Davos Newbies

Murphy must not have wanted me to complain about Lufthansa. A minute after I posted the previous comment something went worryingly wrong with my computer. All of a sudden the screen was showing a series of red lines. Nothing would appear. Yanking out the battery and restarting produced the same.

I hope it’s just some minor video problem (is anything on a computer minor?), but this looks like the third complete disaster with my laptop this year. Thankfully most (but not all) important things are in my Gmail storage.

I don’t want to obsess about travel matters, but my Lufthansa flight really bothers me. We had a wonderful new plane on the leg from Dubai to Frankfurt. Business class seats just about as good as British Airways, which is saying a lot. I asked the stewardess whether we’d get a modern interior on our San Francisco leg. “Almost all the aircraft are like this now,” she cheerily replied.

Sadly, no. SFO-DXB business class return on Lufthansa costs $11,000. And it’s rubbish (although I do like kvetching about it from an Internet-connected plane).

Addendum (from over a spectacular-looking Greenland): The seats are still rubbish, but I have to say that the cabin crew are as nice and professional as any I’ve encountered. So when Lufthansa guarantees that all their long-haul aircraft have the newer Recaro seats (by next April, allegedly) I’ll be a happy traveller with them.