San Gottardo, your post was a perfect resumee of the situation with HON! To make it short from my side: they understood from the very beginning what very frequent travellers need the most: comfort! The limousine service, 1st class lounge, and fast track with escort. All others are just a nice to have.

I had a guy sharing the same Porsche Panamera with me a few weeks ago, and who didn’t stop complaining that it’s a shame to share cars when being HON. I told him that being ULTI at AFKL he would share a bus with 100 other passengers. He just replied: « AFKL? You seriously fly with them? ». While being arrogant, I think he was very clear in his explanation. They are only a few airlines in the world who are able to provide the very high end service a very frequent traveller needs, and obvioulsy LH Group is one of them, while AFKL is not. I would personally add SQ to that list.

Pity that I will probably loose the HON status by the end of the year. I will seriously miss it...

... while I would not miss anything from ULTI back to Platinum when being a frequent KL traveller.