Originally Posted by peppes
I have found this to the opposite. Around 80% of all my intra European flights I have been upgraded. Maybe this is a OSL thing, but I have found that they easy do it there. Very nice of them.
What??? Which routes do you fly? Which airline?
I fly intra-EU every week and got op-uped a total of 2 times in the last two years, once on LH and once on SK (and that was after an "illegal strike at CPH" disaster, when all flights were overbooked to 110%).
Originally Posted by peppes
This summer, my second trip during the busy summer months I was on my may back to ORF via IAD. When I did the checkin in Oslo I asked if the could put me on the waitlist for economy extra. The very nice checkin lady told me I was already on the list for a upgrade due to over booking and asked me if I liked window or idle. I said idle and I got 3 A on both the OSL-CPH and CPH-IAD. That is how SAS are supposed to handle over bookings.
CPH-IAD is intercontinental (much more likely to be upgraded, almost guaranteed during the summer) and OSL-CPH is one class only so upgrade is meaningless there. By intra-European we normally mean flights between Scandinavia-"Europe outside Scandinavia", have you really got op-uped on 80% of SAS intra-EU flights?