On line check in
 

Are SAS allowing in line check in with HBO, or do you still need to physically check in, especially at outstations such as MAN?

It probably depends more on the document check requirements of your destination than it does on your originating airport. If e.g. coming to Japan, don't plan on avoiding the check-in counters....

OLCI is of course possible. If your destination requires COVID paperwork, you may need to do the document check - this must be done at the airport in some cases, but for certain destinations you can do it online: https://www.flysas.com/en/travelreadycenter/

As others have said, really depends on the departure airport. It works well in most places, in some places where additional checks are needed and they do give you a BP they'll just call your name at the gate or you'll get a red bleep when you try to board.

Or they allow check-in but will no issue the board pass to the app or via email. Check-in usually works everywhere... but if a document check is required, most of the times you have to show up at the check-in counter. I think from my past MAN experiences online check-in and board pass to the app was not a problem, but I do have a EU-passport attached to my profile and of course was on my way back from UK to Scandinavia.

I had case recently where I could not get the boardingpass in the app nor website. However http://ci.sas.mobi/ worked like charm.

SAS online check-in is just weird at times: I can take several US passport users flying the same exact itinerary, each on their own ticketed PNR, and the OLCI process will work for some to get a boarding pass on the flight but fail for one or more of the others on the same flight and similar itinerary.

In my experience failure of OLCI on TATL flights is usually (but not always) an indication that your bp will have the famous SSSS on it.

Often, yes. But when it comes to OLCI working for my own SAS TATL flights' record locators to get me my boarding passes, the correlation between OCLI's functionality and SSSS has not been what it used to be for me for at least the past 3 years. I have been unable to get SSSS on any US-bound SAS TATL flights for over 36 months now, and this is even as the number of my US-bound SAS flights in this period is very high. For better or for worse, my rate of getting OLCI to work in pushing me boarding passes for SAS TATL flights in either direction has been much lower than my rate of not getting SSSS flags for SAS TATL flights.

When it comes to getting hit with haraSSSSment flagging for flights during the pandemic, I've had a grand total of zero such incidents. For me, that has been a sort of noteworthy turn as usually such a volume of US-bound international flights pre-April 2020 would have had me expecting several. The number of incidents where SAS OLCI fails me in part for my SAS TATL flights is unfortunately not negligible.

Amusingly, SAS is the last carrier that I saw where PreCheck boarding pass passengers got flagged for haraSSSSment screening despite no SSSS flagging on the SAS boarding passes noting PreCheck. And IIRC, that was at OSL for one of SAS's OSL-US flights.

I find that when SK check-in on their glitchy App fails, the glitchy website usually does the trick and when you complete the check-in there the App usually updates. I have only had cases where SK insisted on doc checks before giving me a boarding card where I didn't get one issued. In return that could conflict with routes where other airlines on the same route would or would not give me a boarding card where SK would or would not. There is incredibly little consistency, most issues where on flights to LHR and ZRH.