San Diego to Munich in Lufthansa A350-900 premium economy

Read the full review (which contains gobs more info):

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I know I know I know. As a San Diego based airline reviewer, making a video about Lufthansa's A350-900 service from SAN to MUC should've happened a long time ago. I sincerely apologize for the delay.

So yeah - this is a full review of Lufthansa flight number 467 (in premium economy). In general, the seat was ok and the food decent. It wasn't the best long haul premium economy experience I've ever had, but it's hard not to be picky when flying nonstop to Europe from San Diego.

I had seat number 15D, the aircraft registration was D-AIXH, and the total flying time was 10 hours and 31 minutes.

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[justintrotter]

I am glad somebody on YouTube is actually reviewing premium economy/ economy ….I am so tired of these influencers all flying first …I mean us pheasants can’t afford 12k for a seat

[cegthd]

Love how you refer as German transport as being punctual when the trains in Germany are late all the time 😂

[fdanieln]

PE was the best you could do but still a really needed review!

[KurtBunch]

I love their premium economy seating. Yeah I wish I could do business class, but the premium economy is good. Flew to Munich last year and had no issues with the space or service. The only pain was they were still requiring mask for the whole trip so that kind of sucked. I will be traveling back to Germany next year and I'm already on the lookout for a good deal, fingers crossed.

[peterhughes]

Great to see you back doing a long haul review. I was looking at LHR to SAN with BA a few weeks back, Damn it shocked me!!!!

[cincinatti_matt]

Great to see Lufthansa back at San Diego!🙌 brilliant review as always

[billy]

I recently flew round trip Denver to Frankfurt on a Lufthansa 787-9, in Premium Economy. It is very similar to what you are showing here, same seat, food, tv screen, legroom, etc. One thing I liked is we could use the restroom just in front of the Premium economy, there is one on either side next to the galley, so I hardly had to go far to use the facilities. I had a bulkhead window seat in both directions, and the legroom was amazing, didn't have to ask my seat mate to move to get up or return to the seat. Also the entry, exit door is right there at the adjacent galley, so getting on and off is quick and easy. Flight time from Denver was about 9.5 hours each way. I agree that Prem Econ is prob a better choice for most people, it's not sky high expensive as business class is and makes a trans atlantic flight a lot more comfortable. I got my seat for about an extra $400 each way via their "bid for an upgrade" feature. I could have done better, my return seat mate said he put in a $200 low ball bid and got it for Frankfurt to Denver, but you never know, so I bid a bit more. I also thought the Lufthansa crews were very efficient, friendly and did a great job on the service. Thanks for the great video!

[TomP]

As a fellow San Diegan with German origins I enjoyed your review. I used to be a loyal LH customer, but unfortunately they really got worse over the last few years, I'll be using up my last LH miles later this year for this route in their outdated C product, then I have two trips on BA to LHR in their Premium Economy coming up, let's see how they compare to LH. Not a big fan of BA either, but at least we have these two nonstop routes to Europe... I agree, business tickets are outrageously expensive right now, looks like these days Premium Economy tickets cost as much as I sometimes paid for Business before the pandemic.

[davidcole]

Scott, I absolutely love your reviews. I sense a wee bit of passive aggressiveness in them at times...LOL! If it were me doing a SAN to Europe flight, I would travel to the east coast the day before and catch an airport hotel, then continue to Europe the next day. I hear a lot of not so good things about Lufthansa lately and you certainly made your share of digs at them in this review, but in a fair way.

[neillthornton]

Fellow SAN traveler here! I am really shocked you don't have a way to get in to the Aspire lounge... we have joked that they even accept library cards for access since it seems like they belong to every single scheme out there for entry. Keep the videos up, and hope to give you a fist bump somewhere in T2 someday!

[DoomMetalPrincess]

Thank you very much for this video and review. I'm planning a trip to Europe next summer and this was the exact airline and seat class I was considering. Glad to hear that it seems worth the extra money than economy!

[worldtraveler]

Thank you for highlighting the issues I’ve been noticing with premium economy across all airlines. In alot of ways your paying more for basically standard economy.

[thehighdiveSD]

Agreed. We need more nonstop SAN to Europe flights. These BA prices are ridiculous…

[Daniel]

Don’t you get access to the United Club lounge above the food court with a Star Alliance ticket and Gold status on a Star Alliance airline?

[bikertime]

punctuality in German transport. Our ICE from FRA to Stuttgart was 2 hours late and maxed at 100KPH. So, the 1 hour trip turned into 4 hours.

[AshanKarunagaran]

UA Gold equates to Star Alliance Gold so you would have had all the standard Star Gold benefits on LH (hence the priority boarding). You could have checked in at the First Class counter and accessed the lounge.

[LowBudgetKiwi]

I love this, you rarely see Premium economy reviews

[timoswindowseat]

Boarding Group 2 is for Star Alliance Gold Members, too. Thats why you could go in second group.

[JohnnyK]

Breakfast made sense to me flying out of SAN, southwestern cuisine.

[Jere_]

Flying Lufthansa A350 Premium Eco next spring, kinda hopeful I get one with the new seats but deffinetly dont expect it. Good to know tho that the seat is much more comfy!