SAS EuroBonus - Suggestion earns me 500 points

I posted a suggestion to SAS via their website:

Simply to add seat changes to their potential flurry of text messages that they send me anyway.

The reason for this was that I had a seat change, that was not communicated to me other than by the receipt I got at the gate (I had my boarding pass on my cell phone, with the seat I picked).

I did not complain about the seat change (they don't guarantee seat choices anyway), but I'd have made other plans for the other end if I had known (yes, there is a difference between being in the back or being near the front, when you don't have to wait for luggage, and need to catch a train).

The reply was that if my seat is changed, the gate agent should make sure that I know when I present my boarding pass (she did not, but when I turned back to her and queried, she did look it up). And they poster me 500 miles.

Works for me.

Now I'm wondering how far back I need to go from the front of economy on intra-european flights to actually keep my seat (they moved at least two rows of economy passengers further back)...

DanishFlyer

Now I'm wondering how far back I need to go from the front of economy on intra-european flights to actually keep my seat (they moved at least two rows of economy passengers further back)...


I tend to take second row of economy and it rarely happens that I am kicked back. Perhaps like 5% of flights. Experience based on SK and LO. I do so, when booking. Then, if have time, I sometimes check 2-3 days before flight, or at online check in, to see if I can move myself forward. Quite often it happens that on the route I fly, they actually over reserve for C and EcoExtra. Then they sell more eco tickets and have to "move the curtain".

I guess if you fly on a route where they tend to sell a lot of C and Y+ tickets, you should be more conservative than one row ahead of you.

I tend to take second row of economy and it rarely happens that I am kicked back. Perhaps like 5% of flights. Experience based on SK and LO. I do so, when booking. Then, if have time, I sometimes check 2-3 days before flight, or at online check in, to see if I can move myself forward. Quite often it happens that on the route I fly, they actually over reserve for C and EcoExtra. Then they sell more eco tickets and have to "move the curtain".

I guess if you fly on a route where they tend to sell a lot of C and Y+ tickets, you should be more conservative than one row ahead of you.

I don't have status to pick seat at booking on intra-european flights, only at check-in (22 hours before departure). Even so, it is not normally a problem to get what is at that time 1st row of economy.

Your technique makes sense - I might have to just remember to book the second row, and then check back closer to departure. Good to know that 2nd row usually works. Thanks!

DanishFlyer.