Lufthansa Allegris business class: five seats, what the fees buy, and the routes for winter and summer

Source: Lufthansa Group

Because the Classic Seat is free on every business fare except Business Light, the fee never buys Allegris itself. It buys one thing: a door, more room, the window or a longer bed. If none of those matters to you, the free seat is the whole product.

Every one of the five has direct access to the aisle, a seat shell at least 114 cm (45 in) high, seat heating and cooling, a 10-inch tablet that controls the seat, lighting and entertainment, a 4K screen, wireless charging and a Bluetooth link for your own devices.

Who should not pay for a seat

• Two people travelling together. The two Classic Seats in the centre of the last row open into a space for two, and the Classic Seat is the free one.
• HON Circle members. Every business seat except the Suite is already free for them.
• One adult with two children under 12. The Suite cannot be booked at all in that case.
• Anyone on a route that appears on only one of Lufthansa’s two lists. Wait until the seat map of your own flight shows the Allegris seats.

Source: Lufthansa Group

Seats can be reserved up to 52 hours before departure. Passengers without a reservation are given a remaining seat free of charge, at check-in at the latest.

If a rebooking or a change of aircraft type takes away the seat category you paid for, Lufthansa Group’s booking page for travel agents says the fee “can be refunded in most instances” and does not list the exceptions. Lufthansa Group’s seat reservation factsheet for travel agents is firmer: if the original seat characteristic cannot be provided, the passenger “is entitled to” a refund of the reservation.

Source: Lufthansa Group

In June 2026, ten A350-900s and twelve Boeing 787-9s flew Allegris in scheduled service. On the 787-9, Lufthansa said on 16 March 2026 that 25 of the 28 Allegris Business seats were certified (first flight 15 March); an earlier release, of 24 February, had said all but three second-row seats would be bookable from 29 March. Lufthansa has not said since whether those three are certified.

Its first A350-1000, with Allegris, was handed over on 10 November 2026 and is due to fly its first scheduled service, Munich to Tokyo Haneda, on 3 December 2026. On that route it will alternate with the A350-900, and Lufthansa says Shanghai and Singapore follow in the weeks after. Lufthansa said in June 2026 that the 777-9 would start flying with Allegris “in the course of next year”.

The new First Class flies only on the A350 to and from Munich. That applies to Allegris First Class; it says nothing about First Class on Lufthansa’s other aircraft.

Lufthansa publishes two Allegris lists for this winter, and they do not match. The list for travel agents is dated 19 May 2026, is subject to change and promises more winter destinations later. The list on Lufthansa’s customer website covers the winter schedule from 25 October 2026 to 28 March 2027, is also subject to change and carries no date of its own. In the tables, “Listed” means the route is named without a date.

Frankfurt, Boeing 787-9: 21 destinations on each list, 19 on both

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Munich, Airbus A350: 13 destinations on the travel agent list, 11 on the customer website, 10 on both

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Eight routes appear on one list only: Detroit, Chennai, Los Angeles, São Paulo and Dubai on the travel agent list, Chicago from Frankfurt, Delhi and Boston on the customer website. Neither page says which is right. The customer website also narrows several routes that the travel agent list names without limit: Austin and Denver “except in February”, New York (JFK) from February, Washington in March 2027 only.

On the travel agent list, São Paulo and Dubai carry the only frequency note: Allegris once a week, with aircraft not yet fitted with Allegris on the other days. The absence of a note elsewhere is not a promise of Allegris on every flight: Lufthansa’s summer 2026 lists warned that aircraft without Allegris also flew some listed routes.

Summer 2027

The travel agent page says only that the summer 2027 schedule will be published shortly. The customer website already carries a summer list, for the schedule from 29 March to 24 October 2027, under the same “subject to change” line as the winter one. The table separates destinations listed without a month limit from those listed for part of the season only.

