Lufthansa cuts return flights to Germany to just 7,000 miles for the summer

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• Jimmy says:

  14 Jul14 July 08:39

  I’ve just started flying regularly to Germany. With BA status and Avios earning now such a dead loss, I thought a bit of loyalty with Lufty might be worth a go?

  It isn’t – and for many of the reasons Raffles highlights. These trips aren’t going to earn me status with either airline (especially as my BA year-end is only four months away – why no rolling year for Blues?), the earning rates are pathetic and the burning costs are ludicrous.

  So, for the first time in my career I’m resigned to go for price-sensitive flying. It’s just embarrassing to go to the hassle of arranging travel plans around a handful of points. Status, yes. A reasonable reward of points, yes. But this? No.

  • helper says:

    14 Jul14 July 09:07

    How regularly? 25 return flights a year will earn you silver? I find it’s easier to pick up avios from other channels (such as Amex sign-up bonuses). 20,000 gets you 2 return flights in near Europe with a few left over

• mikeact says:

  14 Jul14 July 09:12

  For comparison,maybe, lowest FB, UK to Germany,20k miles + 120 Euros.

• czechoslovakia says:

  14 Jul14 July 09:23

  Whilst LH economy short haul redemptions are relatively poor value – (this is only due to RFS), you can pay ALL taxes and charges for an extra 15,000 miles (within EU). Given my usual monthly trip from Prague to Manchester earns me around 3750 miles, this means I get one GENUINELY free trip for every 7 to 10 paid economy DISCOUNTED trips. I`d say that stacked quite well against the BAEC / Avios offering. Oh yes, also availability virtually 100% more than 3 days out, on almost everything. And double dip on PPB, even as a solo traveller/firm. Or a huge range of products in the worldshop, in case you`re fed up of travel. I`m saving up for a Rimowa alu case. 85% there 🙂

• Lady London says:

  14 Jul14 July 10:58

  Lufthansa completely ******ed my round the world award. They switched flights I was booked on to Germanwings that made it impossible for the adjacent award flights to work any more. They cancelled an important leg and just told me no more flights that day and refused to provide perfectly acceptable alternatives on other airlines. The early legs were all LH so they were responsible for fixing the ticket. They simply refused to take responsibility for what they had done and would not fix it. I get tickets changed to other airlines now when work books them with any segment on LH.

• Alan says:

  14 Jul14 July 14:43

  What a rubbish offer! They could have potentially done OK too if they’d made it available to regional airports too, as it would have looked quite favourable compared to the new BA double-Avios-for-the-joys-of-spending-hours-in-LHR malarkey!

  • Rob says:

    14 Jul14 July 15:12

    My thoughts exactly. From Manchester etc it would have been an acceptable deal, especially on peak Summer days.

• Alex says:

  16 Jul16 July 14:08

  Ehm; £135 is not taxes. Taxes on the ticket are about 13 pounds I think. Other than airport service charges (30 pounds?), the rest (about 90 pounds) is a direct payment to LH’s coffins.

  Carrier LH SNC26OW LON to FRA (rules)
  Passenger type ADT, ONE-WAY-ONLY fare, booking code S
  United Kingdom Air Passengers Duty (GB) £13.00
  United Kingdom Passenger Service Charge (UB) £32.18

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