Lufthansa
Lufthansa Overview
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Lufthansa has 1.8 star rating based on 867 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
22% of users would likely recommend Lufthansa to a friend or colleague.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: Non, Ease of booking, Worldwide.
Cons: Customer care center service is horrible, Calls are never answered, Terrible customer service.
The aggregated data is based on reviews and questionnaires provided by PissedConsumer.com users.
Lufthansa has 1.8 star rating based on 867 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
22% of users would likely recommend Lufthansa to a friend or colleague.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: Non, Ease of booking, Worldwide.
Cons: Customer care center service is horrible, Calls are never answered, Terrible customer service.47% of users think that Lufthansa should improve its Customer Service.
42% of users say that they might use Lufthansa in the future for similar services or products if the company resolves their current issue.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Good service once you find the 800 number", "Fly with Lufthansa", "Don't frustrate yourself on line .call CS", "Never flight Lufthansa", "Excellent customer service".
Most users ask Lufthansa for the refund as a solution to their issues.
Consumers are not pleased with Customer service and Exchange, Refund and Cancellation Policy. The price level of this organization is high according to consumer reviews.
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Verified Reviewer |Irrespectful behavior of Austrian Airlines
I have severe problems with your contractor Dolfi, about how they handled a case about a broken suitcase. It is a long story, but the gist is that they did bring the suitcase to a workshop, but did not repair, did not bring back the suitcase to my hotel, did not bring a loan suitcase and did not allow me to buy an new suitcase on their costs.
Therefore, I had to ask the hotel (Graz) to send my luggage by post to my hometown. Dolfi keep saying that they cannot refund the costs (ca 80 euro), and is not open to discuss this issue further, while they put in their system: 'issue resolved'.
I don't think that Australian airlines appreciate this behavior, while the suitcase was broken during an Austrian airlines flight. Austrian airlines do not respond to my query to contact Dolfi, that is why I go higher up, as the ticket was bought by Lufthansa, and Austrian airlines is under Lufthansa's wings.
- Flight service
- Flight planning
- No control over sub contractors
Preferred solution: Full refund
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Verified ReviewerPayment went through but booking did not
I was booking a ticket for flight LH 493 from Vancouver to Dubai, transiting through Frankfurt on the date of 11 September, but unfortunately, payment was deducted from my account and the ticket was not released due to a technical issue. I contacted the operator at the same time, and they told me the payment would be sent back in 7 working days, but I still have not received it yet. Please check and return my payment.
Preferred solution: Full refund
My booking
Found out about luggage and booked my seats. A nice lady helped me, although her accent was hard to understand. Looking forward to our trip.
- Nice and helpful phone lady
User's recommendation: Good service once you find the 800 number
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Verified ReviewerPassport info
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I was trying to upload passport info for an upcoming Lufthansa flight. App would not accept my info.
I called CS only waited 1 min to connect. Apologetic CS person had to input my info on her end...no explanation why the system wouldn't allow me to enter it... computer glitch I guess.
I thought computers were supposed to make life easier. I long for the 50's to return, but alas, just a pipe dream
- Cs answered quickly and spoke understandable english
- Computer system has issues
Preferred solution: Nothing... situation resolved with a phone call to CS
User's recommendation: Don't frustrate yourself on line ..call CS
Did not have an opportunity to fly Lufthansa as trip had to be cancelled. However any contact I had with the company was great.
I had no problem with the company. I hop that in the future I have the opportunity fly with Lufthansa
User's recommendation: Fly with Lufthansa
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Verified ReviewerInquiries about luggage fees
Very quick to answer and dealt with the matter promptly and efficiently. I would certainly commend Lufthansa and their customer service.
- Great customer service
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Verified ReviewerLuftansa is as bad or worse than any US domestic carrier the only way I would fly them again is if they were the only airline servicing that destination, or if I got an incredibly cheap business or fi
I was offered an attractive rate to upgrade my seat and when I selected it and went to pay for the upgrade their app had an error and I couldnt upgrade, I tried their chat, useless they gave me a wrong number to call and when I called the right number I got someone equally useless only this time I had the distinct pleasure of paying the roaming charges on my phone to get useless information from someone who had no way to fix the problem.
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Verified ReviewerComplain
Hello
We have had a very disappointing and disturbing travel day unfortunately. To explain we arrived at Tirana Albania airport at 4 AM for our flight at 6:25 AM to Munich Germany.
