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The fish tastes good, but if one would eat it all you would be more than stuffed, especially at this hour.

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Catering Passengers are served a tray with two starters (sliced breast of guinea-fowl with radish salad and pesto as well as halibut and salmon filet on fennel-apple salad) plus leaf salad and cream cheese dip, also the cheese is already served. But then, service pace is annoyingly slow, with the menu card given out and drinks served only an hour after take-off, which took place at 10pm local, and the meal is served only about 2 hours after rotation, much too late on a night flight. That shows again on this flight with abundant smiles, something frequent fliers don’t get to experience too often. Customer service on board What distinguishes Condor in general are its cabin crews, I have a feeling of often encountering much more enthusiastic staff here than at network carriers. The bed surface is hard, especially at the foot end, which bends down nastily at the end, and that consequently prevents sound sleep, at least for me. In bed position it is difficult for a man being 1.88 meters to find sleep. Condor offers a 15’’ screen at every seat plus power outlet and USB port.

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A distinct minus of Condor’s offering is the 10° angle in the bed position (Lufthansa offers full flat) and the shortness of the bed of only about 180cm (Lufthansa: 198cm). Both front row seat pairs 1AC and 1HK clearly offer the advantage of more leg room, but on this twelve-hour flight 1HK is blocked and curtained off as crew rest. The aircraft is fitted out with 30 seats in Business Class (Condor also operates a version with 18 seats), five rows in a 2-2-2 configuration, I am seated in 2G. Seat and Amenities Deployed on the flight to Cape Town is a 23-year-old Boeing 767-300ER D-ABUL, boarding is through a separate lane. Taking a Lufthansa feeder flight into Frankfurt like me even on the same booking, you can’t check in online for Condor, but still use the Lufthansa Business lounge in Frankfurt. This is important as background, to do a fair comparison. On the route from Frankfurt to Cape Town, which Condor serves up to three times weekly in winter, flights in Business Class are as cheap as 1,162 Euro per leg, while Lufthansa charges about 2,800 Euros on the same route. This means the airline automatically puts itself up against network carriers.

Since 2014 German holiday carrier Condor has offered an enhanced long haul premium product which it has actually called Business Class.