What is HON worth to you?
May 2, 2019, 3:41 am
#301
Join Date: Oct 2004
Programs: LH HON
Posts: 3,420
Probably not worth the personal capital and extra effort. HON is best if earned via travel you already had to do, not travel you do just to make it (unless, of course, you're a trivial amount of miles short and want to do a run).
Cheaper to fly F on the trips you already do. If you're looking for intra-EU flying in style, fly private or book airport VIP services.
Cheaper to fly F on the trips you already do. If you're looking for intra-EU flying in style, fly private or book airport VIP services.
but seems like the OP is more after the ‚status glamour‘. He mentioned that money is not an issue but at the same time is after KBP fares so I think i‘ll excuse myself from this discussion
May 2, 2019, 4:01 am
#302
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: London, Paris
Programs: LH HON, AF Platinum
Posts: 2,001
May 2, 2019, 4:40 am
#303
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: CH / NL
Programs: LX HON, FB Platinum for life, Sixt/Hilton Diamond
Posts: 189
PS. In addition to KBP fares, I am now also considering MXP fares!
May 2, 2019, 4:45 am
#305
Moderator: Lufthansa Miles & More, India based airlines, India, External Miles & Points Resources
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: MUC
Programs: LH SEN
Posts: 48,162
May 2, 2019, 4:46 am
#306
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: London, Paris
Programs: LH HON, AF Platinum
Posts: 2,001
May 2, 2019, 4:50 am
#307
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: CH / NL
Programs: LX HON, FB Platinum for life, Sixt/Hilton Diamond
Posts: 189
With regards to KBP or MXP, guess that's personal. For me, never been to KBP before where instead of MLX I am several times a year (but closer to home to start my trip).
May 2, 2019, 4:51 am
#308
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: London, Paris
Programs: LH HON, AF Platinum
Posts: 2,001
May 2, 2019, 5:07 am
#310
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: London, Paris
Programs: LH HON, AF Platinum
Posts: 2,001
Yeah, so I did do research effort (at least enough to qualify for "some"), no such fares to JFK/EWR/SFO in December, January, at least as far as I can tell. But if you see them, I'm all eyes and happy to eat a hat or something.
May 2, 2019, 6:10 am
#311
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: BRU
Programs: LH HON**
Posts: 382
Since I’m a newbie, I looked at the thread title and went back to the very first post of 2008. At a first glance it seems like HON benefits haven’t evolved in 11 years or more, while I believe the status has become more difficult to achieve.
Would be curious to hear from HONs what benefits you wish you had, but that have either been removed over time, or not been added so far?
What benefits have you noticed that other airlines offer to their ultra top tiers, but you don’t get from the LH Group as HONs?
Perhaps you even feel that, realistically speaking, this is as good as it will ever get?
Would be curious to hear from HONs what benefits you wish you had, but that have either been removed over time, or not been added so far?
What benefits have you noticed that other airlines offer to their ultra top tiers, but you don’t get from the LH Group as HONs?
Perhaps you even feel that, realistically speaking, this is as good as it will ever get?
May 2, 2019, 6:21 am
#313
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Geneva
Programs: LX SEN, AFKL Platinum, BA Bronze,
Posts: 5,627
I recommend for a good comparison to take a look at the AFKL ultimate thread and you will discover that it is no match for HON. A few posters there have ULT and HON status and can directly compare.
BA GGL is great if you are LHR based but does not provide any solution for awful transfers at LHR.
Despite devaluations over the last years, HON is still ahead of other top statuses IMO.
Put differently: without HON I avoided FRA at all cost, and with HON I’m there just about every other week.
BA GGL is great if you are LHR based but does not provide any solution for awful transfers at LHR.
Despite devaluations over the last years, HON is still ahead of other top statuses IMO.
Put differently: without HON I avoided FRA at all cost, and with HON I’m there just about every other week.
May 2, 2019, 6:23 am
#314
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: London, Paris
Programs: LH HON, AF Platinum
Posts: 2,001
I recommend for a good comparison to take a look at the AFKL ultimate thread and you will discover that it is no match for HON. A few posters there have ULT and HON status and can directly compare.
BA GGL is great if you are LHR based but does not provide any solution for awful transfers at LHR.
Despite devaluations over the last years, HON is still ahead of other top statuses IMO.
BA GGL is great if you are LHR based but does not provide any solution for awful transfers at LHR.
Despite devaluations over the last years, HON is still ahead of other top statuses IMO.
May 2, 2019, 8:09 am
#315
Join Date: Oct 2004
Programs: LH HON
Posts: 3,420
Since I’m a newbie, I looked at the thread title and went back to the very first post of 2008. At a first glance it seems like HON benefits haven’t evolved in 11 years or more, while I believe the status has become more difficult to achieve.
Would be curious to hear from HONs what benefits you wish you had, but that have either been removed over time, or not been added so far?
What benefits have you noticed that other airlines offer to their ultra top tiers, but you don’t get from the LH Group as HONs?
Perhaps you even feel that, realistically speaking, this is as good as it will ever get?
Would be curious to hear from HONs what benefits you wish you had, but that have either been removed over time, or not been added so far?
What benefits have you noticed that other airlines offer to their ultra top tiers, but you don’t get from the LH Group as HONs?
Perhaps you even feel that, realistically speaking, this is as good as it will ever get?
while limo and lounge on a intra European trip in Y, it’s nothing I’d bend over backwards for.
the quality of the personal assistants varies (as kind of to be expected), still they all try their best and despite me sometimes wishing they had more power in clearing A waitlists etc, I get it that from an economical standpoint it doesn’t always make sense. Fair enough.
so all in all: being HON is nice and it pays off well in irrops. But I wouldn’t go out of my way to re qualify.
to your actual question: where available, my long haul travel is usually in F. When going on vacation i usually travel on miles. It is becoming more and more difficult to get the F awards I want at the right dates (my schedule is rather fixed so ‚I found something 5 days later‘ doesn’t help). So one benefit that i‘d really appreciate would be booking guarantee (limited to for example 2 trips at 2 pax per year or so) in O - not just I. While it’s nice that I can get pretty much any flight
in business as an award, why would I want that if the flight has F...