Originally Posted by
layz
The current LH shorthaul product does NOT have tables blocking the middle seat. Those seats with the tables were given to bmi. The ex-bmi product is the old Lufthansa seats not the current ones.
On some aircraft the first few rows have had a table screwed in to block the middle seats as the aircraft is over capacity for the crew numbers (same reason why BA's 737's have a few rows where the B seat is blocked in a domestic config). If you go a few rows back on LH business or on an aircraft where they don't need to physically block the seat then there's no more table.
I've never had problems with any of the BA crew in CE, but my experience with LH is serve business, then do economy and if there's time then go back to business. I prefer the BA approach of having a member of crew dedicated to the cabin.
Edited to add: how can you say BA's current seat is high density? The current one offers 33" pitch, Lufthansa 30", bmi 31". Unfortunately you're wrong about BA keeping the current seats. The plan is very similar to Lufthansa.
I am talking about the longhaul J seat being high density.
I am pretty sure that on my most recent LH flights to and from LCA we had a fold down middle table but may have dreamed this up. In any event on a relatively long flight I found the seats comfortable and pleasant and on a par with the new BA spacesavers in CE.
If you take a long BA flight in CE you have a fair chance of having the awful shorthaul 767 with atrocious seat pitch, I don't think LH has any equivalent here.
Ex LCY too LH block seats in C so the cabin is 1-1 unlike BA Cityflyers 2-2.