Here are my last SK flights
April 21. CPH-ORD Economy Extra, Op up
May 4. CPH-ORD Economy Extra, used 10.000 points, got 14 B, they blocked out A
May 9. EWR-CPH Business, Op up (as usual...Newark lounge girls rule!)
May 13. CPH-ORD Economy for the first time since the Airbus came!!
I want to tell you about my experience on Friday May 13th.. At check in at OSL, they told me the flight was oversold and to contact the gate as soon as i landed.
I expected an Op up
Headed out to the US flight area and got in line.
They were calling up for people to do denied boarding and a lot of young people agreed to wait one day for 300/600 euro, hotel and food. At the same time they were upgrading people to C on points
Didnt make sense.
I was behind two Danes, don’t know their status, the lady said C was almost full, but if they wanted to wait, they might upgrade on points. I said I wanted to do the same. We all sat down, and after 5 minutes, the first guy cleared. They both boarded, I guess the other guy gave up. So I waited and 15 minutes before departure time, a seat cleared! I walked up to the counter, and the lady said she had to go onboard the plane and ask the other guy if he wanted the seat.
After 10 minutes she came back, of course he wanted the seat.
There were only 2 people left, me and a young girl with no status and a "seat at gate" boarding pass. She got the ugraded guys seat and we boarded together. To my surprise, she got a seat in Economy Extra, no status, no points!!
I headed to my seat 32F, next to a family with an infant with no seat!!
I got up and went to the front of the plane and waited for the boarding personnel to come. I pulled him aside and told him what happened. He said he was very sorry and the only thing I could do was to write SAS....
The flight I usually take from OSL-CPH lands at 14:30, an hour before the ORD flight, it takes 15 minutes to get from B term to C, through passport control. By the time I got there, the upgrades and moving around was already almost done. And there were a lot of EBS and non status upgraded on points.
I always thought they knew about incoming EBGs and they waited to do all moves until they had arrived. I guess not.
In SKs defence, this has never happened to me before, that GA needs to clean planes for a month.