First time flying SAS - advice needed
Aug 19, 2018, 10:16 am
#1
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First time flying SAS - advice needed
Me and my partner will be flying SAS from ATH > CPH > LHR.
This will be our first time flying SAS, please help us with the below question.
1. We can bid for upgrade from Sas Go to Sas Plus. Bid starts at £35 for the ATH > CPH leg. Worth it?
2. If we bid and get the upgrade, are we going to be able to select special meal? (Vegan)
3. What lounge could we use in ATH?
4. If we upgrade only the first leg, can we use the SAS lounge in CPH? (Provided we miss our connecting flight)
5. Our layover is only 40 minutes between the 2 flights. Are the luggages going to make it? And are we?
Thank you for your help!
This will be our first time flying SAS, please help us with the below question.
1. We can bid for upgrade from Sas Go to Sas Plus. Bid starts at £35 for the ATH > CPH leg. Worth it?
2. If we bid and get the upgrade, are we going to be able to select special meal? (Vegan)
3. What lounge could we use in ATH?
4. If we upgrade only the first leg, can we use the SAS lounge in CPH? (Provided we miss our connecting flight)
5. Our layover is only 40 minutes between the 2 flights. Are the luggages going to make it? And are we?
Thank you for your help!
Aug 19, 2018, 12:05 pm
#2
Join Date: Jun 2015
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Me and my partner will be flying SAS from ATH > CPH > LHR.
This will be our first time flying SAS, please help us with the below question.
1. We can bid for upgrade from Sas Go to Sas Plus. Bid starts at £35 for the ATH > CPH leg. Worth it?
2. If we bid and get the upgrade, are we going to be able to select special meal? (Vegan)
3. What lounge could we use in ATH?
4. If we upgrade only the first leg, can we use the SAS lounge in CPH? (Provided we miss our connecting flight)
5. Our layover is only 40 minutes between the 2 flights. Are the luggages going to make it? And are we?
Thank you for your help!
This will be our first time flying SAS, please help us with the below question.
1. We can bid for upgrade from Sas Go to Sas Plus. Bid starts at £35 for the ATH > CPH leg. Worth it?
2. If we bid and get the upgrade, are we going to be able to select special meal? (Vegan)
3. What lounge could we use in ATH?
4. If we upgrade only the first leg, can we use the SAS lounge in CPH? (Provided we miss our connecting flight)
5. Our layover is only 40 minutes between the 2 flights. Are the luggages going to make it? And are we?
Thank you for your help!
2. Yes, but you need to order it 24h before the flight. If you place a successful bid, you will be usually notified 47 hours in advance.
3. LH or A3. You can choose or even try out both.
4. No.
5. If the plane is on time, yes. Otherwise maybe, depending on your delay and the possible delay of your connecting flight. Nevertheless that is SK‘s headache.
Aug 19, 2018, 1:58 pm
#4
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Liquids can be brought onto the connecting flight, but have the store put it in a sealed bag in case of irregularities
Aug 24, 2018, 12:00 am
#5
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Our flight seems to be nearly full (2 seats left in SAS Plus).
We placed a bid to upgrade with a minimum amount.
It made me wonder, if a flight is full, at BA your chances of upgrading (not through bidding but other ways) are small when the plane is full, since they have to keep the middle seat open.
Since SAS does not guarantee you this, does a full flight means a smaller chance of an upgrade?
We placed a bid to upgrade with a minimum amount.
It made me wonder, if a flight is full, at BA your chances of upgrading (not through bidding but other ways) are small when the plane is full, since they have to keep the middle seat open.
Since SAS does not guarantee you this, does a full flight means a smaller chance of an upgrade?
Aug 24, 2018, 1:08 am
#6
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Surely, if a flight is full there are no seats to upgrade into.
Note that in SAS Plus there is no such thing as keeping the middle seat free (since you compare to BA). Good luck on your upgrade bid - do report back on the outcome.
Note that in SAS Plus there is no such thing as keeping the middle seat free (since you compare to BA). Good luck on your upgrade bid - do report back on the outcome.
Aug 24, 2018, 1:12 am
#7
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I am not sure if you are right on this?
If the flight is full but there are 6 people who are willing to bid for SAS Plus, it would make sense to extend SAS Plus by 1 extra row and take the money from those 6 people.
Hence my question...
Aug 24, 2018, 1:29 am
#8
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Commercially it would make sense to do, but likely not something they would do below a certain threshold of bid level (i.e. higher than minimum bid). And, as you say, it would require exactly six people bidding sufficient amounts (or 12, 18, etc) for this to work,
Aug 24, 2018, 1:38 am
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Aug 26, 2018, 10:47 pm
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upgraded
The upgrade has gone through and now sitting in row 1 in SAS Plus.
* The star alliance website suggests that we have to use the Goldair lounge. Since Sas Plus is not bysiness class, will they let us in to the Lufthansa lounge?
Thanks!
* The star alliance website suggests that we have to use the Goldair lounge. Since Sas Plus is not bysiness class, will they let us in to the Lufthansa lounge?
Thanks!
Last edited by let_BAegones_be; Aug 26, 2018 at 11:38 pm
Aug 27, 2018, 2:24 am
#15
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The Lufthansa business class lounges should let you in. The boarding pass is shown as C for just those purposes....