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Old Mar 25, 2013, 7:54 am
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Optiontown - Upgrade on SK flights
SAS Scandinavian Airlines offers, via partner Optiontown, all customers the opportunity to purchase an upgrade on SK operated flights, which will be confirmed 72-24 hours prior to departure, pending on seat availability.

SAS Go passengers can purchase an upgrade to SAS Plus on all flights and to SAS Business class on SAS’s intercontinental flights between Scandinavia, the US and Asia, while SAS Plus passengers also can buy an upgrade to SAS Business class on intercontinental flights.
Booking class Europe: A (SAS Plus)
Booking classes Intercontinental: Z (Business) and P (SAS Plus)
Note: All upgrades will be handled by Optiontown.
Contact to Optiontown

Phone: UK +44 (0) 203 371 7854
E-mail: [email protected]
Homepage: www.optiontown.com
Upgrade fees

Intercontinental flights:
Upgrade fees will range between EUR140 and EUR900, depending on availability, destination and service class.
European flights:
Upgrade fees will range between EUR30 and EUR75, depending on availability, destination and service class.
Sign up fee Optiontown

EUR 1 (one) for short haul flights
EUR 5 (five) for long haul flights.
Sign up fee is not refundable.
Note: During the period 10JUN15-31AUG15, no sign up fee will be charged.
Reservation

All upgraded PNRs will be updated with and include OS SK OPTIONTOWN UPGRADE.
Reservation for non 117-documents (only applicable on long haul flights)

Reservations for non 117-documents will be updated by Optiontown with the following information:

OS SK UTO
SR CKIN SK KK. ATTN CHECK-IN. UTO PSGR. PLS UPGRADE TO (CLASS) ACC TO PROC ON SKXXX (DATE), UPG ALREADY PAID BRGDS REV MNGT.
Note: Tickets will not be reissued and upgrade will take place at check-in counter.
Rebooking
If the passenger wants to rebook a flight with confirmed upgrade via Optiontown, always use the original ticket fare, found in TWD, to calculate the fare difference.
Change fee must be collected if applicable for the original ticket.

Refund

After requesting upgrade it is not possible to change or cancel the upgrade request.
Upgrade amount is not refundable.

If the passengers upgrade request is not successful, the upgrade fee will be refunded.
Optiontown must be contacted for refund.
Restrictions

Upgrade of the following passengers cannot be performed:

Travel Pass passengers
Groups (booking class G)
Passengers holding award tickets (booking classes I and X)
ID-passengers (booking classes R and N)

Irregularity

Rebooking procedures for passengers with an upgrade, affected by irregularity:

Rebooking to other SK-flight
If the same booking class as passenger was upgraded to is available - rebook the passenger in the upgraded booking class.
If the same booking class as passenger was upgraded to is not available - rebook the passenger in the same service class as originally booked and refund the upgrade.
Rebooking to other airline
Rebook the passenger in the same service class as originally booked and refund the upgrade.

Note: In case of refund in above cases, the passenger himself must contact Optiontown and request refund.
Benefits

The upgraded passenger is entitled to:

Baggage allowance according to the new class
Star Alliance Priority tag
SAS Business check-in
Fast Track security
SAS Lounge access
EuroBonus points earned according to the new class
Onboard service according to the new class

Passenger process

Passenger makes a reservation on an SAS operated flight. Reservation must be confirmed.
Passenger logs onto www.optiontown.com, creates an account and enters credit card info.
Passenger can register the upgrade request immediately after reservation is made
Sign-up must be made latest 36 hours before departure

Optiontown selects the passengers to be upgraded according to conditions set forth by SAS

