The wife works for Lufthansa and the flight is full. We are allocated standby tickets at discounted prices. I sat in the jump seat on Friday and was well on my way to being drunk when I landed. God bless generous stewardesses
Lufthansa are great, they were oversubscribed for a flight back from HK a fair few years ago. We volunteered being bumped, got business class upgrades, vouchers for EUR600 each and even though we came back via Singapore we got use of the rather good Singapore Airways business lounge. Full bar with barman, hot and cold snacks, cricket and footy on the TV.
The stewardess was acely German too, "fish or beef?" Beef. Later, on service
"here is your fish"
"but I didn't order fish"
" you must have the fish, you have a green sticker"
"I didn't, I don't like fish"
takes sticker to light
"You are right, the sticker is blue." "here is your beef".
I guess you had to be there.
We went to New York on our vouchers, got home 12 hours late but much better refreshed thanks to not being in cattle
