The “rollout” of Lufthansa’s “new” seat product – Allegris, continues to crawl along, with certification set to be granted to 25 out of the 28 seats aboard the Boeing 787-9 in Business Class.
Allegris took flight in its first incomplete form in summer 2024 (with the first class product delayed). This was initially out of Munich with the Airbus A350.
The second deployment of Allegris with their new Boeing 787 at Frankfurt Airport has been a little more troublesome, with the aircraft commencing operation in October 2025, with four business seats out of the whole cabin of 28 available.
After further important milestones in the certification process were reached in recent weeks, nothing now stands in the way of the approval of Allegris Business Class in the Boeing 787-9, except for three seats in the second row of the compartment.
As of today, 25 of a total of 28 seats in Business Class can be booked for travel from 15th April 2026, with bookings open now. According to Runway Girl, the row behind the suites in Row 1 (Row 2 unsurprisingly -seats 2A, 2E and 2K).
Now, the monetised options
Allergis Business Class passengers will have options when booking seats for their flights. Reservations for Classic Seats remain free of charge and offer all the benefits of the Allegris Business Class.
However, if you want some of the expanded options which Lufthansa willbe offering their Allegris Business Class cabin, including:
- Business Class Suite
- The Extra Space Seat with extra legroom,
- The Privacy Seat by the window,
- the Extra Long Bed with a 2.20-meter lying surface)
These will need to be booked in advance via seat reservation for an additional charge.
After all, it’s all about the upsell with Allegris.
In Quotes
Jens Ritter, Chief Executive Officer of Lufthansa Airlines:
“Our guests love Allegris. More than one million passengers have traveled in the new cabin since summer 2024. We are delighted to be able to offer significantly more passengers this top-of-the-range product for bookings from Frankfurt starting today. Allegris is an experience in all classes; the approval of the majority of seats in Business Class on the Boeing 787-9 is an important milestone for Lufthansa – and above all, great news for our customers!”
Rollout
From Frankfurt, the Boeing 787-9 with Allegris will fly to Austin, Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, Cape Town, Shanghai, Hyderabad, and Hong Kong at the start of the summer flight schedule. New York JFK and Los Angeles will be added in June, followed by Delhi in July.
So far, eight aircraft with the new Allegris product stack have entered service and are based at Frankfurt to support their services, with a further 21 due in the delivery pipeline – a total of 29 aircraft by the end of 2027. This includes the 100th Anniversary logojet.
What an Onmishamble
Neologism: A situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterised by a string of blunders and miscalculations. See: The Thick of It (Omnishambles)
It feels we’ve been dancing around the Allegris dance for years, since the announcement of the new business class seats, to the initial plans for Allegris, to multiple botched rollouts of the product (with partial rollouts or seats not available for passenger use) – resulting with an incomplete products in the air and lost revenue as they wait for certifications to be completed.
Even with the Boeing 787-9, offering 25 business seats out of 28 seats is… It’s still going to be embarrassing that they could not work with their supplier and authorities to deliver a complete, working product in time for its new aircraft, meant to lift its passengers in comfort and style.
Yes, it might be the fault of others to get things done in time and failing to ensure all programmes are completed in the timeframes, but to the passenger, it’s Lufthansa making this offering – and currently, it’s an incomplete offering.
And it’s had consequences, with Lufthansa turning to other suppliers for its planned retrofits for its Airbus A380 and cabins for Edelwiess and Discovery Airlines.
For now, Lufthansa will be keeping everything crossed that it can start flying passengers on those seats and recover revenue from April onwards.
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