SEASONAL OCCASIONS
Oktoberfest
We’re bringing the spirit of Oktoberfest to our lounges and on board flights between Germany and Dubai with special food and drinks. Join our version of the world’s largest folk festival from 20 September to 5 October 2025.
Start the celebration at our airport lounges
Join us for light bites and savoury snacks at our lounges in Munich, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Hamburg.
Enjoy our traditional käsespätzle with melted cheese and fried onions. Or try the tasty obazda cheese with radish and mini pretzels. Also on the menu is freshly baked pretzels, roasted chicken and chicken sausages with chocolate coated strawberries and grapes as a sweet treat.
Taste a celebratory feast in the skies
Start your meal of chicken filled mushrooms with a poached Alaskan king crab and cap it off with a kaiserschmarren in First Class. In Business Class, enjoy a duck liver terrine with veal bacon as an appetiser to your braised beef short ribs main and baked cheesecake dessert. Our savoury chicken sausage roll served with onion jus, mashed potatoes and sauerkraut await you in Economy Class with a black forest cake for dessert.
In First Class, you’ll enjoy a sweet gingerbread biscuit heart to take along with you.
Find special treats at our Onboard Lounge
Celebrate Oktoberfest the German way in the A380 Onboard Lounge on flights between Germany and Dubai. Bite into soft pretzels, Bavarian and Arabic pastries and gingerbread hearts with a special selection of sandwiches. And don’t miss out on the krapfen with vanilla custard to share in our social areas. .
Enjoy your festive meal with a movie
Choose from up to 6,500 channels of entertainment with 20 German movies, including Köln 75, Ein Mädchen namens Willow, Red Stars Upon the Field and Die Beste zum Schluss. We also have over 350 Hollywood hits dubbed in German, from How to Train Your Dragon, Elio and Materialists, to MEGAN 2.0, Final Destination: Bloodlines, Sinners and Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Or check out 31 playlists and albums of German music..
Oktoberfest in Germany
While Munich is the original and most popular destination for Oktoberfest, you can join the world’s largest volksfest in many cities throughout Germany.
What is Oktoberfest?
The longest wedding reception ever, the first Oktoberfest was held in 1810 to celebrate the marriage of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig to Princess Therese of Saxony‑Hildburghausen. The royal family invited all the citizens of Munich to join in the festivities – because as they say, the more the merrier. The celebration lasted five days with contests, games, food and drinks.
Products and services may vary on actual flights depending on routes, aircraft configuration and seasonality. Operational requirements may also cause last-minute changes to the aircraft used on scheduled flights.