If there are seats available and the upgrade request is successful, the upgrade will be confirmed 72-24 hours prior to departure.
Updated 03JUL15 08.57
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Old Sep 23, 2014, 3:08 am
  #1486  
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: EFHK - HEL
Programs: AY, LH, KL, SK, D8, Marriott, Melia.
Posts: 609
You can read it here on this topic, though it will take time to search. Advice is:
1. There are already other bid/bids on hold for that same flight.
2. Wait for some days, the price might get lower.
3. But doing multiple Optiontown requests every day keeps the price even higher, as it is usual on airline´s webpages when searching lowest price. Computer says no, then for lowest price according to demand.
4. 500€ is pretty high price, I guess there is Norway bonus in it. I paid 297€ for CPH-NRT business for comparison. My friend paid 15€ more for same flight after me.
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Old Nov 2, 2014, 11:42 pm
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Norway
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Flying from CPH (Copenhagen) to NRT (Tokyo) tomorrow, first time I have tried OptionTown (first time customer). Could anyone check out the chance of beeing upgraded? (Either to Plus or Business) Flight: SK983

Thanks!
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Old Nov 3, 2014, 4:38 am
  #1488  
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: EFHK - HEL
Programs: AY, LH, KL, SK, D8, Marriott, Melia.
Posts: 609
Flight Stats doesn´t show booking class availability anymore. You should already have an email for successful upgrade yesterday, but wait still.
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Old Nov 3, 2014, 5:17 am
  #1489  
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Norway
Posts: 2
Originally Posted by Abducted Alien
Flight Stats doesn´t show booking class availability anymore. You should already have an email for successful upgrade yesterday, but wait still.
Oh, ok. Guess thats bad news then No email from either SAS or OptionTown yet .. Found a way to check the availability though, through ExpertFlyer. Not very promising information;

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Old Nov 3, 2014, 10:30 am
  #1490  
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Programs: SAS Diamond (*G), Marriott Titanium, Hilton Gold
Posts: 424
When going through OT, does one get miles based on the original booked class or the new upgraded class?
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Old Nov 3, 2014, 10:38 am
  #1491  
 
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: AGH
Posts: 5,979
On the upgraded booking class, so 200% to EuroBonus in both cases
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Old Nov 4, 2014, 12:20 pm
  #1492  
 
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: CPH
Programs: EBD, AB OWS (Gold)
Posts: 459
This is what happens when there are a lot of empty seats in Go:



3 guesses which aircraft is the return flight
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Old Nov 10, 2014, 3:57 pm
  #1493  
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Programs: SAS Diamond (*G), Marriott Titanium, Hilton Gold
Posts: 424
Just to double check, is it possible to credit the upgraded flight to another FFP (not Eurobonus)? I assume yes, but just want to check!
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 12:51 am
  #1494  
 
Join Date: Oct 2011
Programs: EuroBonus Diamond, Delta Skymiles 360, BAEC LTG, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Ambassador
Posts: 2,827
Originally Posted by vd0t
Just to double check, is it possible to credit the upgraded flight to another FFP (not Eurobonus)? I assume yes, but just want to check!
Yes.
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 1:41 am
  #1495  
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Oslo, Norway
Programs: SK Gold
Posts: 15
Upgrade on domestic and intra European flights

It's now possible to use Optiontown on domestic and intra European flights. Just requested an upgrade for OSL-BGO next week.
€1 for signig on and in my case, €26 for Go to Plus.
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 4:10 am
  #1496  
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: EFHK - HEL
Programs: AY, LH, KL, SK, D8, Marriott, Melia.
Posts: 609
I believe it now:
You now have the opportunity to upgrade your flight with SAS within the Nordic region and Europe or to the USA and Asia.

http://www.flysas.com/en/travel-info...chase-upgrade/
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 4:18 am
  #1497  
 
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: AGH
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Cool, that rocks.

Not for service, but for points
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 5:48 am
  #1498  
 
Join Date: Jun 2014
Programs: EuroBonus Diamond
Posts: 169
Originally Posted by fassy
Cool, that rocks.

Not for service, but for points
This is brilliant for points!

I'm going to move back to Scandinavia at the end of November, so I'm probably going to use OT quite a lot in the beginning to fast track my way to GOLD. ^
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 6:15 am
  #1499  
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Programs: SAS Diamond (*G), Marriott Titanium, Hilton Gold
Posts: 424
Great stuff!

Now to find flights with higher likelihood of upgrades
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 6:29 am
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CPH-WAW
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