Lufthansa starts all-business class Munich-Mumbai flights

Deutsche Lufthansa AG, the flag-carrier airline of Germany, has launched an all-business class flight between Munich in Germany and Mumbai in India.
The Munich-Mumbai flight is being operated by a Boeing B737 aircraft having 44 seats in a business class-only configuration.

Lufthansa Flight LH 764 takes off from Munich at 11.15 a.m. and lands in Mumbai at 22.50 p.m. on the same day. In the return direction, Flight LH 765 leaves Mumbai at 00.40 a.m. and reaches Munich at 5.55 a.m. on the next day.

These flights, according to a statement from Lufthansa, will replace the earlier all-class offering between Munich and Mumbai.

Lufthansa said that, from August 22, 2009, it will introduce its intercontinental-style business class on the Boeing B737 Business Jets that it operates on the Munich-Mumbai route.

Axel Hilgers, Lufthansa’s director of South Asia operations, said in the statement that the carrier is “happy to be the first airline” that connects Mumbai with destinations abroad by a regular Business Jet-service. These exclusive flights, Hilgers added, offer better access between Europe and India as also to onward destinations for business travellers.

In another development, Hilgers added, Lufthansa has “raised service levels further” on the existing all-business class route between Pune and Frankfurt with the introduction of a Boeing B737 aircraft.

The features of the new Business Jets flying between Frankfurt and Pune include Lufthansa’s intercontinental-style Business-Class seats. These seats, according to Lufthansa, have an improved seat pitch which create a “virtual horizontal bed” that is over 6 feet long. Each seat has PC power, integrated reading lamps as well as a large-display multimedia player that offers individual, on-demand video and audio.