{"id":388351,"date":"2026-03-17T15:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lufthansa-premium-light-fares-outrage-elite-perks\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:53:20","slug":"lufthansa-goes-premium-light-unbundled-fares-spark-outrage-as-elite-perks-are-stripped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=388351","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa Goes Premium &#8216;Light&#8217;: Unbundled Fares Spark Outrage As Elite Perks Are Stripped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German flag carrier <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255195\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/lufthansa\/\"  >Lufthansa<\/a><\/span> has decided it will unbundle its premium and business class fares with the introduction of Premium Economy Light and Business Class Light. From March 17, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/travel-dealz.com\/news\/lufthansa-group-premium-business-light\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Travel-Dealz<\/a>, both new fare offerings will be available and will see reduced baggage allowances, a cost for seat selection, the introduction of higher change fees, and some refunds will not be possible. These airfares are set to be introduced across <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255195\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/lufthansa\/\"  >Lufthansa<\/a><\/span>, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"124752\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/swiss-international-airlines\/\"  >Swiss International Airlines<\/a><\/span>, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255573\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/austrian-airlines\/\"  >Austrian Airlines<\/a><\/span>, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255740\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/discover-airlines\/\"  >Discover Airlines<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"7827\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/brussels-airlines\/\"  >Brussels Airlines<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lufthansa&#8217;s decision to unbundle its premium and business class fares has sparked outrage among frequent fliers, who are used to these elite perks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,5710,1899,120,734,5145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airfares","category-baggage-allowance","category-europe","category-lufthansa","category-star-alliance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388351"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388544,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388351\/revisions\/388544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}