After several emails back and forth regarding my complaint about the lack of bicycle delivery, I finally received a response from condor. It was as follows (my paraphrase): sorry. Not our fault. These things happen. We’ll cover your expense for the bicycle box. Thanks for flying condor. We hope to see you again soon. 

Jump ahead approximately two days. Thomas Cooke Travel, the parent company of Condor declares bankruptcy. I’m not saying there’s a correlation here, but it’s certainly some bad karma and a huge mess for travelers and a terrible situation for the thousands of people now out of a job. Condor, for the moment, is still operating, but according to the news they are begging the German government for a “small” loan to tide them over. I would like to suggest they try improving their customer service and see if that doesn’t help them bring in more customers....