Flights LH3718 and LH3720 - where are you? [Flights FRA to QFP Fictious point]
Flights LH3718 and LH3720 - where are you? [Flights FRA to QFP Fictious point]
Aug 11, 2012, 1:20 am
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I took this shot in the LH lounge in Frankfurt in July.
Fictitious Point?
When I checked a few minutes later, those flights were gone...
Fictitious Point?
When I checked a few minutes later, those flights were gone...
Interesting sight at any rate, some sort of test of the information system maybe?
Aug 13, 2012, 1:52 am
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Somebody tweeted about this recently... https://twitter.com/JasonGeske/statu...14072698818560 Luck also mentioned it.
Fictious point is the city name of QFP that LH uses to test systems, other airlines use HDQ or FSG.
Methinks they are testing the A+ gates and create dummy flights to issue BPs do gate assignments and will start the boarding tests soon, so you will see more and more of this show up till Oct 10 when A+ goes live.
Fictious point is the city name of QFP that LH uses to test systems, other airlines use HDQ or FSG.
Methinks they are testing the A+ gates and create dummy flights to issue BPs do gate assignments and will start the boarding tests soon, so you will see more and more of this show up till Oct 10 when A+ goes live.
Aug 13, 2012, 2:46 am
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LH3714 to Seeheim and LH3718 to Fictitous Point appear to be departing from the two levels of the same gate (A54 and Z54). I hope they'll sort this kind of error before 10 October.
Aug 13, 2012, 5:47 am
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Interesting - let's see if they also have loaded fares for "flights" to QFP. Maybe the system lets you check in for your Seeheim-QFP on a fully virtual itinerary for which miles will be credited. I would do a V-MR then...
Aug 13, 2012, 5:58 am
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If log in to Amadeus training you can see/use QFP to issue tickets, I think they use that environment to checkin/board too.
Aug 16, 2012, 4:47 am
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LH is indeed testing the A+ concourse with the 3700 flight numbers:
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Der Countdown für den Flugsteig A-Plus läuft. Damit die Eröffnung am 10. Oktober gelingt, haben Lufthansa- und Fraport- Mitarbeiter am 14. August den Betrieb am Flugsteig geprobt. Während um 8 Uhr rund 100 interne Komparsen in den Ablauf eingewiesen wurden, gab es zur gleichen Zeit Briefings für prozessbegleitendes Personal, Koordinatoren, Beobachter, Bus- und Brückenfahrer. Ausgerüstet mit Klemmbrett, Stift und Fragebögen machten sich die Testpassagiere auf den Weg zur Probebetriebsfläche. Dort wartete Lufthansa-Flug LH 3700, der einen Outbound Non- Schengen-Flug darstellte, bereits bei Gate Z54 auf seine Gäste. Der Beförderungsklasse entsprechend prüften die ,Passagiere‘ die Wege vom Gate über Fluggastbrücke und Flugzeugtreppe bis in den auf der A380- Stellfläche wartenden Bus. „Die Busse mimen unsere Flugzeuge“, so Ulrike Flake-Bauer, Leiterin operationelle Inbetriebnahmen, Terminalinfrastruktur & Services, FRA JI/OI. Wenig später testeten die Statisten das Brückenbauwerk in Gegenrichtung auf seine Wegeführung. Beobachter schauten aufmerksam, ob die Testpassagiere in die richtige Ebene wechselten und die Technik für Türen und Aufzüge funktionierte. „Der Probebetrieb gab neue Aufschlüsse und verlief sehr erfolgreich“, resümierte Michael Spors, Leiter Projekt Infrastrukturentwicklung Frankfurt, FRA JI. Noch 54 Tage Noch diese Woche erfolgt die behördliche Abnahme, die den Flugsteig auch für Testläufe mit ‚echten‘ Passagieren freigibt. In Phase 2 wird der A-Plus- Betrieb ab dem 11. September mit externen Komparsen geprobt, bevor in einer dritten Phase am 27. September der Gesamtverbund getestet wird. Vom 17. August an sind es noch 54 Tage, bis der Flugsteig A-Plus mit einer Kapazität von bis zu sechs Millionen Passagieren jährlich eröffnet wird.
Aug 12, 2015, 11:54 am
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I took this shot in the LH lounge in Frankfurt in July.
Fictitious Point?
When I checked a few minutes later, those flights were gone...
Fictitious Point?
When I checked a few minutes later, those flights were gone...
Coincidentally, I can add a bit more insight: Lufthansa Private Jet uses it for its bookings.
In a few weeks I will fly from SFO to FRA and then further. If I check on lufthansa.com I see two legs: SFO->FRA and FRA->QFP. Also the time for the second leg is completely wrong (it departs before the arrival of the first flight). It also has a LH9xxx flight number. I am not sure if this is a limitation inside the LH booking system, or done on purpose to not disclose information about this flight all throughout their system.
BTW: The seat reservation chart is also completely off: it shows 15 rows of economy with 10 seats per row – all available. Looks really funny.
You do receive a different booking confirmation for that flight which shows the correct times, airports, special services, etc.
Aug 16, 2015, 10:52 pm
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Coincidentally, I can add a bit more insight: Lufthansa Private Jet uses it for its bookings.
In a few weeks I will fly from SFO to FRA and then further. If I check on lufthansa.com I see two legs: SFO->FRA and FRA->QFP. Also the time for the second leg is completely wrong (it departs before the arrival of the first flight). It also has a LH9xxx flight number. I am not sure if this is a limitation inside the LH booking system, or done on purpose to not disclose information about this flight all throughout their system.
BTW: The seat reservation chart is also completely off: it shows 15 rows of economy with 10 seats per row – all available. Looks really funny.
You do receive a different booking confirmation for that flight which shows the correct times, airports, special services, etc.
In a few weeks I will fly from SFO to FRA and then further. If I check on lufthansa.com I see two legs: SFO->FRA and FRA->QFP. Also the time for the second leg is completely wrong (it departs before the arrival of the first flight). It also has a LH9xxx flight number. I am not sure if this is a limitation inside the LH booking system, or done on purpose to not disclose information about this flight all throughout their system.
BTW: The seat reservation chart is also completely off: it shows 15 rows of economy with 10 seats per row – all available. Looks really funny.
You do receive a different booking confirmation for that flight which shows the correct times, airports, special services, etc.
I use LPJ occasionally and sometimes the booking will appear in your M&M account (for me it's always when the LPJ flight is booked in conjunction with an LH commercial flight).
It'll say, for example, FRA - QFP (instead of FRA - AMS or wherever you're going). I've been given flight numbers beginning with LH98XX. Seat plan onlin is as described above, and the timing of the LPJ sector is always incorrect.
It is fun to be given your own LH flight number though, even if it is to "fictitious point"