Review of Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Helsinki in Economy

introduction

Hello amigos!

This is part 2 of my trip to Helsinki from Madrid via Frankfurt in Lufthansa.

If you want to know where we are picking up from, you may check the first flight here:

transiting in Frankfurt-main

We had a timely arrival to FRA, and disembarked in Pier . We had time to spare to our flight to Helsinki. 
Priority pass has crappy lounge agreements in FRA. Fortunately the Mrs. had lounge access through her CC to the Lufthansa Business Lounge.

It had been ages since I had seen a Singapore A380

Entering the LH Business Lounge, was a bit of a hassle, but we made it through. The place looked quite orderly. Not fancy, but practical. LH style in the end.

I helped myself with some "German" delicacies from the buffet bar. This way we compensated for not having anything to eat on the MAD-FRA run.
As you may see from the paper in the second picture, the horrible war in Ukraine was just starting. You could feel a slight tension in the environment all around. 'Twere uncertain times…

It's a shame that we didn't have unobstructed view to the apron…not many Jumbo's that morning though

Time passed by and it was time to board our next flight. Happily we didn't have to walk much to our gate.

Our gate is one of the odd ones in FRA where the plane parks in parallel to the terminal in the space between piers A and B

So here were the jumbos!

And a TK intruder

boarding

Boarding was called, we were on one of the last groups to board

This plane was fitted too with the spartan, yet not horrible seats that are commonplace in LH's short/medium haul fleet

It was a rather full flight to Finland

enroute to suomi

We took off towards the West

We crossed over the clouds and then headed north, so we passed once more over Frankfurt

We cruised between the clouds and the clear blue skies

Then we had the award-winning service. (And it's better than IB)

We then passed over…Berlin (?)

And reached the Baltic (this was officially the northmost I had been in my life)

Most of the flight consisted in crossing this calm sea… meantime, my thoughts were with those in the havoc a south of there, and how we were nearing the wolf's den… I happened to put a "World War 3" podast in the meantime…great entertainment!

Eventually, Estonia came into view

Which meant, landing was due… we entered Finland west of Espoo

And had a scenic air tour of Helsinki

Zoom into the downtown

And Kalasatama, where we were going to stay

And…another view of the city, now showing more of the East and North

We did a U turn towards the west and lined up with Vantaa's runways

Moi Suomi!

There was a One World long haul convention at HEL

The ATC tower

We unbarked our Star Alliance-liveried A320 and headed to the train station