Berlin
Back from Berlin, went out on the first service Sunday 3rd June, as mentioned by Ian a few posts back.
I assume the fact it was a late Sunday evening, a UK bank holiday weekend and it was not going to the much heralded new Berlin airport was the reason why the first indication that it was the first service was at 37000ft over Germany during the first officers update of the progress of the flight?
No business pax outbound or inbound tonight but a very different make-up to each flight. Outbound Sunday the load was between 80-90 and most seem to be UK leisure pax and of course there was nothing too shocking about that.
Tonight was only third flight and was there was about 60 passengers but a much different make-up. There were a lot of Germans in suits and a lot of German speakers full-stop.
One source shows the A319 as 138 seats, which I must admit sounded a lot to fill for a BHX-Berlin flight on a daily basis but you never know.
What was interesting was the ultra-slimline racaro seat Lufthansa now use giving a lot of legroom for an aircraft the size of an A319 with 138 seats.
I would imagine very good for most LH missions but anything longer than three hours might affect your back even with the leather.
Pete