boredandre

I have booked a flight from Norway to EWR and back in May. So far so good. But I want to change the return from Eco xtra to business. As of now, no business seats are available. Is your experience that SAS releases more seats over time, or am I "stuck" with Eco xtra?

Thanks

NicoEBG

In my experience usually SK dosent release any extra IC awards over time. Usually the SK EWR flights go out fully booked in C. But if you close to departure see available seats in C you could call EB and ask them to ask inventory control to release a I award seat. I have had luck with this before, but its luck and not very common I guess.
PS it were on a CPH-NRT flight, not EWR.

Good luck

boredandre

Thank you NicoEBG. I will do that

livious

I agree with Nico, particularly for C class. With that being said, SAS just opened up a few dates for CPH-EWR in July for Y and Y+. I had been tracking award availability (or lack of) from CPH to the US for the past month. It was a nice surprise to see something open up.

In addition to calling, I would monitor the loads of the flight you are on. It might be that C class is full and SAS cannot open anything up...although might change over time. It would be better to ask them to release a seat if there is a free [email protected]:-)

oliver2002

Can you do Optiontown on awards? @:-)

gakke

Short answer - no.

The reservation is needed for an upgrade, and flights booked with reward booking classes are not allowed.

I've never been able to upgrade an award trip, not for cash, points or via Optiontown

I have, however gotten some opups

SK_RSJ

Do remember that you can only change the homebound flight 24h prior to taking the outbound flight (if you are not EBP member).

NordicLane

I have been able to upgrade SAS award trips for Eurobonus points at gate, last time in November 2012. There are also several other stories about this here in FT and other forums.

boredandre

Thank you everyone

HenrikP

Expertflyer now offers availability alert for award tickets with SK. So if you sign up for expert flyer you can create an e-mail alert telling you if a biz award seat gets available...

herro

I also have tried it several times to upgrade awards for points. But find it all depending of the gate agent or check in agent if it is possible or not. The general rule is that you cannot do it but sometimes your are lucky so always try to ask for it :-)

/HerrO

Svantevit

I just succeded in upgrading a US Dividend Miles award booking from economy to business today (on SK998 from PVG to CPH). Cost 40000 points which was well worth it in my opponion, as I had just gotten of NZ289 from AKL (which unfortunately was operated by their infamous B767-300).

The check-in agent had to confer with her supervisor which granted the upgrade ^. For info there was about 18 passengers in C on this flight.

Svantevit