Sometimes the flight upgrades can be caught at a reasonable price. I got an offer for an upgrade to business class on a short Lufthansa intra-European flight, for only 55€. Took it. Got a nice meal and space for it, when tourist class would have been packed.
At a different flight, when returning, I struggled to get the same upgrade. There was an offer for 110€ which I wanted, but it always failed upon payment. Of course the Lufthansa systems were at fault, they couldn't see upgrades expect at the check-in by this time, just before flight. But why wouldn't the offering web application know this? Sigh... lots to improve in airline IT systems :-)
And, since I had combined two flights, my earlier flight was on Finnair. I turned out that I had been voluntarily upgrade by Finnair, one of the rare (3-4 times out of thousands). Nice!
Lufthansa, the lounge in Frankfurt and the meals:
On a later flight this is what I got:
Finnair:
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