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Update: I’ve booked myself Seoul to Frankfurt to Munich to Toronto to Los Angeles one way for 70k miles. The long legs are in Asiana First Class and Lufthansa First Class. I can check out the First Class Terminal in Frankfurt from whenever I get to the airport until 10 AM. I wish it were longer, but I am excited to have a chance to get inside.
As for the trip, I am thinking of getting to Asia on the Island Hopper plus Avios and trying to see North Korea.
Lufthansa First Class award space is currently bookable with United miles from April 2014 through October 2014. This is huge news because normally Lufthansa First Class award space is only bookable with partner miles 15 days before departure. I expect this glitch to be corrected within a few hours, but I expect all tickets booked to be honored.
Lufthansa is widely considered to have one of the nicest First Class products in the world, and they are one of the three carriers I want to fly as soon as possible!
One of the main reasons I want to fly Lufthansa First Class is to enjoy access to the First Class Terminal in Frankfurt. Booking today would give access to the First Class Terminal if you book the right routing.
Book now!
If you have any desire to use this award space, book now. You will be able to cancel for up to 24 hours with no penalty. You’ll get all your miles and taxes back. But I don’t expect this deal to last 24 hours.
More info on the routes with the available space, the products that fly those routes, and how to maximize the deal after the jump!
Lufthansa has a world-class First Class product in which it normally doesn’t release award space to partners until 15 days before departure.
Lufthansa introduced two new routes served by an A330 with the newest Business and First Class products between Munich and Mexico City starting April 3, 2014 and between Munich and Toronto, starting June 5, 2014.
Right now both have phenomenal Business and First Class space from the day they start through the end of the calendar including peak summer travel.
Toronto to Munich
Toronto to Munich will be operated daily by an A330 with three cabins and the new First and Business Class products. The route starts June 5, 2014.
Below is the calendar for two passengers flying direct from Munich to Toronto. As you can see, almost every day from June 5 on has award space in premium cabins for two passengers. Most of the flights have award space for both business and first class passengers.
Mexico City to Munich
Mexico City to Munich will be operated five days a week with an A340-600.
Below are the award calendars between Mexico City and Munich for two passengers. I only see business class space, no first class space. Business class space only runs through July 30, 2014.
Getting into First Class Terminal
The First Class Terminal is in Frankfurt. Most people access it by being a departing First Class passenger from Frankfurt. You can also access it, though, if you are flying from Frankfurt to Munich to connect to First Class there.
So if you book something like Frankfurt to Munich to Toronto to your home airport, you can access the First Class Terminal in Frankfurt.
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This was awesome. Booked a trip home to India in June with a week long stopover in Europe, all in business. BOS-YYZ-MUC – stopover – MUC-ZRH-BOM, BOM-ZRH-BOS.
Glad it worked for you!
can this be booked with US airways miles?
Only if you convince an agent what he’s been trained not to do: long sell LH F.
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Scott–a follow up question. I’ve always been curious about traveling in first and since it is available on LH on the YYZ-MUC leg, I am tempted to try it. Can you share how United would handle this? Would the entire itinerary be priced at first class prices? It is currently 120k RT pp. Thanks.
One way would be at the first class price, one way at the business class price–140k total in your case.
Not enough UR unfortunately. Oh well, some other time. Thanks for the tip!
I’ve tried to convince two US Air agents to do a “manual request” “long sell” for these flights. I couldn’t convince either to try it. One even said that she knew that this had been written about on a couple of blogs but that the information was wrong. Would have loved to get these flights!
Only if you can get BKK-(TG)-FRA-(LH)-MUC-(LH)-YYZ-XXX in FC. 70K one way. Maybe you can switch over to the TG A380 when that award becomes available down the line.
How is it that you booked that flight above? Did you have to call it in? I can see all of the availability, but when I try to mock up the itinerary online, I get the error. It seems a lot of the time you and other bloggers always book these 5-9 leg trips, but never clearly state how you did it, so I am just curious if you are always booking it over the phone and paying the fee.
I had to call. I didn’t even attempt to book online because I knew I would get an error. I just searched segment-by-segment and called. I could have put something on hold first to try to save the $25 phone fee, but time was of the essence, so I just called and paid the phone fee–$115 taxes and $25 phone fee.
I can’t seem to get it work: ATL-YYZ-MUC-CDG and back since my destination is Paris. Help.
Hi,
I would like to book SIN-FRA-ORD all in one-way UA Award ticket, all in LH first (no stopover in FRA, same date connection in FRA) this coming month. I know the fact that LH seats are only released within 14 days and oneway on UA award ticket from SIN to ORD via Europe does not allow stopover (unless for booking roundtrip). From my understanding, the total cost of this trip is 70k, all in first class + taxes from departure cities. My question is that, after finishing the SIN-FRA on LH, after arriving at FRA, is it possible for me to change the FRA-ORD leg to a later day on UA flight (within 1 year period of booking date)? Thanks in advance.
PS: I am sure that I will have to pay for 21-day closing booking fees and change fees of $100, so a minimum is $175 without status. I saw your UA award ticket on Thai A380 first from BKK-europe, you added a segment to middle east to have the cost of 65k miles in first instead of 80k.
I do not know. If you attempt, please let us know. If your goal is a stopover though, there may be a pretty cheap way to get it. For instance, you can try to book SIN-FRA (stop) FRA-ORD (destination), ORD-EWR (in economy) and claim it’s an open jaw roundtrip. The last leg is only 10k, so if they let you book this, it is 80k and you get your free stopover in FRA for 10k. Since ORD-EWR is last, you don’t even have to fly it if you don’t want.
I’m planning on hitting up DPRK as well. Would love to have company, cause it’s hard to find people wanting to go. Best time to go would be mid-August to go to the Arirang Festival.
Shoot me an email if you’re interested in a NK travel buddy!
My time frame is September.
Do your dates work with any of the tours offered at YPT (http://www.youngpioneertours.com/2014-tours-preview/)? From what I’ve gathered, they’re the best group to go with.
I totally get the desire to just say you’ve been somewhere and check a place off the map, but in the case of North Korea is there REALLY any reason to go other than to say you’ve been there? Have you visited every other country in Asia?
I don’t think it’s even to say you’ve been there.. it’s to see something that’s completely different from everywhere else in the world. There is no analogue for the DPRK.
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