This morning, after dropping my daughter to school, packing and driving to the station, I got a direct ICE from Berlin Hbf to Munich and then the S-Bahn to the airport. Amazingly for Deutsche Bahn, it was all on-time and I got to MUC at 16:08 for my 18:25 flight. I didn’t take many pics of the train ride, as I was working as much as possible to meet a deadline.


My private first class compartment on the ICE 4 from Berlin to Munich


Currywurst mit Pommes for lunch. I ordered via the ICE online portal and it was delivered to my seat. Great service!

I had had problems checking in for MUC-ATH, as my ticket was waitlisted for the upgrade so I had to check in at the desk in MUC. The agent assured me I was still on the waitlist despite the app showing me I wasn’t but that upgrades would be assigned at the gate. Needless to say, I was unlucky but the app still shows that I have used all of my upgrades. I’ll have to monitor that in the coming days.


Walking from the S-Bahn to the terminal

A3 check-in desks

Business and Gold desk

After clearing security in record time, as it was empty, I had to take the train to the K gates.


This way please

I did go to the LH Senator lounge but no pics, as it was really busy and I just had some water to rehydrate. I went to the gate early to see if anything was forthcoming with the upgrade but obviously, that failed. I boarded with group 2 and was very impressed that the LH auto-boarding gates refused anyone in the wrong group.