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.
I hesitate to say this but you’re beginning to sound like Tyler Brule.
Lance, are you criticizing yourself now? If so, you’re doing it very well — made me laugh, anyway.
BTW, just bumped into a former reporter of yours — Andrew Clark, used to be a graduate trainee on World Link — has now moved to NYC to be the Wall Street correspondent for the Guardian.
Aha. The problem is my wife left a comment on a computer where I was logged in. No insult could be greater in our house.