SAS or Continental if flying business (CPH-EWR)
#1
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Join Date: Dec 2011
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SAS or Continental if flying business (CPH-EWR)
When being a EBG member would you then recommend flying Continental C-class or stick with SAS C-class?
Upsides:
- Lie flat bed
- Approx. 50 % of the price of SAS C-Class (summer campaign)
Downsides:
- Less points (but anybody knows what you get for a Z class ticket on continental when being a EBG member?)
- A little bit longer flight time (and the risk for a technical stop if strong head wind)
Please share your comments
Upsides:
- Lie flat bed
- Approx. 50 % of the price of SAS C-Class (summer campaign)
Downsides:
- Less points (but anybody knows what you get for a Z class ticket on continental when being a EBG member?)
- A little bit longer flight time (and the risk for a technical stop if strong head wind)
Please share your comments
#2
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: CPH, BRU
Programs: LH SEN* (*G), EBG (*G)
Posts: 792
When being a EBG member would you then recommend flying Continental C-class or stick with SAS C-class?
Upsides:
- Lie flat bed
- Approx. 50 % of the price of SAS C-Class (summer campaign)
Downsides:
- Less points (but anybody knows what you get for a Z class ticket on continental when being a EBG member?)
- A little bit longer flight time (and the risk for a technical stop if strong head wind)
Please share your comments
Upsides:
- Lie flat bed
- Approx. 50 % of the price of SAS C-Class (summer campaign)
Downsides:
- Less points (but anybody knows what you get for a Z class ticket on continental when being a EBG member?)
- A little bit longer flight time (and the risk for a technical stop if strong head wind)
Please share your comments
#3
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Sweden
Programs: TK M&S Elite (*G), SK EB Silver, various more or less shiny hotel cards
Posts: 986
http://www.flysas.com/en/EuroBonus/E...ntal-Airlines/
But half the price in combination with new business seats is a very convincing argument, isn't it?
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I do this route quite a lot.
Lounge access at CPH is the same. Lounges at EWR are different, but I prefer the CO lounges to the SK lounge at EWR even as the food/beverage selection at the SK EWR lounge is better than what CO offers.
Fast-track security is not provided at CPH when flying CO, but it is provided when flying SK. Fast-track security at EWR is better with SK than with CO.
Check-in at CPH is more consistently quicker for me with CO than with SK, but a fair amount of time is eaten up with CO by having to get myself from the SK terminal to the other terminal for CO at CPH. At EWR, check-in with SK is often quicker than with CO; however, given I'm usually connecting from DCA on my way to CPH -- I still avoid IAD -- check-in at EWR isn't an issue for me; that, or I check-in at EWR in the morning so I can go directly to the gate upon returning from Manhattan.
Boarding process, a wash IMO; but at least with CO, more flexible cabin baggage practices.
In-flight hard product -- I prefer CO now to SK.
In-flight service -- I prefer SK.
... for half the price, I'd definitely pick CO. For any discount, I'd pick CO.
In most programs, Z on CO mostly credits like full fare economy class tickets. However, if booking a Z fare with the UA/CO-operated flight marketed as a LH flight (for example), the UA/CO-operated flight connecting CPH with EWR may end up crediting as a J booking class flight.
Given UA/CO's program doesn't charge fuel surcharges on mileage tickets, crediting the flights to UA/CO's program may make some sense if you plan to use them for a one-way ticket in Europe that would otherwise be expensive. If familiar with how fuel-dumping works for regular paid tickets, perhaps this will be of extraordinary use.
Lounge access at CPH is the same. Lounges at EWR are different, but I prefer the CO lounges to the SK lounge at EWR even as the food/beverage selection at the SK EWR lounge is better than what CO offers.
Fast-track security is not provided at CPH when flying CO, but it is provided when flying SK. Fast-track security at EWR is better with SK than with CO.
Check-in at CPH is more consistently quicker for me with CO than with SK, but a fair amount of time is eaten up with CO by having to get myself from the SK terminal to the other terminal for CO at CPH. At EWR, check-in with SK is often quicker than with CO; however, given I'm usually connecting from DCA on my way to CPH -- I still avoid IAD -- check-in at EWR isn't an issue for me; that, or I check-in at EWR in the morning so I can go directly to the gate upon returning from Manhattan.
Boarding process, a wash IMO; but at least with CO, more flexible cabin baggage practices.
In-flight hard product -- I prefer CO now to SK.
In-flight service -- I prefer SK.
... for half the price, I'd definitely pick CO. For any discount, I'd pick CO.
In most programs, Z on CO mostly credits like full fare economy class tickets. However, if booking a Z fare with the UA/CO-operated flight marketed as a LH flight (for example), the UA/CO-operated flight connecting CPH with EWR may end up crediting as a J booking class flight.
Given UA/CO's program doesn't charge fuel surcharges on mileage tickets, crediting the flights to UA/CO's program may make some sense if you plan to use them for a one-way ticket in Europe that would otherwise be expensive. If familiar with how fuel-dumping works for regular paid tickets, perhaps this will be of extraordinary use.
#6
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 138
When being a EBG member would you then recommend flying Continental C-class or stick with SAS C-class?
Upsides:
- Lie flat bed
- Approx. 50 % of the price of SAS C-Class (summer campaign)
Downsides:
- Less points (but anybody knows what you get for a Z class ticket on continental when being a EBG member?)
- A little bit longer flight time (and the risk for a technical stop if strong head wind)
Please share your comments
Upsides:
- Lie flat bed
- Approx. 50 % of the price of SAS C-Class (summer campaign)
Downsides:
- Less points (but anybody knows what you get for a Z class ticket on continental when being a EBG member?)
- A little bit longer flight time (and the risk for a technical stop if strong head wind)
Please share your comments
Where did you find this campaign?
#7
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: OSL
Posts: 275
On a TATL I will always prefer a widebody before a narrow, and most european carriers before any US. But, for half the price I would say ^
..when on the subject: Unexpected Fuel Stops, Inconvenience and Delays
..when on the subject: Unexpected Fuel Stops, Inconvenience and Delays
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On a TATL I will always prefer a widebody before a narrow, and most european carriers before any US. But, for half the price I would say ^
..when on the subject: Unexpected Fuel Stops, Inconvenience and Delays
..when on the subject: Unexpected Fuel Stops, Inconvenience and Delays
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