Lufthansa First Class Frankfurt-Denver

Lufthansa 446
FRA-DEN
747-400
December 16, 2012
New First Class
10:35A-12:45P (sked)
10:30A-12:35P (actual)
Departed 5/8
Seats 83C and 83H

Our Personal Assistant escorted us thru the maze of security doors and up a huge elevator inside the jet bridge. We cut thru a queue of Y pax and entered 1L where she handed us off to an FA who escorted us thru the J cabin to our "stairway to heaven." What an amazing ground experience, once again. This is as close the charter as you get flying commercial.

Again WiFi equipped!

On time push and we were ready to go on our 9 hour 35 minute trip to DEN.
Great plane sightseeing on our taxi. Some of the industry's best...

And the not so best...

If you are tuning in to see more gluttony and macabus-like champagne consumption, you will be disappointed. After four days of eating and drinking like there is no tomorrow, we both decided that it was time to dry out. Indeed, with the exception of a couple of glasses of Riesling with my lunch, ice water was the extent of our drink consumption the entire flight.

And since we had just finished breakfast in the FCT, we weren't hungry. I asked to defer lunch for at least a couple of hours. Our lead FA was cool with it, but the 2nd one seemed less than enthused. Although she seemed to be off from the outset, but that could have just been her nature... tall blonde, once young and attractive, now not so much as the years taken their toll.

Mrs. SFO started watching Ted, and laughed so much that pax downstairs could have heard her.  I popped the 19.95 euros for WiFi, did a little work and started working on this TR. But 7,000 M&M miles? Seriously? I don't think so.   WiFi was great, faster than most AA/DL gogo flights.

Still not hungry even after the movie and the two hour meal service for the three pax in rows 81 and 82, Mrs. SFO hopped into bed and promptly went to sleep for 4 hours.

About 4 hours into the flight, I decided to have something to eat. Today's menu...

I went light today with just the salad, Baby Leaf Salad with Chanterelle Mushrooms, Cucumber and Cherry Tomatoes with Orange and Mustard Dressing. It was delicious and almost as good as my KE salad last month.

As none of the Braised Beed, Char or Goulash did it for me, I opted for today's Lufthansa Classic, Free Range Goose flavored with four Spices Orange Sauce Joachim Wissler with Red Cabbage and Potato Dumplings. It was excellent as was the 2011 Pechstein Riesling, although this would have been even better if it has been properly chilled. Ah well, first world problems.

I moved over to my bed for about an hour, and then some more work. At about T-2, Mrs. SFO woke proclaiming that she was totally refreshed after "an amazing sleep". She decided that she was finally ready to eat. Today's snack menu was Asian Delight.

I wasn't very hungry but had a little Thai Vegetable Salad and Sweet and Sour Pork Belly cooked in Soy Sauce with toasted Sesame Seeds, Spring Onions and Chili. Very good.

Mrs. SFO started with the Thai Vegetable Salad, Sushi with Japanese Ginger and wasabi.

Then the Tenderloin of Beef Strips with red Thai Curry Sauce and wok fried Vegetables with Basmati Rice.

She had the Fresh Fruit.

While I tried the light but tasty Pineapple and Mango Tart.

Shortly thereafter, we started our descent for an on time arrival back at our new home town.

This was our first time clearing customs in DEN and wow, what a hike from A41... up, down, up and over the top of the long walkway between the A concourse and the main terminal, down to C&I. Only two Global Entry kiosks, but they were both working and unoccupied when we got there. Unfortunately, Mrs. SFO got a big X on her receipt (apparently a finger print recognition issue) so she had to stop and talk to an CBP agent. Once outside of customs, we were right beside Terminal West valet parking where our SUV (yes, we're in Colorado now) was warmed and waiting for us.

Another great Lufthansa experience with Mrs. SFO proclaiming that "the seat and the bed is the only way to fly." As the only premium TATL option from DEN to Europe (BA has no First and UA is not premium), and relatively easy award seats, I think we'll be doing this often.

Thanks for coming along on the ride. Hope you'll join us next week for our first Swiss First flights (LAX-ZHR-ORD) as we head to Spain for the New Year.