Hello htb,

from September 1st 2012, you receive a flatrate of 1250 miles per direction on innereuropean crossborder flights for Business Z fares (equalling 100% of the miles), therefore you will be able to earn 2500 miles for the flight FRA-MXP-FRA in case you travel in Z. In case you choose Business Class fares C,D and J, this will enable you to earn 4000 miles for the same return flight. As I do not know exactly if this is what you are referring to, you are also welcome to contact my colleagues from the web support http://f.lh.com/sgch to verify this matter.
Maria

Dear Maria,

I know all of what you said. However, your website displays 2000 miles per segment for the flight, which is simply false. If it's not intentional, it's incompetent because -- as you say -- the change was made on September 1st and announced way before that.

As I said -- it took me less than three minutes to find this example, but your IT department claims that everything is in order.

HTB.

Dear htb,

Why waste your time on this, we will only get evasive answers. The website is simply customer misleading, just like codesharing booking classes (haven't heard anything sensible anymore from LGA from that....) Shame nobody would take LH to court for this, I bet then they'd improve the site then. Just my 2 pence.

Thank you for looking into this issue, I've sent you some past and future booking codes via PM.

Gergely

No direct contact / long answer times
 

Hi there,

I don't want to solve my current open issue, but raise the question why LH/M&M is not able to provide a direct contact for tricky issues and or takes "ages" to reply only to have the customer tell his story over and over again because there's a new agent.
I had asked over and over again for a direct contact for my issue (open since the beginning of 2012!) but was not able to receive it - instead I have to fight with email and/or fax to always include all the details, because "hey there's always a new agent".
I understand that LH/M&M wants to be flexible and effective in terms of their communication and "standard requests" - but once you reach a point in an issue it's better to have someone on the phone to talk to (and I don't mean the hotline, as there is also always a new agent or someone telling you to just wait - been there done that).

Cheers
TheAirman

Hi

I wonder if you can help.

I was flying FRA-SIN on 6th of Oct. As I was told there was a huge luggage system failure at FRA and I end up without my baggage for 3 and half day. I called Lufthansa office and I was told I can buy some necessary stuff and I will be repaid for that. I made a claim in order to get those money back and this claim was registered (as I have got feedback number). But that was more than one month ago and I think I was told they have up to 1 month to answer such claimss. I wonder if someone can tell me what I should do in order to speed it up.

Thank you

Hi anwan, would you like to send me your feedback ID number via PM? I’ll contact Customer Relations to see what’s going on. Vanessa

Hi TheAirman,

while I understand where you’re coming from and also that it can get a bit frustrating to always start from scratch with a new agent, there are of course also advantages to not being assigned to a single agent, such as the possibility of a 24-hours-service.
I will of course gladly contact Miles and More to see if there’s anything I can do to help regarding your case. Would you please send me your Miles & More card number and all relevant information via PM?

Kind regards, Vanessa

Hello htb,

I will forward your feedback to the respective department.

Maria

Dear Flyin Dutchman,

your feedback is important to us and I will forward it to my colleagues.

Maria

Booking classes
 

Dear Lufthansa,

one thing I never have understood with all airlines, why on earth are there so many booking classes out there?!? may be you can help me to understand that, my post is of course referring in part to the recent complaints here on the boards about the booking guarantee restricted to J class, which I find a bid unpractical.

Since you can't choose the booking class if you buy a ticket on-line, and over the SEN hotline its also rather random what you get (in my experience), wouldn't it be easier to just crap most of them, reduce the available booking classes to a very minimum and an amount a human being can manage to understand?

If have seen that there are now de facto 3 distinct different types of b/c classes, J I had only once... To pull an analogue, there was one guy who succeded in a turn around of a major car company, one of the first things he halted was, to reduce the number of personalization options greatly. I mean, if there are only two business classes, one clearly marked as a discounted, one as a normal business class, that would be plenty and enough IMO.

The hassle and annoyment it creates on both sides, comes surely at a price. It will also allow to greatly improve transparency.

I understand that because of "only" 3% margin and this ridicolous tax imposed in Germany, LH has to optimize their balance sheet substancially, that's why I am avoiding for my modest part lounge entrys just to grab a cookie and so on, my hourly rate surpasses most economy flights costs in Europe and I for my part am very delighted about everything what reduces the amount of time and brain ressources I have to allocate to airtravel.

Sincerely,
Bernie

*bump*

It's now 9 weeks since I got my first feedback reference number. 4 weeks since I got my second. Only 4 1/2 more weeks until we fly. I wonder if I'll be contacted before then ...

Hi Vanessa,

I sent your a PM with all the relevant information. I understand the advantages of no direct contact, but at a certain point it's just necessary :)

Cheers
TheAirman

Hi Bernie2012,

Apparently that is a general prerequisite for airlines! ;-) But when booking online, you can always see the respective fare rules when clicking on the offer. I just tried it for you and saw that it is indeed not possible to select J-Class in the beginning. I will forward this hint to my colleagues from lh.com.

Best.
Stefanie

Actually BC "J" on LH.com is the most easy to select since you only need to go for the "flexible segment" option.