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Old Oct 22, 2022 | 1:54 am
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8420PR
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You can ask at check-in and the gate, but not much more you can really do.

In 15 years of flying Lufthansa, I often asked but only managed to volunteer to get bumped once. On big travel days in Frankfurt they used to have a paper list of flights that were significantly overbooked at check-in, but my flight was never on it. When asking at the gate, having checked luggage and being on a connection through FRA seemingly made me less desirable or the overbooking was resolved by people misconnecting or not having the correct travel documents.
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