I've done the non-stop to SFO and Chicago. I love it. If you buy it several months in advance it's usually the same price and sometimes cheaper. you use Munich as an airport to connect through to go to San Francisco (or any other destination in the US for that matter), it works out much cheaper than leaving directly from Munich. For instance, I tried booking a Brussels-Munich-San Francisco flight and it was at least €100 cheaper than MUC-SFO!? Try this and see if you get the same thing. I figure you can get a BRU-MUC-SFO ticket and just show up at the airport in Munich without ever having flown the first leg.
Never change on the East Coast. everytime I've done it I've had problems. I get in late, customs takes so long, and then I miss my next flight.
Changing in Frankfurt isn't bad. I've missed flights a few times but flights to Munich are frequent so it's only delayed me a few hours.
flights to Munich, Germany from the US cities listed next to them:
Philidelphia, Boston, Chicago, Charlotte, Denver, Los Angeles, New York JFk, Newark EWR, San Francisco, Washington. All on Lufthansa, except for Phili which is US airways.DEN, SFO, LAX, ATL, MIA, RSW (Ft. Myers), JFK, EWR, PHL, IAD (Dulles), CLT, ORD (Chicago O'Hare), BOS.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Lufthansa direct flight to Munich from SFO US
at 3:31 PM