Yay Sas, just cancelled the flight from lhr to arn but rebooked me on a flight that will absolutely miss the last train that night.

its a flight just short of three hours later.

Does sas have any obligations to pay for a hotel or a taxi home? Or do I get to sleep in the airport until 3am when the train starts again!!

Check EC261 rules, especially if your new flight is delayed. How far in advance was your old flight cancelled?

18 minutes to make the train won’t work reliably if having checked luggage. Even without checked luggage to claim, I don’t even always get to the train tracks within 18 minutes of my LHR-ARN flights opening the door.

Sometime this past winter I had to leave from a part of Uppsala in the evening and get an intra-Schengen flight out of Arlanda. I was surprised how the last bus from outside of Uppsala C was scheduled such that if I would have missed it then I would have had to stay in Uppsala overnight or get a taxi/car to take me to Stockholm to try to avoid missing my flight. And it was a Friday night and not even that late. Maybe there was something going on that made the public transit options look potentially extra risky that day, but I was surprised they weren’t better for the time of night. They did have some kind of sign up in the bus waiting area that showed some kind of limited schedule with maybe a explanation for why, but let’s just say my mind was more focused on the clocks.

Onward connection options using public transit can drop in convenience the later it gets at night, and even a little delay could mean a substantial change in plans or other problems due to schedule gaps. And with the way Sweden seems to like doing track closures and various line work during the summer and has other rail infrastructure and service irregularities, all I can say is that I wouldn’t want to have to count on the last train of the evening.

I was surprised too, as I had expected it to be otherwise before having looked up all the schedules and updates for public transit running that night using UL, SJ, SL and flygbussen. Sounds like it was an exceptional situation rather than normal. There did seem to be a lot of construction-related fencing around that Uppsala C square with the various bus stops; and there were some signs at the bus stops indicating that there were some schedule changes or something else going on IIRC.

It would perhaps work if it was just Uppsala but it’s further than that. Normal daytime ride is about 50 minutes with a change in Uppsala. At the time of night that I ended up landing it was the 0400am that I would, and did catch.

Sas was pretty unclear if they would solve it so I just waited until 0400.

actually the 801 bus is pretty good and often beats the train. The platform guards at Arlanda can really slow down getting to the platform at peak times as you have to wait for them to open the doors. Generally I try to jump the 801 but it’s the next connection that whilst being great during the day kinda starts to fail at night.

Where did you wait out the night and what did you do during the wait?

Isn’t the Clarion airport hotel gym open for paid use at night? I get it for free, so I would probably just use it and hang out there (if not going into town).

I just sat up in sky city and tried to sleep. Lots of other people doing the same.

Delayed, yes, all the time.

More than 20 minutes on either sl or UL transport any you can jump on a taxi. But, keep lots of proof and they will fight you all the way and try the bear minimum