This is an incredible video of a German Airbus landing at SFO. 800 plus passengers.
The pilots sit away from everything, no yoke, etc. Captain pulls up a keyboard once in a while to enter info but the plane does most of the work.
Pilot's View: Airbus A380 approach and landing at San Francisco. [VIDEO]
The yoke is actually the joysticks off to the side in an AirBus, you can see the pilot using them at the end when they turn auto-pilot off for approach (although, that plane can actually do a complete landing on autopilot, but that's not new).
Lufthansa is one of my favorite airlines to fly:
1) Great service and seating - the flight attendants aren't lazy. On US carriers after the lights go off, the flight attendants just take up space. On Lufthansa, they actually do something: Check the cabin, see if anyone needs something, clean, etc.
2) The planes are always extremely clean and well maintained (Lufthansa Technik even does the B and C checks for other airlines, their used airplanes go for significantly more because of this)
3) The pilots are always on time, or if there is a delay they'll be hard on why. We've been in takeoff que and I've heard things like "We pushed back from the gate on time, but the airport has delayed us due to poor traffic handling" (in german accent) and such lol, they're used to that German efficiency. Like 2 minutes later than they expect and they'll be telling you why lol.
Probably flown Lufthansa over 100 times.
Highly recommended.
I fly Miami -> Frankfurt often, they take off at 4pm EST... like CLOCKWORK.