While doing check in (in albania) the worker checking us in gave us no boarding pass and no boarding pass was checked in albania to pass thru security. We were very confused about that and asked someone and they said dont worry about it . We continued and went on to our flight to germany. We arrived in munich germany at 8:20 we went to the gate that we saw on the screen because we had no boarding pass to check what gate we were.
We stayed at the gate for about 2 hours till 11 we didint get food water nothing because we were scared of losing our flight. We are students in Toronto and we are not financially good to be booking another flight so we were very scared of anything going wrong. We went to the washroom because we had been sitting there for 2 hours while walking and waiting at the gate so many announcements were going off in the airport about other flights we didint hear anything for our flight so we thought maybe it was delayed.. We got to the washroom and as soon as we got in we hear an announcement saying please any people left from flight to toronto please come we will be closing shortly.
We ran and got there at 11:10 the Lufthansa workers took our passports and said oh your here perfect we were about to go inside and one of the Lufthansa/ Air canada workers came and screamed at us and said you are not coming on this flight we were very confused and asked why the plane doesent board for another 45 minutes she started being very rude and sarcastic saying thats not my problem and saying i dont care and telling us to shut up when asking her if we could please get on our flight. She screamed again saying NO . Then proceeded to be rude and said do you not have money get another ticket. she absolutely did not let us on and we had absolutely no money to buy a new flight and were stuck in germany we called the police to come to help us and those ladys were making up things saying we were being aggressive when we absolutely were not we were being very respectful and the Lufthansa workers were not .
We dont have a lot of money we payed 1350 for those tickets and we didint even go on the plane and lost that money we worked hard for to save from one person not having a good day and putting it on us . Its truly not fair and were very upset . We have been taking your airline Air Canada/ lufthansa forever and have never had any problems expect this time, We hopefully would like to get a refund on the tickets for the plane we didint go on because money is tight and none of this should have happened. The air canada workers that did this to us were laughing in our face and smiling saying ur not getting on while the airplane doors and everything was still open .
I dont understand how our luck for someone to take their own personal feelings for us to lose money like that is fair.
Please i would like to continue using this airline and am asking if a refund is possible thank you! AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE PICTURE THEY DID NOT LET US IN THE FLIGHT BUT THE LADY IN FRONT OF US WAS LET IN.
- Calm flight
- Staff is very rude and does not ever help people
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: Never use lufthansa ever. Very rude staff and very racist. You only get good treatment if you are white
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Verified ReviewerZGŁOSZENIE USZKODZENIA WALIZKI
Bardzo proszę o informacje jak mam zgłosić mailowo bagaż uszkodzony .Pani na lotnisku przyjęła i prosiła o kontakt z Państwem w tej sprawie. Numer zgłoszenia BIOLH13975 Panus Anna
Preferred solution: Full refund
Bought ticket 12th of July by mistake and want to ask for cancelling
No one answered may I ask to receive call from you?
It did not came any sound from call,
Thank you in advance
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Verified ReviewerSays I can rebook for "no additional fee" but want to charge another 1,700 Euros to book
I have again tried to 'rebook' my flight with the same results - there has been no resolution, nor has there been an explanation of why the flight is so much more expensive than posted flights on the webpage... I've pretty much resigned myself to having to just acknowledge that they've stolen my money and having to wait until 2026 to go visit my grandkids... Sad and frustrated and just a bit angry too...
There has been no resolution from Luthansa - basically they have said I can use the funds that I paid for my ticket to rebook a new flight with "no rebooking fees or penalties" but I have tried twice now to book a new flight and both times, they've wanted to charge over 1,500 Euros extra - no one can give me a reason why, other than "this is just the way the system works" - the staff on calls tell me there are no supervisors or other recourse, except for contacting the "back office" and then there won't give me any contact details for the back office other than the websie form.I haven't been able to go back to the States and see my grandchildren for several years, since I live on fixed income and have to save for around a year to buy a ticket for the next year - so this means if I can't get any resolution from Lufthansa then it will probably be two years until I can get back again. I could understand paying a few extra Euros to purchase a new ticket, but honestly, for the price they're charging me, I could almost book a business class ticket...
Totally unacceptable.Best resolution would be either full-refund of the ticket price (into my bank account) or a voucher for the full amount, which I could use toward a new ticket of my choosing. The biggest problem is that I have a verbal OK from Lufthansa (and "it's in the computer") but I have nothing in writing.Thanks for listening...
I attempted to rebook for April 2025 but was told I'd need to pay an additional 1,700 Euros, despite the same flights online costing 2,137 Euros (including refund and rebooking - which my original ticket did not include).
