I was wondering this too. Could it be me among those flyers, who is ex LH FT and now changed to SK? Take a DY (Norwegian) flight from Helsinki, there you can hear the first time flyers, not that they look like as them. Anyway good report about your experience.

April 2013, SK984 at NRT gate; there were 9 pax who were upgraded at the gate. But I cannot say, were those upgrades by EB points or * status. As Iīm new to EB I went to ask points upgrade, it could have been done right away, but I was missing 100 points... I think some were opupīs as Go was full.