Originally Posted by
PhilUSA
This is not acceptable.
India is a very important market for LH and using 15 year old 744s is simply bad. Not that I am saying that I would enjoy FRA-IAD with the 'Sachsen-Anhalt' either, but what about some rotation and not making it so obvious? Afterall Indian pax pay good money for round trip tickets US-INDIA in all calsses and this market will contiunue to grow.
I don't get this discrimination against these routes.
Seeing that LH enjoys a quasi-monopoly on these routes, it makes a lot of sense for LH to use their old planes on routes where most pax perceive there is no real alternative to LH. I completely agree with you that this is not acceptable - which is why I'll fly BA to BOM in Feb, saving at least 25% of the ticket price in the process - and they kindly put me in F (A) on the inbound!