Originally Posted by
adventures_await
I am trying to book a flight from SFO to FRF next fall. I want seats in the 747-8 upper deck. Lufthansa won't let me see seat availability until after I book the flight which locks me in with a flight where the upper deck seats are not available. I have tried United and other booking sites and still can't see what is available in the upper deck. Is there some trick to getting this information without being locked in to purchasing the ticket first?
Thanks,
To be clear, FRF isn't the code you should be using for Frankfurt (if Frankfurt's your target). The code would be FRA. But we can probably assume you had it right on the LH website.
On to the seatmaps: Using lufthansa.com and going through the booking process (but before entering any passenger details or payment method), I'm consistently greeted with this page when the website isn't broken.
This is where you can toggle between upper deck and main deck by simply tapping on the words "Upper deck" or "Main deck" . You can't see both seatmaps at the same time. You have to chose one or the other.
If your chosen flight is showing zero upper deck seats available, something else is going on there--maybe that flight is highly desirable and already filled up (one big royal family could do it), or maybe it's not really a 747-8, or maybe you're enjoying a delightful IT glitch. Hard to say without details about the specific flight.
