Contrary to some stories you may have heard, there is plenty of food to be had in LH lounges - even if they are just the Business ones - though suffice to say, not a lot of it is hot food. There's snacks, big soft pretzels, yoghurts, sweets and some salads (yes, including potato salad). As for hot food, well, anyone for sausages? (Hey, we are in Germany...)


Feel like testing your inner bartender? German beer on tap is available - draw it yourself.


Yoghurts and pudding available. Not sure about the green bananas, though...


Various salads and accompaniments for crudities.


For those of you not quite getting the JFK urban legend - i.e. when he 'said', "Ich bin ein Berliner" - here is the butt of the 'joke'.


A little sample snack from the buffet - it's all typical German comforts here. On another given day, this would go down nicely with a big glass of German beer.

I saw the boarding time for my flight seem to pass by, so it was time to get moving. There were no boarding calls in the lounge - not necessarily unusual in this part of the world and for an airport with a very large number of flights every day - so I went up to the front counter to ask whether my flight was really boarding or not. A quick check of the computer confirmed that boarding had commenced and I should be making my way quickly to the gate!


Flight: Lufthansa Cityline LH936 Frankfurt am Main (Flughafen Frankfurt am Main) (FRA T1) - London City Airport (LCY)
Depart: Sched 1815h; Actual 1817h
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Distance: 386 mi (622 km)
Aircraft: D-AECD "Schkeuditz" Embraer E190
Class: Business
Seat: 2F


One of the things about the Business lounge was that it was located quite some distance away from my boarding gate, so with boarding having commenced, I was hot on my heels. To make things rather more frantic, my flight was boarding from a bus gate! This meant that they really took the whole boarding on time and being at the gate on time thing very seriously, and they will not wait!

Moving at a pace slightly faster than a military march on hot coals, I made it to the gate and was directed downstairs to the boarding area where the bus was waiting. FRA has so many flights every day, there simply aren't enough jetways to give every aircraft one. So many shorthaul flights - particularly those operated with regional aircraft like our Embraer - were relegated to getting remote stands where pax are bussed to and from the terminal.


LH A380 spotted as our bus drove to our aircraft.


Our LH Embraer E190 as viewed from the bus... and as the heavens opened.

As I boarded the aircraft, I was greeted by the cheerful FA at the door, then directed to my seat. Business Class on shorthaul LH (and indeed, most of Europe) was the usual guaranteed spare seat next to you (i.e. middle block for 3-3 configured aircraft, or an alternating aisle or window seat kept spare on 2-2 aircraft like this one). On this particular aircraft, the spare seats could be transformed into a low lying cocktail table (very low lying, it's at the same level as the seat cushion, not the arm rest, like would be normal on many other airlines / aircraft).


The spare seat with the lowered cocktail table.


Legroom in 2F.