Originally Posted by SK AAR

Most likely your flight will be cancelled.

Because the moment SAS cancels your flights SAS agents will have to deal with requests for rebooking, refund etc. Better to delay as much as possible by cancelling the flight later on despite that it is closed for sale already and pretty obvious that it will not operate. Nothing new there. I have SK flights to/from JP in Oct which can no longer be book but my reservation still looks OK /is confirmed in CMT (but I already know that the flight will cancelled later on).