Choosing The Right Flight For An International Backpacking Trip

The right ingredient for a good backpacking trip is perfect preparation. Everything from your choice of flight to the food, you carry on a trip, matter. A flight taking-off and landing on perfect time are as relevant as the choice of nutritious inflight meals when you’re flying.

Last summer, I flew with Lufthansa for my 2 week trip to Stuttgart to go and back pack around the city and nearby places. I’d booked my tickets on a Lufthansa flight for a few reasons:

1. Service Matters: Whether it is inflight hospitality by the cabin crew on a long international flight or the fact that the flight takes off and lands on perfect time so that you may keep all your appointments, airline services matter.  With Lufthansa comes an assurance of unbelievable flight service and punctuality throughout the destinations they fly to.

2. Cost Effectiveness: On most international flights, there is always complaint about a lack of space in coach class even after spending a lot of money. Personally, I’ve been most comfortable on Lufthansa economy flights as they fit my budget and are also spacious enough to be very comfortable. The flight tickets that I booked for Stuttgart were during one of Lufthansa’s ticket discount sales and I saved up a lot of money on my budget to spend on other things.

3. Creative Initiatives: All service based businesses look for ways to be fun and relevant to their customers. I, personally, think that Lufthansa’s try at being more relatable to India, through the More Indian Than You Think initiative, is brilliant! I got what was expected on my flight (which I’d heard from a lot of sources as well): a choice from fine Indian cuisine and a selection of very engaging inflight entertainment for passengers. It may seem trivial, but an initiative just focussed on a certain people shows the amount of care that went into planning it.

As is ever important, I made sure to look-up and follow all the rules regarding carrying backpacking items (such as portable stoves and lights) meticulously, as is expected in the international guidelines.

Keeping the perfect preparation situation in mind, I booked flight tickets, hotels and tours a few months in advance for my backpacking trip and double checked, over mail, with Lufthansa of the things I was legally allowed to carry on a flight.

Mentally at ease, the strict preparation made for a good inflight and backpacking experience!