FRA Terminal 1 Lufthansa Senator Lounge

It’s our first stop before boarding a Lufthansa 747 for a nine-hour flight  to Beijing.

After a long layover at PEK, we board a four-hour China Southern flight to Haikou (HAK).

We’re not precisely sure that everything has been worked out between Hainan and China Southern, but we have six hours on the ground at PEK and hopefully there will be no major hitches.

There we have another awkward layover before boarding a nine-hour Hainan flight to Sydney, landing around noon local time, about 10,000 miles and 33 hours after taking off from Frankfurt.

At the gate...

The upper deck - our favorite place in the sky...

Unlike United’s 744s, this one has overheads as well as the storage bins under the window. Everything fits.

Lots of room for our feet as well...