SAS pilots on strike in April 2019
Apr 29, 2019, 10:24 pm
#241
Join Date: Jul 2006
Programs: VA, A3, HH, SQ, EK, CX
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Apr 29, 2019, 11:12 pm
#242
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: CPH, Swedish side of the bridge
Programs: SK*G (EBD)
Posts: 574
Has anyone had experience getting rebooked with award tickets? The wife and I have an award trip to Chicago in J on Thursday. I assume that they will simply rebook us into J on AC/LH like regular revenue pax, but would like some confirmation so I know what to expect going into tomorrow's round of cancellations...
Apr 29, 2019, 11:26 pm
#243
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: CPH, Swedish side of the bridge
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Apr 30, 2019, 12:14 am
#244
Join Date: Jul 2006
Programs: VA, A3, HH, SQ, EK, CX
Posts: 72
So I just received a text message from SAS saying my flight tomorrow has been cancelled and I can't be rebooked (1 May SVG-OSL).
It was an award booking that connected me to a LH F flight from FRA-BKK.
I have now had to book a flight from SVG-LGW then LHR-FRA to be able to make my FRA-BKK connection.
Anyone have any experience with SAS reimbursing alternative travel costs for award flights ?
It was an award booking that connected me to a LH F flight from FRA-BKK.
I have now had to book a flight from SVG-LGW then LHR-FRA to be able to make my FRA-BKK connection.
Anyone have any experience with SAS reimbursing alternative travel costs for award flights ?
Apr 30, 2019, 12:17 am
#245
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Preferable @30.000 feet
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So basically the pilots won't take anything less and SAS can't afford to give them that without risking bankruptcy. So this stalemate could go on until SAS is forced to file bankruptcy and then all the pilots lose their jobs or would have to take an even steeper paycut. It's extremely obvious that this is less to do with scheduling and more to do with salary increases. If scheduling was the most important thing to the pilots, this strike would be over. SAS would've already met that demand. So how in the world are they going to solve this strike? I feel like this could go on for months. It seems pretty much impossible at this point. I have a feeling this is going to end badly for the Pilots and their negotiator is going to be run out of town.
On top of what CPU-Flyer has already written. The airline is responsible for validating the training of the pilots. This takes time.
Apr 30, 2019, 12:21 am
#246
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Preferable @30.000 feet
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So I just received a text message from SAS saying my flight tomorrow has been cancelled and I can't be rebooked (1 May SVG-OSL).
It was an award booking that connected me to a LH F flight from FRA-BKK.
I have now had to book a flight from SVG-LGW then LHR-FRA to be able to make my FRA-BKK connection.
Anyone have any experience with SAS reimbursing alternative travel costs for award flights ?
It was an award booking that connected me to a LH F flight from FRA-BKK.
I have now had to book a flight from SVG-LGW then LHR-FRA to be able to make my FRA-BKK connection.
Anyone have any experience with SAS reimbursing alternative travel costs for award flights ?
Also. Try contact SAS. They still might be able to rebook you. The automated rebooking is limited to a limited number of airlines and +-24 hours of scheduled departure.
Last edited by highupinthesky; Apr 30, 2019 at 12:27 am
Apr 30, 2019, 12:23 am
#247
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Preferable @30.000 feet
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Has anyone had experience getting rebooked with award tickets? The wife and I have an award trip to Chicago in J on Thursday. I assume that they will simply rebook us into J on AC/LH like regular revenue pax, but would like some confirmation so I know what to expect going into tomorrow's round of cancellations...
Apr 30, 2019, 12:25 am
#248
Join Date: Mar 2016
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How voided out? It's normal the ownership of the ticket change when rebooking happens, but the ticket is still valid, and if you have to be rebooked later, the ownership will just change again.
Apr 30, 2019, 1:49 am
#251
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: CPH
Programs: SK-EBD
Posts: 1,273
90 seats will help nothing. Maybe a flight for SAS employees? The same flight number seems to have operated CPH-OSL and CPH-GOT in recent days.
Apr 30, 2019, 1:55 am
#252
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: AGH
Posts: 5,979
It was/is most certainly a CR9 operated by Nordica Regional Jet. My departure Monday morning to WAW was also departing A34 and there were like 4 CR9s operated by Nordica Regional Jet parked there while the City Jet CR9 usually either park the other A pier or even at D. (Unless parked remote stand, which means C gates...)
the flight numbers are messed up now anyway. When they canceled my fight Sunday evening they added another flight Monday morning as SK6271. Just to keep rotating the operating CR9s around I guess...
btw, is it just me or did CPH move most of the *A flights to the A gates (like A15-A17), even have quite a lot of SK departures from A now... which before they did the terminal extension where almost exclusively operating from the B-pier (and some odd D departure)
Apr 30, 2019, 2:03 am
#253
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Location: CPH
Programs: UAMP S, TK M&S E (*G), Marriott LTP, IHG P, SK EBG
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Once you have LH's pnr you should be able to see the booking online, also when you got rebooked the ticket number remains the same. Happened to us back in February when we were rebooked on LH.
Apr 30, 2019, 2:12 am
#254
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: CPH, Swedish side of the bridge
Programs: SK*G (EBD)
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In preparation for tomorrow's cancellation of my flight on Thursday, I tested the SAS phone banks to see if a rumor was correct, and it is - they have apparently taken away the option of entering your EB number for faster service. Is there a number that can bypass the queue? The "diamond service" number posted on the diamond page and in the app just sends you straight to the ordinary number, where I won't get any benefit of my status. Seems like a real DYKWIA thing to ask, but I really hate telephone queues...
Edit: Tried again 6 hours later and theoption to input EB number is back. Must have been a glitch this morning. :-)
Edit: Tried again 6 hours later and theoption to input EB number is back. Must have been a glitch this morning. :-)
Last edited by JR67; Apr 30, 2019 at 5:38 am
Apr 30, 2019, 3:11 am
#255
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 2,016
The IATA code EE was reused. It once belonged to Aero Airlines but now belongs to Nordica. Some websites have outdated lists of IATA codes and therefore display the name of an earlier airline which used the same IATA code.