Originally Posted by
Storizontal Habilizer
I have a bit of a problem with crediting SAS to Flying Blue (nothing to do with the current business class vs premium saga):
I took a couple of SAS flights in October, there were booked in Economy and I have a boarding pass stating the booking class to be SAS Go (Class M-r). Flying Blue refuse to credit these flights, stating that they are booked in class "R", which according to the Flying Blue earnings table for SAS indeed is a non-eligible booking class.
To be clear, my boarding pass is stating the booking class to be "M" with a large capital letter, followed by a tiny "R" underneath it. If never seen something like this before, but my assumption is that the capital "M" would be the dominating letter here, and thus, an eligible booking class.
This was a corporate booking, so the reservation confirmation itself contains nothing but "Economy".
Any thoughts/ideas?
Originally Posted by
Xandrios
Some airlines indicate the cabin by use of a letter. Often this is Y for Economy (even though the fare class in the booking may be different). However KLM uses M to indicate Economy. I believe the same may hold true for SAS. It sounds like these have been booked in R, unfortunately..
Indeed, the big M on boarding pass indicates the general cabin class, ie economy. The small R indicates the booking class. So Flying Blue is correct in their statement that you were booked in a non earning booking class.
Lufthansa, Japan Airlines, and ANA are other examples I can think of doing it the same way. Big letter for cabin, smaller letter for actual booking class.