Lufthansa is one of the major players in the first class market and has invested heavily in both the onboard product and supporting ground infrastructure.

First class is now available on nearly all Lufthansa’s long-haul flights. The Sleeper seat, standard across the fleet, converts to a fully flat bed with a width of 20.5 inches (54cm).

Lufthansa's new first class product on its fleet of Airbus A380s is in an open plan style with a fully flat bed which is 81" long and 31.5" wide. This will be retrofitted on its older aircraft.

However this new product was not a good fit for the carrier's B747-400s, so capacity was reduced from 16 to eight with the aisle seat remaining and a supplementary fully flat bed in place of the window seat. This product is being installed across the entire 747 fleet.

On board the A330s and A340s is a 1-2-1 configuration with a pitch of 84 inches (213cm).

Lufthansa has a dedicated First Class Terminal (FCT) at its Frankfurt base and a corresponding lounge at Munich. Services at the FCT include a personal assistant to take care of check-in, private bathrooms and a limousine transfer to the aircraft.

Lufthansa Media World, an AVOD in-flight entertainment system, is available in business and first class. Options include a wide selection of movies, 100 CDs, audiobooks, radio programmes, computer games and language courses.