Lufthansa opens luxury lounge.

Luxury sells: Lufthansa at Frankfurt airport has a First Class Lounge in operation. According Wellness Spa and whiskey-drink can, the customer with a limousine to the plane Chauffeur - often with rubber animals in the luggage.

 

Frankfurt / Main - What are people who already have everything, from foreign bathrooms with? Little Yellow Quietsche-duck, the answer is in the new Luxury Lounge of Lufthansa at Frankfurt airport. "People are crazy about the animals," says Carola woodpecker at the reception at the German airports hitherto unprecedented Spa stands. Lufthansa lamented the massive loss of plastic animals, but on the contrary glad its major customers a little joy to make.

In the midst of economic crisis, the airline at its main hub in Frankfurt, a classy lounge packed in the transit area only by the First Class passengers and frequent flyers extreme may be used.

Covering an area of two football pitches will be the long-troubled "passengers to onward flight at no extra charge everything they also from the luxury hotels of the world know: work, flat screen TV, relaxing chairs, fine dining, more than 30 international newspapers, a bar with more than 80 brands of whiskey and a cigar lounge with a powerful exhaust. Overall, find up to 110 premium travelers a place commodes.

95 percent of the visitors are men, says the boss of the first-class sector Frankfurt, Ingrid Möller. According to dominate gray, brown and black lounge. Leather, glass and patinated brass put the accents. Of course, the freshly squeezed orange juice and especially thick towel. Noble nuts are always ready, as well as limousines for connecting flights, more than half of the visitors use.

Foot peeling for 35 euros

The real highlight of the approximately 1200-square-meter facility, however, is behind the counter by Carola woodpecker to be found. She is the mistress of six pools, each of them a single well would face. Besides the duck Quietsche find the traveling top managers and wealthy private citizens an extensive range of spa services, from an hour and a complete package for 150 euros to foot exfoliation (35 euros) last.

"I am personally amazed at how well the assumed," says Lufthansa's hub manager Karl-Rudolf Rupprecht. The Europeans are still skeptical, while U.S. citizens to such offers were totally open. In the states, there is finally long wellness big commercial providers at the airports.

For Lufthansa, which account for about one-fifth of their turnover with First and Business wants tickets, it is important in the global competition for the affluent customers to exist. Premium customers ultimately pay a multiple of the Economy Prize. For the next five years, investment of 150 million euros in the Lounge of Lufthansa planned system, the world's 65, this in three classes (First, Senator, Business) shared facilities with a total of more than 28,000 square meters of space operates. A lounge offers the first airline in Frankfurt, except only in Munich and New York.

At its main hub in Frankfurt, with around 34 million passengers and flights to 169 destinations, Lufthansa had already in December 2004, a dedicated terminal for their solvent customers.

Generators hum end

Apparently, also the top clientele cyclical insensitive than the companies involved in the crisis skimp on the tickets. In the first segment had been different than in business class do not impact the crisis be felt, says Rupprecht. The six-digit number of the first guests per year in Frankfurt climb steadily. "Today it is more than ever: Aldi or First."

Meanwhile the battle staff in the new transit lounge with teething problems. The optimal setting of the air conditioning is still just as sought quieter generators in the wellness area, which is still audible buzz. The fact that the Telekom has not yet done, the phones to work stations to provide even know then but ordinary citizens in person.