Overbooking CPH-PVG
 

Hej,

I'm curious if any of you have an idea how aggressively SAS overbooks and/or how to spot an overbooking situation.

The background is that I'm flying CPH-PVG on the 17th (SK997) and return on the 24th (SK998). The outbound was not bookable for the past week, but is now showing up again with Go Flex and Plus availability.

The flight on the 24th has not been available for the past 2 weeks and there are no other alternative SAS flights on that day available other. I wouldn't mind getting bumped off or bumped up on either flight :-)

I'm just curious if this is a good indication that the flight is overbooked or is SAS a bit more cautious in their approach?

I know that you can't make predictions, but i'm curious as to any experiences you might have had...

Thanks

Andreas

Availability on SK flights usually has this christmas tree effect, I was eyeballing a MIA ticket for the Mrs for May which has become available, unavailable, different partners, different cost, no C, no Y and back to random mixes varying at least daily if not every few hours.

Overbooking is hardly a concern unless you have a very hard cut-off time for which you need to be in PVG. Normally they offer vouchers during overbooking to rebook passengers and there is generally more interest than need.

I can’t answer generally, but I am on the same outbound flight as you (booked in Plus 3 weeks ago), and the load has for a long time been very high. One week ago 0 in C and 0 in B (Plus) and at least 9 in Y. Two days ago suddenly 2 in B. now 1.

I have made a request for pointsupgrade to C, but right now I got a mail stating “Unfortunately we are unable to accommodate your request of Confirmed Upgrade for this flight”. No surprise.

You don’t say what class you are booked in, but in Y you will definitely not get bumped (outbound). C is another question. I don’t know how SK handles overbooking in C, if it is another flight or involuntary downgrade.

Thanks. I'm booked in Go (was able to choose a window seat in row 31, so no need for Plus) and due to EBG status I'm not really concerned about not getting on this flight. But I was debating if it makes sense to show up a bit earlier at the gate to volunteer in case there is an overbooking. Either to get a voucher or profit from good karma by snagging an upgrade to plus (ok, the latter is fairly unlikely, but sometimes the planets align and SK staff is in a good mood).

I guess C is full because of the Shanghai Auto Show.

Forget about figuring out how SAS does it. I've seen tickets and classes change back and forth on a daily basis for a week several times :confused:

Overbooking CPH-PVG
 

Not one empty seat! Amazing. But also no offloaded AFAIK. 1 passive crew downgraded.

I'm curious how it will be on my way back. They are selling business tickets again (expensive booking classes), but nothing else. Expect overbooking.

Right now, fare buckets look like this on SK998 PVG-CPH Apr 24:

C0 D0 Z0 R0 J0 Y0 S0 B0 P0 A0 E5 M5 H0 Q0 V0 W0 U0 K0 L0 T0 O0 G4 N0

Only Go seats available (please correct me if my interpretation isn't correct).

Based on recent experience a lot. I was booked on the CPH PVG flight with my son on the 26th March, due to the weather in OSL on the 26th we missed the flight and were eventually rerouted onto LH via Frankfurt. The booking office in BGO tried to get us onto the next SK flight but the only vacant seats were on the 1st April, all the other days were overbooked. Not fussed A380 beats A340 any day. The return flight on the 5th was cancelled so we were put onto the LH flight via FRA, again A380 was a nice upgrade from SK A340.

Anyone knows the load for CPH-PVG on Thursday (Apr. 23)?

TIA

C9 D9 Z0 R0 J9 Y9 S9 B0 P0 A9 E9 M9 H9 Q0 V0 W0 U0 K0 L0 T0 O0 G9 N9

for CPH-PVG Apr 23 6.40 PM

The flight is not exactly that full.

Thanks!

Every seat was taken and it seems that all classes balanced out as they were not selling upgrades (or asking for downgrades).

Overall very mediocre experience. IFE and reading lights were not working for economy plus and first rows of go for 5 hours (they promised restarts but those never happened, took reboot of entire system). Plus got an explanation but go was pretty much ignored (even though row 23 had several EBD/EBG).

First food service was ok, but second was an inedible salad.

My friend was on the CPH-PVG on Apr. 23 - she was in Y and there was a seat empty next to her. She didn't mention how bad it is - so it's really bad - she used to fly with Plus and now that she had to fly Y because there is no more company sponsored flight.

I understand that the IFE can fail (even though most airlines resolve these problems quicker). What bugs me more is the indifference exhibited by SAS staff. An explanation by someone or an announcement over the PA would have been nice.