It's a pleasure to be here.

Yes, you are right, this flight was not typical. I do think there were some systemic errors in how the full departure was handled, though. Specifically stowing the carry-ons (not hard to predict that this will be a problem on a full flight, no reason to let it cause a delay) and the completely disorganized F&B service. I so happens that I have another SK flight coming up in a couple of hours, and it looks like it is going to be full to the rafters again. I shall report my experiences here.

Does that go for *Alliance Golds too? I've had a free middle seat next to me on just about every SK flight I've taken except for the completely full ones. I thought I was just lucky.

My tickets are booked through a corporate TA, and for some reason I'm always automatically pre-assigned an aisle seat in the first row of Go. Needless to say, I then always get seat-shifted to a row further back, but usually still the first in Go. Occasionally, my assignment gets lost, like on today's flight. I was originally in 2C, but when I OCLI'd the seat was gone. Still managed to get the first row of Go, which at least gives me a tiny theoretical chance of catching the first train home.

Sounds fair enough to me.

Unless the middle seat is free, an upgrade to Plus would really not bring any advantages. Nothing to hope for, therefore.

Absolutely, even during a home invasion it is superior.

I guess that's so, but if they go to the trouble of announcing priority boarding, then it would make sense to enforce it too.

On a short flight like AMS-CPH it is a toss-up beween KL economy and SK Go. I just go by schedule and pick the flight with the departure time that suits me best.

Johan