Lufthansa flight 405 to Frankfurt is now boarding

I’m pretty sure that the Lufthansa folks have never had over 100 passengers show up for the Star Gold boarding line.  Yet there we all were, a hundred of us, lined up waiting to board Lufthansa’s flight 405 from New York’s JFK airport to Frankfurt.  And we had a ridiculously good time.

We filled up the plane.  Literally.  We had almost all the seats in business class and a whole bunch in coach, too.  The plane was 100% full, plus a couple extras.  The Lufthansa employees from NYC coming over to Frankfurt for the event had to ride jump seat rather than even getting seats in coach.  There were literally no seats left on the plane.

The good news is that the seats we filled were done so with great fun and excitement.  The bad news, such as it was, is that the tailwinds on our flight meant that total flight time was just a hair over 6 hours to get to Germany.  That’s really fast.  So fast that full enjoyment of the meal service and the Business Class experience and also getting some sleep is really hard to do.  Almost impossible, really.  But that didn’t stop us from trying.

Here are a few photos from in flight:

And then, before I really had time to understand just how much fun I was having, we were less than 4 hours from arrival in Frankfurt!

Through some means that I have yet to fully understand, one of the folks in our group got access to the flight deck and rode up there for the landing in Frankfurt.  Seriously.  And he’s given me copies of the photos to prove it!

Yeah, that was our plane coming in for a landing in Frankfurt.  Finally, a shot that is often repeated but always enjoyable upon arrival in Frankfurt, the reflection of the plane:

More tours, lounges and incredible fun later in the day on arrival.  Those posts to come eventually.  Right now I’m too tired and drunk for my fingers to really work any more.