Lufthansa online booking tool Meetings and Events

Lufthansa, Europe’s leading premium airline, has introduced a unique online booking tool that makes planning and booking individual group travel for global meetings and events easier and more flexible. The new Lufthansa “Meetings and Events” product provides both event organizers, and individual travelers with an event-dedicated webpage containing exclusive offers for participants from anywhere in the world.


The Lufthansa Meetings & Events product can accommodate groups large and small, from corporate meetings to association gatherings, trade fairs, sporting or cultural events. Event organizers who are hosting their participants’ travel can use either the online tool, or book through their preferred travel management company.

The online booking tool displays the negotiated discounted fares as well as any applicable sale fares in the participants’ local currency. Meeting participants are therefore assured of finding the best value to meet their individual travel needs. Travelers can also take advantage of several flexible options, including booking a companion ticket, or choosing travel dates up to one week before or after the event. Participants continue to have access to Lufthansa’s global network of more than 200 cities in 80 countries to choose from - and with the new online booking tool, code-share flights operated by Lufthansa partners are also eligible.



“Previously, booking travel for meetings and events was a time-consuming, often costly process for both the event organizers as well as the participants, who travel from many different cities to the same destination, often at different negotiated rates. Our new Meetings & Events product simplifies this process by providing one global offer in an easy-to-use online booking tool, thereby saving our customers valuable time and money,” explains Don Bunkenburg, Director of Corporate Sales and Regions, North America at Lufthansa.

Lufthansa Munich new Senator Lounge

 
Lufthansa has opened a new Senator Lounge at Lufthansa’s Munich Hub, enhancing the EU departures area.  The carrier is spending Euro 150 million on upgrades and extensions of its worldwide lounge network and has new aircraft worth Euro 16 billion on order until 2016. The airline had also opened its first Senator and Business Class Lounge earlier this year, at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International (CSI) Airport, in India.
Axel Hilgers, Director South Asia, Lufthansa said, “The new lounge in Munich is one of many ongoing investments in new products and services that enhance the travel experience of our customers.”


The latest addition in the global network of premium lounges also marks the debut of a new Lufthansa lounge design: featuring a bar at the centre where travellers find a wide choice of brewed coffee, tea, wines, spirits and non-alcoholic drinks. Travellers can choose from a variety of hot and cold meals, freshen up in showers or use computer workstation. Via its Munich hub, voted among the best five airports globally in the recent Skytrax survey, Lufthansa offers more than 5,000 weekly flights to 100 destinations in 38 countries. In this core market, where Lufthansa celebrates 50 years of operations in 2009, the airline has been upholding all frequencies and destinations in the current summer schedule.