Advance seat reservation for Economy Class passengers

The preferred seating zone is located in front of Economy Class, directly behind Business or Premium Economy Class. These seats enable you to leave the aircraft quickly after landing, making your journey even easier and more flexible.

Seats in the emergency exit rows can only be booked for passengers who meet the following requirements:

• You are at least 16 years old.
• You are fluent in the German or English language.
• You are willing to provide assistance in the unlikely event of an emergency.
• You are capable of reading and understanding instructions and of complying with the orders of the crew in the event of an emergency.
• You are able to carry out the instructed tasks without the help of a companion, parent or other relative.
• You are not travelling with a person who would be dependent on your help in the event of an emergency.
• You have no condition or position of responsibility that would restrict you from carrying out these tasks or would lead to bodily harm in their execution.
• You are not travelling with a small animal in the flight cabin.

In order to ensure safety on board, Lufthansa may allocate a different seat to passengers who do not meet these requirements.

Please also note that any carry-on baggage must be stowed in overhead bins as no items may be put in the seating area or under the seats during take-off and landing.

In Economy Class Lufthansa offers the opportunity to reserve seats with extra legroom on almost all aircraft types. These seats offer at least ten centimetres of extra legroom. Some of these seats are located in the emergency exit rows. You can find their exact location on the seat map.

​View seat map

You can rebook or cancel your flight ticket with an existing advance seat reservation easily and conveniently yourself on ​My bookings. If you have paid for an advance seat reservation on the flight you wish to change, Lufthansa will automatically try to book you an equivalent seat on the new flight. Please note that fees already paid for advance seat reservations cannot be reimbursed if there are no equivalent seats available on the new flight.

Should you wish to cancel your flight, fees paid for an advance seat reservation will be automatically taken into account and, where applicable, reimbursed in accordance with the ticket fare conditions stated.

The fee for an advance seat reservation that has already been paid for can be reimbursed in the following cases:

• if Lufthansa changes a flight itinerary or aircraft type and no equivalent seat is available on the new flight.
• if, because of a flight disruption, you are compelled to book a new flight, on which your chosen seat is not available.
  

You can request your reimbursement in the lufthansa.com service area under ​My bookings or via the ​Lufthansa Service Center, but not directly at the airport nor on board. Please contact Lufthansa as soon as possible to request any reimbursements.

Fees paid for advance seat reservations cannot be reimbursed if:

• you cancel a non-refundable flight.
  
• you have received an upgrade from Lufthansa as a goodwill gesture or for operational reasons.
  
• you change your seat, but the new seat is cheaper or free of charge.
  
• you buy a new seat in a more expensive category.
• you do not meet the requirements listed above for sitting in an emergency exit row.
  
• you make changes to your trip, but on your new flight, no equivalent seats are available, seat reservations on your new flight are free of charge, or this flight is not operated by Lufthansa, Lufthansa Regional or Austrian Airlines.
  
• you make changes to your trip and thus alter your route.