with my luck its a middle seat in PE 🤣🤣🤡 as long as I get free booze onboard I am ok for a flight 😁

09JAN 2026

ARN >> CPH - Bid the minimum 1000sek - accepted.
CPH>>SFO - Bid 6000sek - accepted no bidding at all...despite a zeroed out flight due to the KLM mess this past week......

not back for a cheap flex ticket and all in about 1200USD oneway for J class ARN>>CPH>>SFO.....

I bid 1€ more than min. bid on GVA-ARN and it was accepted (Flex ticket and SK Silver).

Sadly I was unable to order a special meal between the time of confirmation (1145) and the 24h before departure cutoff (1215). I mainly wanted to upgrade for the extra space and because I‘m planning to enjoy a couple of drinks. Let‘s see if the meal or parts of it will be suitable for me tomorrow or not.

Anyway I am looking forward to something new!
And I am impressed how quickly the extra points posted already!

So how much did you bid?

Minimum bid at some point was 140€, but dropped to 110€ few weeks back. I bid 111€.

No luck at t24, flight went to live bidding with a high bid of 135 000 points for BKK-CPH

Bids below 60000 are weak
60000-94999 are medium and 95 000 and above are strong...

H0w insane is this 🫣🤣

People on this flight must really value sk J 🤣 I am flying Y it seems, while I have a few hundred k sk points I dont see the point in paying 10k per hour myself

7J seats seem to be available

I have seen the same insanity on CPH-HND and HND-CPH as well, having failed multiple bids trying to go from Plus/Premium to J.
But looking at the amount of points SK asks for buying a J ticket on the same routes is even more insane, I see point prices up 600.000 for one way CPH-HND...
Imagine spending 1,2 million EB points for a roundtrip J ticket on SK, even by completing that competition they had a year ago you would not even afford it.

heh well FB has some crazy prices too when awards are not available they sell cash tickets at stupid prices on points.

The upgrade window just closed and while it was C5 and Y 5 before this its now C6Y6 and looks like I am sitting in Y and stuck with 200k miles I really wish the SK EB would be fully merged into FB fast before my SK miles expire 🤣🤣

So now I got the official email your bids rejected for both Premium and J, do they still process upgrades at the check in? There are still 2 seats in J and 6 in Premium according to EF 🤣 if they do can you still use EB points? Sorry its been a long time since I actively flew SK

I upgraded PY --> J at check-in for a MIA-CPH flight about three weeks ago, it cost 35.000 points. My upgrade bid was cancelled without warning at T-24 (cancelled, not rejected... no explanation given by SAS), but I could see there was still decent availability in J, so I just asked at the counter.

good to know theres hope, I am half tempted to ask AY if there is award availability on their morning flight instead 🤣🤣

I missed the J upgrade at the airport, still not sure why they deny upg for higher price to sell them at a discou t at the airport... two guys snagged the last two, one of those giys cut the line so rather annoying.... sk show is rather messy in BKK worst check in set up ever.

Managed to get a PE window seat for 25000points, or could have paif 340€ but chose the semi worthless points. Again I bed 30000 for the PE upgrade so why deny it to sell it cheaper....

Oh well, heres to hoping for no more sk flights for me in 2026 🤣🤔

I have a flight CPH-JFK-SEA on Jan 29th. I am booked on economy, and SK is asking for 1250 USD(min bid) for CPH-JFK leg. the JFK-SEA is on Delta. I am a delta platinum, so good chance it will upgraded.
What should I do, wait for min bid to fall or just fly economy. On my recent journey from SFO to CPH, economy was almost less than 30% full, folks were sleeping on three seats. Business was full with only 1 seat available. I dont mind economy CPH-JFK if its empty/

Anyone with access to Expert Flyer want to get me an idea of load.

You can get same info from SAS own search engine. I don't think ExpertFlyer has more info if it's more than 9 seats available in a certain bookingclass.

1. So what you can do is search for 9 PAX on search engine and see if Eco/Premium/Biz is an option. (That shows if 9 or more seats available)
2. Check seat selection (This only gives an indication of potential maximum seats left in that cabin)
3. Combine 1 & 2 and then you got a range :)

Another option is to know someone working at SAS, maybe a Revenue Manager that has access to load factor on each flight :)

Interesting. I thought expert flyer had access to load factor. It's letting me book 9 seats on the flight on each segment.