Review of Lufthansa flight from Paris to Frankfurt in Business

Return to Asia

This is the second leg of my hastily booked return trip back to the US from Thailand.

Lufthansa Senator Lounge (CDG)

After a surprisingly quick trip through passport control at CDG, I made my way to the Lufthansa lounge at CDG.  The Star Alliance lounge unfortunately was in the non-Schengen area so I couldn't access it without going through passport control on my way out.   I only had a short layover here and didn't think it would be worth it.

The Lufthansa lounge is located in Terminal 1, Satellite 6, in the basement.

Importantly, I was finally able to select seats for my flight to IAD here (for some reason the agent wasn't able to do it on the phone).  The front desk agent helped me with that and then printed me new boarding passes for my next two flights on LH.

The Senator Lounge had a variety from sofa chairs, to workstations, to tables.  The outlet situation here wasn't great either.  There is also a closet for you to hang your own coats/jackets.

The beverage station remained busy throughout so I couldn't get a clean picture, but you had your options of coffee, tea, various juices, and self-serve alcohol.

There was a nice bread selection along with hot and cold breakfast options.  For the hot dishes: scrambled eggs, porridge, sausage and potatoes were available.

There was also a large display of celebrating Galette de Rois as part of the festive season.  There was a funny hand drawn "King" to go with the celebratory display.

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My ride to Frankfurt was on D-AIUJ, a 9 years-old Airbus A320-200.

Boarding began on-time at 8:15am.

Lufthansa has the standard European blocked middle seat business class.  I was seated in 4D for this flight.

At first I hoped I was lucky enough to get no one in the window seat, but alas it wasn't meant to be.  There was a bit of a delay with takeoff clearance.  We were scheduled for a 8:40am departure, but didn't push back until 9:12am.

After taxing for a while we took off at 9:24am.

There was Wifi available on this flight, with prices as shown below.

Service began 8 minutes after takeoff, I had a glass of water and sparkling wine (actually, I couldn't remember whether it was sparkling wine or champagne).

Breakfast was served all at once on a tray (as expected on a flight this short).  Nothing exciting about this meal, but at least the croissant was warm.  I was offered refills on my drinks this flight, but declined–no need for the extra calories if its cheap wine (and also 9am).

After the meal we got a little chocolate.

While I didn't purchase a Wifi plan, I could still track the flight path using the Lufthansa portal.

We landed at 10:11am and reached Gate A11 at 10:19am (19 minutes late).  The gate was conveniently close to passport control.