class one in CDG so may not be a fair comparison
I know they (AF) provide limo drop off.
LH first Terminal, they pick you up from the plane in a mercedes or a Porsche and take you there are well. On short connections they have walked me through German Immigrations and customs straight from the plane bypassing everyone.
FRA has a first class lounge and a First Class Terminal. I was referring to the First Class Terminal which is a stand alone building separate from the terminal with its own access. AF Premiere Lounge is part of the terminal and not a stand alone facility like the Lufthansa First Terminal
I was indeed refering to comparisons (on other threads in this forum) between AF's F lounge in terminal 2E and LH's F terminal at FRA. I'm sure that having a fully dedicated terminal is great, and the drop off by LH in luxury cars is apparently more impressive than with AF in less luxurious ones. However, other have reported that the quality of the food and drinks in the AF F lounge is quite a bit superior to the LH's FCT, that massages are some of the best around, and people have also mentioned exclusive perks such as fast track immigration in some US airports which I don't believe any other airline F (and certainly not LH) provides at this stage. That's why I reacted with a bit of surprised when you mentioned that AF had nothing in the same league as LH's FCT (but if indeed you were referring to the specific fact that it is a separate terminal, it is of course quite unique to LH indeed).
And I agree with others that I am most grateful for blocking skype on AF's wifi. Many a times, people shouting at their laptop when I was trying to get a minimum of peace and quiet after a long and tiresome day or flight has made me feel on the verge of being homicidal. Even though I know I keep repeating the same things over and again, I also still think that with the increase of large lounges now for most airlines in their hubs, quiet zones should become a staple offer. I just don't understand why I am to be subjected to loud phone conversations that are uninteresting and intrusive to me while anyone would presumably (and understandably) start shouting and screaming if I played a Beethoven's sonata at a quarter of the volume on my laptop. I don't want to deny people the right to use phones (well, actually, I would really like to but I know it won't happen!
) but I don't think it is unreasonable for me in an increasingly mobile-phone-invaded planet to ask for areas where passengers who like me want some relative silence and myself could enjoy exactly that.