Lufthansa opens 'new design concept' lounge at New Delhi IGI airport, first of its kind in Asia

Just six days after making New Delhi as the first Asian destination for the new Boeing 747-8i, German carrier Lufthansa has opened its 'new global design concept' lounge at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), the first of its type in Asia.

Lufthansa’s new lounge concept includes enhanced design elements like poster walls and comforting accessories. The walls are designed with wing-view motives to give guests a feeling of sitting inside an aircraft. Specially manufactured designer furniture includes ergonomically designed lounging chairs. The lounge offers the expected amenities of complimentary hot and cold dishes and snacks, a variety of non and alcoholic beverages, workstations and Wi-Fi internet.

The Lufthansa lounge, Delhi, is located in the main atrium of Terminal 3, and spreads across 3,767 square feet (approx. 350 m2) and can seat up to 131 travellers.

This is the second Lufthansa lounge in India. The first lounge was opened, in 2009, at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA), Mumbai.

The Lufthansa Lounge in Delhi is for exclusive use by First and Business class ticket holders of Lufthansa, SWISS and Austrian Airlines, HON, Senator and Frequent Traveller cardholders from the Miles and More frequent flyer programme.

Unlike the Mumbai lounge, the Lufthansa, Delhi lounge is not open to Star Alliance Gold members of other airlines.

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Lufthansa Miles & More members to earn miles when shopping at Bangalore airport duty free

In a first for India, Miles & More, the frequent flier programme of the Lufthansa group has tied up with Nuance duty free shop at Bengaluru International Airport to offer its members earning of frequent flier miles while shopping.

Miles & More cardholders can earn 2 award miles for every US$1 (approx Rs. 44) spent at Nuance's duty free shops both at the arrival and departure areas of the airport.

Lufthansa has stolen a march over all its competitors. This is the first time that an airline frequent flier programme has tied up for duty-free shopping in India.

The FFP programme also has Matrix Cellular, The Leela Group of Hotels, Taj Hotels Resorts & Palaces, Oberoi Hotels & Resorts, Trident Hotels, Deutsche Bank, Indiatimesshopping.com, Woodland retail, The Economist, TripAvisor.in as some of its partners in India.

The programme boasts 600,000 members in India and about 19 million world-wide.

For more details visit the Miles & More website.

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