Yesterday something happened for the first time for me. Myself and a friend were going to board SK973 for CPH-BKK at places 1C/1D, when the SAS officer came to explain that they have some problems with the newly installed seats, and asked if we would like to get bumped for 1000 EUR vouchers each. He even promised business class food. As we will anyway get business class on the way back, and this is paid totally by points, we gladly accepted. Of course maybe we could have been pushed the compensation up a bit, but as likely someone else from C class would have taken the offer.
So right now we are sitting in first row of Economy Extra, places 14A/14B with good legroom and food from behind the curtain, 2000 EUR of free ticket vouchers in pocket! What makes this extra funny is, that the tickets were bought with half points due to some offer.
My only gripes:
- We did have only limited selection of food available
- Service is not business class, so we were missing things like extra drinks rounds, milk or sugar for coffee, the dessert completely
- Due to some electrical problems and one passanger leaving after 1 hour waiting, we took off 2 hours late (ok this had nothing to do with the bump)
All in all, pretty good deal. Anyone got even better?