Originally Posted by
totti
No, you should not assume K is a classic fare! When you book you can decide whether or not you book light, classic, or flex. There is three large columns on the screen with the respective labels and you just choose whatever you will. The website will choose classic by default though.
I am not convinced by this system and find it rather annoying because you can end up with a (somewhat) flexible ticket for less than 250 euros on some routes (e.g. FRA-DRS) while you may pay 500+ euros for a light fare that has no flexibility at all (e.g. FRA-GVA) and even on the same route you may pay more for a less flexible ticket because you end up in a higher fare bucket… But apparently this is what customers want or at least LH says so…
I am struggling to identify which class of K I can choose. The terminology used on FT differs from that shown on Lufthansa.
My choices are solely "basic" or "basic plus I". Both show "1 piece of baggage included", "economy check-in" and "no lounge access". Both show as K Class. The only difference I can find is that "basic" shows a mileage accrual of 25% whereas "basic plus I" shows 100%.
Since I want to earn United Miles - the mileage accruals shown are irrelevant to me (since K class earns 0%).
Being a Star Alliance gold customer it was explained to me upthread that I will get lounge access and priority check-in. So it appears the details on Lufthasa's website don't apply for *A Gold customers. I don't know what the 1 piece of baggage applies to as it isn't descriptive enough - 1 checked bag at 20kg? Plus a carry on? Regardless - there seems to be no way to identify what K class level I can choose from. Any ideas?