Another RTW First Class Experience

I enjoy flying new airlines and inaugural flights so when Austrian released saver Business Class seats on it's inaugural LAX-VIE flight, I was all in.  With another 72 hour hall pass, I toyed with various options for getting back to LAX.   In the end, American's Seoul-JFK mistake fare made the decision easy.  So with Mrs. SFO777's semi-blessing, I'm off to LAX and another 72 hour round the world trek.

 

In the end, the lure of First Class won out over a new Business Class experience.  So when Lufthansa released O class seats, I made the switch.   Lufthansa continues to struggle with PreCheck although they are making progress as I was able to OLCI at home and print a Lufthansa Boarding Pass with TSA PRE-CHECK.  

 

 

 

 

Since the Bradley Terminal doesn't have full PreCheck and lines can be annoyingly long and slow even for Business and First, I headed for Level 4 of the T4 garage and AA Pre-Check.  Level 4 was pretty empty and I found a parking spot close to the T4 entrance.

 

 

 

 

 

Alas, despite PRE-CHECK on both my mobile or paper LH boarding pass, the TSA computer didn't recognize either and the PreCheck agent wouldn't let me in.   So it was off to TBIT and the LH counter, to try again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With a new official boarding pass, I headed outside and downstairs to try the "secret" TBIT security checkpoint.

 

 

 

 

Wow, talk about a find.    Only one person ahead of me and Pre-Check lite worked perfectly.

 

 

 

 

 

From security, it was up an elevator to the TBIT-T4 connector.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh yeah, good choice as regular TBIT security was packed.

 

 

LMAO.  Someone has a sense of humor.

 

 

 

I stopped at the Star Alliance First Class Lounge where I met fellow FTer Levi Maeshan who was also in First Class on today's Lufthansa flight.  

 

 

Some pics of this underwhelming lounge from my December visit with Mrs. SFO777.    Qantas has this place beat by a mile.

Same weak selection of serve yourself food as last month.