Lufthansa introduces Premium Economy, 20 years after Virgin Atlantic

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• Blacberryaddict says:

  15 Mar15 March 10:33

  I’m not sure about your comment of PE being the preserve of leisure passengers. I see quite a few leisure passengers in business class as well, and conversely see a lot of business travellers in PE (at least on BA – haven’t flown VS since 1990 something).
  PE is a bit better than Y – believe me – and when travelling on business (where typically we are not allowed business class) it does help surviving the flight. Plus the occasional OpUp to business is welcome.

• Kiran says:

  15 Mar15 March 10:49

  BA WT+ is my preferred cabin when travelling for business or leasure. That is of course after Club World. Our company policy does allow business class for flights more than 6.5 hours but the departmental policy doesn’t. So, WT+ is a happy compromise because I do occasionally get UUA availability. 90tier points is also a good bonus.

• Hingeless says:

  15 Mar15 March 11:39

  I’ve never flown long haul J on BA, lots of Y and even more F (thanks to raffles)

• Gumshoe says:

  15 Mar15 March 13:51

  Although it’s not advertised, Virgin do sometimes allow pay-as-you-go access to their LHR and LGW Clubhouses, strictly on a space available basis, for about £60 and £45 respectively.

  However anyone who regularly uses those lounges – and BA’s in T5 – will know at peak times they can become very busy, so guaranteeing paid access for PE/WT+ pax would overwhelm them. Virgin’s LHR Clubhouse is about to get busier as it is, with the transfer of several DL routes to T3 at the end of the month.

• Col A-B says:

  15 Mar15 March 14:55

  Interesting point you made about being in WTP & being offered upgrade to Club. I’m booked in WTP to fly YVR-LHR next week & all 3 of us on the same booking were offered the upgrade for £350pp. We took it!
  Now trying to get the Finnair website to work to get my CX Marco Polo gold number into the booking so I can save £80pp to reserve upper deck seats.

• david says:

  15 Mar15 March 15:21

  I have only ever flown PE twice both comp upgrades ….a long time ago. I think you are better off in a normal economy exit row. Having said that these days I cant cope with economy or premium ecomony.

• franknotes says:

  16 Mar16 March 23:53

  “Premium Economy, at least on BA. You have a pretty good chance of being upgraded to Club World on a full flight, and a pretty good chance of being offered a cheap cash or Avios upgrade to Club World on an empty one!”

  I have a WT+ flight to HRT in July (2 pax). What are the chances of both of us being given an OpUP (I booked the tickets and am BA Silver), and also, how soon before the flight would cheap upgrades – either cash or Avios – come in to play? Thanks.

  • Col A-B says:

    17 Mar17 March 02:32

    I’m flying Vancouver to Heathrow on Wednesday. Was booked in WTP. Happened to have a quick look in Manage My Booking on Thursday night (local time) and was being offered upgrade to Club for £350pp.
    This was a price I was told via the Business Traveller forum that was in line with usual upgrade price & was good value – so we took it on Friday morning, before the 3 were no longer available.

• Matt says:

  17 Mar17 March 20:57

  Could Lufthansa have made the cabin look any more drab? And I don’t think lounge access for WT+ is a good idea unless BA improve the size, it gets busy enough at peak times.

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