Lufthansa

A380 is a quiet and comfortable aircraft but the seats Lufthansa hat put in have too little legroom even if you are not super large (183 m in my case). The entertainment program is very good IF your touch screen monitor is working correctly. Two out of four we had were not. Not very comfortable for the person in front since you need to bang their back rest in order to get something to work.

A nightmare. Seats are very small with poor space available for passengers.

Usually the B747 legroom is poor but on Lufthansa airline is particularly poor - which tends to be a bit of torture on a 12 hours flight.

BKK-FRA. Lufthansa's 747-400 is the worst economy class experience for me ever. I'm used to cramped economy classes on different airliners but this was an extreme experience. My knees were deep inside the forward seatback. Poor guy in front of me tried to recline his seat but it was impossible. I couldn't recline my seat because of a very bad design of the seat; when you try to recline your seatback the seat itself moves forward for one or two inches. I couldn't get my feet under the forward seat. There I sat jammed in my seat for 10+ hours. My knees and leg muscles are still sore after two days of that flight.

New seats look cheap and flimsy. Skimpy cushioning and no lumbar support at all. I couldn't say much about the recline because the seats were so packed in that I couldn't in good conscience do that to the passenger behind me. Pitch was so tight that the only way you could retrieve your carry on from under the seat in front of you is to basically lay your head in your neighbor's lap. The inflight entertainment was a joke - 2 small CRT monitors mounted over the aisle. It was the worst experience I've ever had on a transatlantic flight.

FRA-JFK Seat 87A. Legroom adequate for someone who is 6' tall. Even though there is a wall behind this seat you can still recline. Individual screens for inflight entertainment and selection was adequate to keep me occupied for 8 hours. The new Airbus 380-800 is a quiet smooth aircraft.

A340-300 and seat 27K last row of front economy cabin. Seat was spacious with 32" pitch. There is a space to recline the seat towards wall behind. There were no noise from the galley and toilets. Only problem is if pax front of you fully reclines you might feel a bit uncomfortable first. Entertainment equipment box takes some of the legroom.

HKG-FRA/FRA-HKG Terrible seats. With the seat in front of me fully reclined I could not exit my seat without lifting myself off the seat with my arms and levering my legs sideways. Re- entering the seat required major acrobatics as well. Legroom was insufficient and recline minimal. The seating was so bad that it really should not be allowed and I actually hold the airline licensing and accreditation bodies responsible for allowing this to happen. In flight entertainment was terrible since there are only old colour fringed CRT monitors on the ceiling. Headphone jacks are also incompatible with 3.5mm adapters preventing the use of normal headphones. Food was good however especially kids' meals.

Modern interior at first hides that seats are only tolerable for short hauls. Avoid this airline for overseas flights if you are over 6'. Incredibly cramped even in aisle. IFE in seat has good selection but box under seat and inability to see IFE screen when seat in front of you is reclined cancels out the good.

MUC-GRU. Although I reserved a window seat (27A) 2 months before the flight they gave me a seat at the last lane before the toilets located in the middle of the plane. The problem is that none of these seats recline - I mean no recline! Apparently Lufthansa staff does not care to tell passengers that during reservation at the check-in even though you are a Top- Tier flyer (Star Alliance Gold). Besides that this plane had only old TV monitors hung from the ceiling that had no view point from the seat I was. Worst flight for the last 5 years at least!