WSJ: LH To Launch A380 on FRA-JFK [merged first sheduled A380 destination thread]
Nov 7, 2009, 2:51 pm
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Even if I partially understand your point of view, what about yourself using awards on other *A-carrier? Imagine UA giving away F-Awards only to 1Ks. Think of AC or NZ limiting their Executive First or Business to Super Elite respectively Gold Elite? Would you only go where LH flies or sit in Y? Because nobody says that only carriers with 3-class-products would be "allowed" to cut their available award seats down.
And only a certifiable lunatic would redeem M&M miles for UA F !
Nov 7, 2009, 3:30 pm
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Nov 7, 2009, 3:54 pm
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The one in the picture is "MC".
Nov 7, 2009, 4:02 pm
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Okay cool. I was wondering which one it was. The MD tail is in production or on the way to production as well.
Did you see all the assembly, so would you know if MD is in final assembly or not? Did they say how long it takes to get one bird through final assembly in TLS? To make assumptions how long MC will take...
Did you see all the assembly, so would you know if MD is in final assembly or not? Did they say how long it takes to get one bird through final assembly in TLS? To make assumptions how long MC will take...
Nov 7, 2009, 4:46 pm
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We saw 6 A380s in production IIRC (but perhaps it was only 5 ... I was quite tired...): 2-3 (?) x LH, 1 AF, 2 x EK
Nov 7, 2009, 7:03 pm
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Is LH putting a new first class in these 380s. The F now is comparable to the nicer J products available.
Nov 7, 2009, 7:30 pm
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How's the A380 in Y? It seems like this would be a prime candidate for SFO-JFK on UA in p.s. EUA'd C connecting to JFK-FRA on LH.
Nov 7, 2009, 11:50 pm
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And that must not be the intention of *A.
I hope they take the right steps at Lufthansa to secure on the one hand prferred award availability to the HONs but on the other hand keep it available to everybody still. Everything else would - in my eyes - damage the worth of the network siginificantly.
Nov 8, 2009, 12:50 am
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Even if we did see the possibilities how the A380 COULD be equipped at AIRBUS, I guess nobody knows what Lufthansa really is doing in the end.
Nov 8, 2009, 1:24 am
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At the Q&A with LH CEO Wolf, did anybody ask him when the last was that he spent a flight in Y on a B747, maybe even on a night flight?
Nov 8, 2009, 2:51 am
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on top of all that, C awards are widely available all over the *A, even at peak times i never experienced major problems as long as i was a little bit flexible with time and/or date. so its not that you are stuck in Y just because you might not get F...
Nov 8, 2009, 2:54 am
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In my cases this year C and Y cabins were terribly overbooked, so definitely no extra C awards on short notice. But this depends...
Nov 8, 2009, 3:01 am
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Just extend my 3 examples to the whole *A-network and pick the carrier you like. I'm just saying that also YOUR travel possibilities in C or F could be significantly reduced if all carriers would do these cuts in available award seats.
And that must not be the intention of *A.
And that must not be the intention of *A.
Airlines should be for their own customers first. I am absolutely okay, that only SQ elites get SQ F awards, UA elites are preferred on UA and LH/LX is for LH/LX HON and SEN, period. At least for the premium awards.