JFK-FRA-SIN Lufthansa First Class
Sep 6, 2002 | 10:22 pm
#31
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The return leg of the trip can be found here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum81/HTML/003059.html
And B Watson, Seat 2A: I love your trip reports too!
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum81/HTML/003059.html
And B Watson, Seat 2A: I love your trip reports too!
Sep 8, 2002 | 4:10 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Gaucho100K:
As the snob that I am, I also enjoy reports written by fellow snobs. </font>
As the snob that I am, I also enjoy reports written by fellow snobs. </font>
Sep 9, 2002 | 7:41 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by B Watson:
Tout que je peux dire est que je les suis beaucoup dans l'attente la lecture l'avenir.</font>
Tout que je peux dire est que je les suis beaucoup dans l'attente la lecture l'avenir.</font>
Buster CT1K, thank you for a wonderful trip report. And please don't mind the barely housebroken readers that can't tell the difference between elitist and snob.
Sep 23, 2005 | 8:08 am
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Bad behaviour
Originally Posted by Buster CT1K
One thing to note: Germans cut in line quite often. A business-traveller type tried to cut in front of me at security when there was only one person ahead of me, and no one behind me. I asked him if he was traveling with the guy in front of me, he said no, I advanced a step, and he fled to another line. Now, lest you think me a hypocrite, apparently cutting in front of others is the done thing in Germany: an article in a German guidebook says that it's OK to cut infront of others, for example when you're in a big hurry. If others object, that's their prerogative, but you're entitled to try cutting the queue.
Individualism (or better egoism) is the big thing in Germany nowadays. In those situations other better educated Germans in line normally roll back their eyes, but don't say a word - they try not to match the image of an ueber-teacher who tells others what to do (but in reality, of course, it is just an unnecessary ueber-liberalism which supports bad behaviour of those fellas.)
Well, I'm sad to say: there's something (in fact: very much) rotten in the state of Germany...
Sep 23, 2005 | 2:27 pm
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Originally Posted by Buster CT1K
The return leg of the trip can be found here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum81/HTML/003059.html
And B Watson, Seat 2A: I love your trip reports too!
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum81/HTML/003059.html
And B Watson, Seat 2A: I love your trip reports too!
I can't get the link to the return trip to work... has it been moved somewhere else?
Nov 19, 2005 | 7:48 pm
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Assuming this is a paid F ticket, I feel any perceived snobbery justified.
It's people who lay down the cash for F tickets, and perhaps have high demands, who have a right to have these demands, support our el cheapo tickets and great benefits.
It's people who lay down the cash for F tickets, and perhaps have high demands, who have a right to have these demands, support our el cheapo tickets and great benefits.
Nov 19, 2005 | 8:19 pm
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I read this report without even looking at the original post date then realized it was some 3+ years old but, no worries, it made me wax nostalgic for Mrs. Paris and our amazing, uber-snobbish Twentieth Anniversary Trip to Roma and Paris which you can read all about at http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=402640. Only true snobs would post links to months-old threads to flaunt them in front of underlings and the lesser fortunate...Southwest Airlines devotes and non-status flyers.
Les snobs vrais ne prendraient pas la peine mme de traduire de franais-anglais car j'ai fait ici pour montrer que je suis, tandis que je m'inquite pour ne pas penser cela, un snob vrai et certifi.
Loved reading the menus...that little sterling silver 3-layer tray each person gets when they serve the appetizers (not the caviar...it came on its own plate) was just amazing...I loved every minute in LH FC and can't wait to get back.
Thanks for sparking a pleasant memory!
MWP
Les snobs vrais ne prendraient pas la peine mme de traduire de franais-anglais car j'ai fait ici pour montrer que je suis, tandis que je m'inquite pour ne pas penser cela, un snob vrai et certifi.
Loved reading the menus...that little sterling silver 3-layer tray each person gets when they serve the appetizers (not the caviar...it came on its own plate) was just amazing...I loved every minute in LH FC and can't wait to get back.
Thanks for sparking a pleasant memory!
MWP
Last edited by mwp2paris; Nov 19, 2005 at 8:23 pm
Nov 28, 2005 | 5:27 pm
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As I started reading your report.....I got about 3/4's of the way through.....and I said: Huh - uh! That's wrong! Those Bogner sweatshirts were given away years ago. What is he writing about? Then I realized this is an old thread, resurrected from the dead!
I guess I am a snob, too. I know that dark blue Bogner are the old sweatshirts given on LH years ago, with the soft grey Boss and Aigner and others in between. And you know what........if that's what makes me a snob, I am glad to be one.
And this will make me more of a snob: in the last 10+ years, I have flown 25-30 times in LH F/C. I have always sat in 83A.....my fav seat in the air. And I don't even travel internationally on business.......those are my vacation trips.
Yep.....I bring my pillows, too. Down, thank you very much. Not feather.
And, Otto, by the way.........the hoi polloi would never be upgraded from coach to First. They would only make it to business class. It's the quasi-hoi polloi who get upgraded to First, but only from biz.
[Damn.....I surprise myself at what a snob I can be.]
I guess I am a snob, too. I know that dark blue Bogner are the old sweatshirts given on LH years ago, with the soft grey Boss and Aigner and others in between. And you know what........if that's what makes me a snob, I am glad to be one.
And this will make me more of a snob: in the last 10+ years, I have flown 25-30 times in LH F/C. I have always sat in 83A.....my fav seat in the air. And I don't even travel internationally on business.......those are my vacation trips.
Originally Posted by OttoGraham
I detected more than a little bit of snobbery in this report too. I think snide references to hoi polloi being upgraded from coach and chugging champagne, as well as expecting blocked-off seats in F as if it were a birthright are the height of snobbery. That doesn't take anything away from the entertainment value of the report, though, perhaps it is an insight into what kind of person I will be saying "hello" to next to me the next time I get upgraded from the back of the plane. That is, if they haven't already stolen my pillow......
-Otto
PS If you want a nice fluffy pillow on an airplane, bring one with you. I usually do.
-Otto
PS If you want a nice fluffy pillow on an airplane, bring one with you. I usually do.
And, Otto, by the way.........the hoi polloi would never be upgraded from coach to First. They would only make it to business class. It's the quasi-hoi polloi who get upgraded to First, but only from biz.
[Damn.....I surprise myself at what a snob I can be.]