Lufthansa business class sale now on

Lufthansa has launched one of its fairly regular long haul business class sales.

Click here to see sample fares and booking details.

Here are the conditions:

Purchase by: 02.01.2013
Departure period: 23.03.2013-15.08.2013
Return period: 29.03.2013-15.11.2013
Not valid: 15.04.2013-30.06.2013
Minimum stay: 6 days
Maximum stay: 3 months
Subject to availability

Frankly, these deals are certainly not overwhelming. £1,799 to Hong Kong or Shanghai is perhaps the best – I don’t find anything great about £1,499 for the short hop to Dubai.

You may want to check which routes are flying the A380’s, which will at least get you a proper flat bed instead of a sloping one!

I assume these fares also book into LH’s new ‘discounted business class’ category which earn reduced miles in Miles & More.

As I said, not overwhelming! However, it is something to compare to BA’s current fare sale.  You can book here.

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None of the Star Alliance airlines currently have a UK credit card.

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