We are less than a month away from the Miles & More loyalty program tying redemption prices to revenue prices. Will this practically mark the end of using miles for Lufthansa First Class award space?

My Fear That We Are In the Final Days Of Lufthansa First Class Awards

On June 3, 2025, Lufthansa will move to dynamic pricing on Austrian, Lufthansa, and SWISS flights. While award space will still be capacity-controlled, pricing is expected to precipitously rise, particularly for business and first class seats.

Thus far, we have been given no insight as to how Miles & More will calculate prices other than promising a correlation to the revenue price of the ticket and a warning that premium cabin longhaul seats may cost “significantly more miles.”

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I’ll be traveling to Germany soon to visit my wife’s family and the thought has continually crossed my mind whether I should take Lufthansa First Class if I can get it. After all, it’s been a few years now since my family flew in Lufthansa First Class together (a lovely journey from San Francisco to Frankfurt with a tragic self-inflicted ending) and while I’d love to fly Allegris (and I will!), I still love the “old” first class.

There’s a bit of urgency here, because my prediction (though I hope I’m wrong) is that after June 3, 2025, partners like Air Canada Aeroplan or United MileagePlus will no longer have access to first class award seats. I fear that because Miles & More says it will still tie first class award availability to the O Class fare bucket, but I cannot imagine Miles & More charging hundreds of thousands of miles for a transatlantic first class award redemption while the same flight is still available for only 100K Aeroplan miles.

Furthermore, Miles & More has already restricted SWISS First Class awards to Miles & More Senator and HON Circle members (the two highest status tiers), thus setting a precedent for the restriction of first class awards. My hunch is that Miles & More will place Lufthansa First Class awards in the same category.

With that dour prediction in mind, I’m very tempted to jump on a flight (preferably an A380 flight since I have not been on a Lufthansa A380 since before the pandemic) prior to June 3rd, even though there’s very little time in my busy schedule. I’ll be monirong award space and if by miraculous chance award space opens for the family…I’m going to grab it.

Do you think my fears are overblown and reasonably-priced Lufthansa partner redemptions will continue beyond June 3, 2025?