After spending over 1.5 hours on the phone with two representatives, I was told there's no recourse except to email the 'back office.' Since my initial phone contact, I have sent 3 emails and completed the online contact form but have had no response, which I believe displays poor customer service. I hope for a refund or at least a fair resolution.
- Nice people at check-in
- People on phone were pleasant and nice
- Good airline crew
- Corporate does not respond
- When told there is no rebooking fee and they charge more
- There is no recourse if solution is unacceptable
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: Do not use Lufthansa - they are corporate thieves
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Verified ReviewerFraudulent | Flight Cancellation and Refund
Lufthansa's representatives keep telling me they can't refund me for the money of a flight that's never ever been used... that is a fraudulent statement, because it never happens that a company gets paid for a service never rendered!I am seriously considering a class action/lawsuit against Lufthansa, together with other unhappy consumers.
What a horrible experience with Lufthansa... their policies, their unprofessional and unethical conduct and their poor customer service are truly something else...!They also dared to ask me to consider them as a possible company for my future flights: never!This is verbatim the lame answer I received:" Thank you for your recent inquiry to us regarding your pending claim.
We deeply regret that our previous response did not meet your expectations of us. We have taken this opportunity to reevaluate the entirety of your request in hopes of contributing to an overall positive experience with Lufthansa. We are not trying to withhold any refund that is owed to you. However, the tickets you purchased with us are our non-refundable fare.
The refund requested is a voluntary refund as no irregularity in your itinerary occurred. Therefore, we are unable to issue a further refund as the maximum amount allotted has already been issued. We know that this is not the response you were hoping to receive, however, we do hope that we have your understanding in this regard. We would also like to note that this decision is final and hence forth, we consider this request closed.
Despite this recent experience with us, we truly hope that we can welcome our mutual passengers on board an exemplary Lufthansa flight in the near future. Sincerely,
On October 16th, 2024, we were immediately informed about the fact that Lufthansa is not entirely trusted as a company because of some prior negative experiences (lost luggage, delays, etc.), so we immediately called the Lufthansa service in order to cancel the flights. Since then, we have repeatedly tried to get in touch with a human representative and, this morning, for the first time, a physical representative on the phone told us the total refundable amount is basically $200 for both flights. We already booked the flights with another airline, so Lufthansa will be able to resell those flights to anyone else. Being refunded $200 on a total of $14,334.82 is borderline fraudulent and criminal, therefore we asked Lufthansa to reconsider their insulting proposal before bringing the case to court.
We were open to accepting other alternative types of refund (vouchers, cards, etc.), but the idea of losing fourteen thousand dollars when we know the flight company is able to recoup their money by selling the same flight again is something that we cannot morally abide by. We tried to write (based on the Lufthansa's representative by phone) directly to their Customer Service by email, but it seems the recipient is unknown!
- No pros
- Basically everything starting with their service
Preferred solution: Full refund
Flight cancelation
The flight was canceled, and I had to pay hotel and meals that the airline refused to refund. The answer to my claim was rude and unfair.
User's recommendation: Never flight Lufthansa
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Verified ReviewerSerious complaints
I booked a return ticket from Manchester to portharcourt Nigeria and back to Manchester on the 22nd of July 2024.My going was smooth on the 20th of October,but my coming back was bad on the 5th of November.I was to fly from portharcourt to transit frankfurt and Munich and to my final destination Manchester airport.While checking in portharcourt airport,I was told that I could not go through Munich because I had no transit visa and they directed me to ticketing office so they could enable re route me back to my destination. I was charged a sum of N694,999 Nigerian currency which I paid with receipts given to my surprise an email was sent to me by Amadeus IT group for a receipt of N283,080 by then I had checked in to board for my flight.
I am seriously amazed with the difference in payment and receipts.
I got to frankfurt and I was advised to write my complaint to luftansa customer service for reconciliation.
My booking no is :641587**** from esky and the listing agent from Amadeus it group no:1856FSFSSU.
Kindly find attached of my receipts paid in cash and resolve my complaint or I sue Luftansa for fraud.
Thanks
Okechukwu Nwogu.
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Verified ReviewerChange of flight
They did very good job for my flight Im very happy with the customer service I will referred to other family to
User's recommendation: Excellent customer service
Flight
I have never been so stressed in my life about flying and at the end of my journey had to get support from police as I was in distress and upset
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Lufthansa is ranked 146 out of 1014 in Airlines and Air Transport category
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