LH is perfectly pleasant to fly and I personally put them in the same league as BA for long haul J. Short haul J is also in the same league. I found lots of hyperbole on this thread for two airlines which are in fact very comparable for lots of aspects. The Business lounges are very comparable too, with the exception of the new Panorama lounge at FRA which is much nicer than the Galleries, SEN lounge is nice, maybe sub par compared to GF.
For the other LH group J, Swiss was disappointing. The food was not that good and the seat is not comfortable in bed mode. OS has a great reputation for their long haul J and I am very excited to try it soon.

As for German train, i suggest you come live here and use them regularly. Official figure of 2018 is 25% of long distance trains are delayed by more than 60 minutes.

Indeed but that is not the airlines fault, it’s up to legislations and policy in the individual country.

In many countries considered to be secure I have, non-deliberately, got through security to discover liquids in my bag later, one has to question how effective their screening then is.

How does Air France or KLM compare in J?

I’ve travelled LH J twice on those good old BD redemptions that we’re I think 30000 plus £300 or 20000 and £450.

The first was BHX-FRA-ATL-FRA-BHX. And the second was LCY-FRA-DXB with onward travel on LX to MCT then back to DXB and MS to CAI and LHR

I was statusless at the time check in in BHX mediocre, used Servisair lounge which has crisps and prepacked breakfast pastries. Middle seat free, ok breakfast service to FRA, parked in the a*** end of nowhere and spent half a day driving round FRA before worse connection experience. Ok lounge, seats fairly comfortable on the A330 in 2 2 2..empty seat.

Return pretty much much the same, vowed never to change in FRA again until next redemption.

E190 departure from LCY, Seat next to me free which isn’t guaranteed on BA, mediocre breakfast service, same poor transfer experience in FRA , lounge Ok, 747 to DXB. Business class in nose. Had the single throne seat in the middle of the nose but rows 1-4 in nose full. Lounge agent said I’d probably get better service in second or third row of main cabin part of Business class so swapped and again had a mediocre seat.

Food and drink probably a bit a bit better than CW. This was my first time to Dubai or any ‘strange’ foreign country. I asked LH what the arrivals process was and they arranged for the meet and greet service at no charge. A nice touch, met at aircraft stairs, golf buggy to visa desk, visa collected,golf buggy to immigration escort3d to baggage carousels and customs. A nice touch.

Short haul I think Club Europe wins, Lounges, Galleries Club wins, seat comfort LH slightly ahead as not a fan of CW. BA staff probably got the edge, if they don’t have the Polish they have the charm and Britishness. Lufthansa mostly helpful eg got cheese plate from First Class but ask for champagne on a breakfast flight and you’d think it was coming from their own pocket from the look on their face.. Frankfurt transfer..... I’d prefer to depart from Manchester and thats saying something but repeated the experience with a redemption.

At the time, as a Blue BD card holder for 3 x VS LHR-JFK in Economy plus £450 was a far better experience than I was use to so do feel guilty given my critique, have the satus bug no, no real incentive to move away from One World unless price was a real driving factor.

Indeed. For the benefit of readers less anal than us .... Lufthansa wanted a five star Skytrax rating but cannot achieve it under their guidelines with the current J seat. LH then announced a new qualifying J seat (which will not appear for a number of years and only then on a handful of planes) and Skytrax mysteriously decided that this counted as meeting the criteria for 5 stars.