Lufthansa is opening its Tower Lounge for First and Business Class passengers as well as customers with Hon Circle, Senator or frequent traveller status, at the Frankfurt airport by this month end.

Located in the departures area above gate A65, the Tower Lounge offers the customary amenities in a floor area of 1,100 sq. meters (about 12,000 sq. ft.), big enough for up to 288 guests. The bistro area serves a buffet of drinks and a variety of savoury snacks, a soup of the day and a choice of warm or cold sandwiches. Office facilities include separate workstations equipped with complimentary Internet PCs, W-Fi/WLAN access, a fax and copier, credit card payphones and power points to re-charge mobile phones. The lounge also provides five modern showers.

The best part of the lounge for airplane buffs like me; sink into deep leather armchairs and view the apron traffic through the spacious panoramic windows allowing a spectacular view of the tarmac.

The new Lufthansa Tower Lounge replaces the existing Lufthansa Senator and Business Lounge at gate A51.

At a time when the global airline industry is in a tailspin and the premium passengers are moving to the back of the plane in droves, Deutsche Lufthansa has opened an uber-luxurious lounge for its First Class passengers and members of the HON Circle at the new First Class Lounge in Concourse B at Frankfurt Airport. This follows their equally luxurious mega lounge opening at New York's JFK airport in January.

Presenting the lounge as an oasis of calm and relaxation lounge has a spa with extensive bathing area, equipped with six superior-quality shower rooms, two of them with jacuzzi s. For the first time, Lufthansa has introduced two massage rooms in their lounge with a choice of cosmetic treatments and massages.



The new lounge in Concourse B, which has a total floor space of 1,220 square metres, can seat more than 100 guests. With all the business and up-scale amenities including free WLAN access. Quiet rooms, a restaurant and bistro area, bar, and airline services desk are part of the lounge.

Lufthansa has also extended its First Class terminal limousine service, where a limousine transfers passengers to and from "non-aerobridge" aircraft.

Enjoy the images of the lounge. I am drooling.

Frankfurt airport, one of the busiest in the world, was shut down for 50 minutes this morning, due to a technical glitch in its Air Traffic Control.

The airport, was shrouded in fog, and the data transmission from the German weather service and the ATC broke down between 0635 and 0725, as per a spokesman for air traffic control.

This forced a cancellation of all flights in and out.

Airport operator Fraport reports 38 departing flights and 37 arriving flights. 25 flights already in the air, mostly long distance flights en-route to Frankfurt, were diverted to Cologne and Stuttgart airports.

The stoppage, caused significant downstream disruptions which took almost half the day to clear up.