Lufthansa is in the process of rolling out its much anticipated new Allegris business class cabins, and so far, they’re installed on select Airbus A350-900s and Boeing 787-9s, consistently available on some long haul routes.
Lufthansa has heavily marketed how its new Allegris business class product is all about choice, and that the airline offers at least five different business class seating options. The catch is that a majority of these seats are actually buy-up options, so they’ll cost you extra if you just book a standard business class ticket.
In this post, I’d like to take a look at how Lufthansa Allegris business class seating actually works in terms of the fees. How much will you pay to assign the various types of Allegris business class seats, and what happens if you don’t pay for a seat in advance? Is waiting until check-in to get a seat assignment going to get you the worst seat, or is that the hack to get the best seat?
Let’s start with covering the basics of Lufthansa’s different kinds of Allegris seats, and then we’ll talk about how much assigning them will cost you.
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For example, I recently played around with this a bit on a flight from Austin (AUS) to Frankfurt (FRA). Before online check-in, below is what the seat map looked like (I assume the pricing was showing in CAD since I had redeemed Air Canada Aeroplan points).
As you can see, there was a classic seat left to assign, but it was a center seat in the last row. Meanwhile there were were a few business suites, a couple of privacy seats, and an extra long bed seat, so I figured there was no downside in waiting. Worst case scenario, I’d end up in the only seat I could assign at no cost anyway.
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