Summer 2027 on Lufthansa’s customer website: 10 destinations from Munich, 31 from Frankfurt

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Six of the ten Munich destinations are marked “until the end of May”, and the page does not say which aircraft flies them after that. Two of them also appear from Frankfurt: Seoul from June, New York (JFK) without a limit. Compared with the winter list on the same site, Munich drops Miami, Boston, Washington and Cape Town and adds San Francisco, Seoul and Beijing; Frankfurt drops Dallas/Fort Worth and Vancouver and adds Boston, Washington, New York (JFK), Los Angeles, Montréal, Columbus, Almaty, Astana, Chennai, Shanghai, Nagoya and Tokyo-Narita. Houston is on the English, French, Spanish and Italian versions of the page but not on the German one.

On the Allegris overview page, Lufthansa presents four Frankfurt routes as summer 2027 news, and its network news for travel agents dates three of them: Tokyo-Narita daily from 28 March 2027 (the day before the customer list’s summer schedule begins), Nagoya three times a week from 29 March 2027 and Columbus three times a week from 5 May 2027. Kuala Lumpur stays daily through the summer. Those news items do not mention Allegris, and Lufthansa does not say whether every flight on these routes will have it.

1. Open the seat map before you pay. Lufthansa says the seat can be chosen at the time of booking, and that in many booking channels the Allegris seat map sets out the seat options, with a photo gallery. The five seat names in the table above are what to look for. Lufthansa’s public pages describe no other marker for an Allegris flight.
2. Compare the route with both lists. A route on both lists, with no month restriction, is the firmer case. A route on one list only is not. For summer 2027 there is only the customer list so far, so check the month notes against your travel date.
3. Check the long-haul flight. If you connect through Frankfurt or Munich, the feeder flight tells you nothing.
4. Look again before you travel. Aircraft change. Seats can be reserved until 52 hours before departure. If the category you paid for disappears, ask for the refund: Lufthansa Group’s booking page for travel agents says the fee can be refunded in most instances.

Lufthansa Group also publishes downloadable seat plans for the A350-900 and the 787-9 on its travel agent page, which show where each seat type sits.

No Allegris flight starts in Britain: the cabin flies only to and from Frankfurt and Munich, so from the UK it is the long-haul flight after the connection that counts. Lufthansa’s UK route pages show a direct flight to both hubs from London, Manchester, Birmingham and Edinburgh, with these weekly frequencies:

Source: Lufthansa route pages, read 11 November 2026

Lufthansa notes that some flights sold on its website are operated by partner airlines, so not every one of these is necessarily a Lufthansa aircraft. At Heathrow, Lufthansa operates from Terminal 2, where the airport lists a Lufthansa Senator Lounge after security. Manchester Airport also puts Lufthansa in Terminal 2.

Lufthansa’s UK website carries the same Allegris lists as its German one, apart from the summer Houston entry the German page leaves out, and gives the seat measurements in both centimetres and inches. What it does not give is a fixed seat fee, in pounds or any other currency: the price appears in the booking.

How much does it cost to reserve an Allegris business seat?

The Classic Seat is free on every business fare except Business Light. For the other four, Lufthansa publishes no fixed price: it depends on route length, status, fare and booking channel, and the amount appears in the booking. HON Circle members pay only for the Suite; Senators pay nothing for the Classic Seat, the Extra Space Seat or the Privacy Seat.

What is Lufthansa Allegris?

Allegris is the name of Lufthansa’s new long-haul cabin, which runs from First Class to Economy Class. In business class it means the five seat types above, on the A350 from Munich and the 787-9 from Frankfurt.

What Lufthansa flights have Allegris?

Long-haul flights to and from Frankfurt on the 787-9 and to and from Munich on the A350, on the routes in the tables above. Only the seat map of your own flight confirms it, and on some routes only some flights have it.

What is the seat layout on Lufthansa’s Boeing 787-9?

In Allegris business class the 787-9 has 28 seats, each with direct aisle access. The seat plan Lufthansa Group offers for download on its travel agent page shows where each of the five seat types sits. Lufthansa’s public pages do not state the seat pattern; the downloadable plan is the place to see it.

Is Lufthansa business class the same as First Class?

No. Allegris First Class is a separate cabin, offered only on the A350 to and from Munich. Business class is the five-seat cabin this page describes.

Which business class is better, Lufthansa or British Airways?

This page does not rank them. What compares directly is the door: the Allegris Suite has closable doors, and British Airways Club Suite: the door, and the aircraft that have it sets out which British Airways aircraft have one.