SAS manages to out-do BA with a new service cut …. which hopefully BA won’t follow

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• DR DEATH says:

  28 Dec28 December 04:32

  SAS Such A S***

  • RIcatti says:

    28 Dec28 December 12:41

    SAS Plus is only useful for earning some miles.

    The seats are all metal and so tight and close to each other — your neighbour is reading off their phone screen practically on your lap. Well, gives a chance to start a conversation and learn smth, as those are indeed corporate flyers.

    Once again, SAS seats are very hard and extremely inconvenient even for short flights. They are hardened Scandinavian people one would say.

• DR DEATH says:

  28 Dec28 December 04:37

  Passengers on a SAS flight heard this announcement from the captain, “Ladies and Gentlemen, I am sorry to inform you that we have lost power to all of our engines and will shortly crash into the ocean.” The passengers were obviously very worried about this situation, but were somewhat comforted by the captain’s next announcement. “Ladies and Gentlemen, we at SAS have prepared for such an emergency, and we would now like you to rearrange your seating so that all the non-swimmers are on the left side of the plane, and all the swimmers are on the right side.”
  After this announcement, all the passengers rearranged their seating to comply with the captain’s request. Two minutes later, the captain made a belly landing in the ocean.
  The captain once again made an announcement, “Ladies and Gentlemen we have crashed into the ocean. All of the swimmers on the right side of the plane, open your emergency exits and quickly swim away from the plane. For all of the non-swimmers on the left side of plane… “Thank You For Flying SAS.”

  • the real harry says:

    28 Dec28 December 06:03

    Must have been good in Swedish 🙂

• PalCsaky says:

  28 Dec28 December 04:46

  The best thing about SAS is that all economy fare classes earn 100% on A3. Cutting 3rd party lounge access is a minor loss for 100% mileage credit.

  • David says:

    28 Dec28 December 07:33

    shhh…

  • Kip says:

    28 Dec28 December 10:05

    Absolutely. I like SAS, they’ve always been excellent when I’ve flown with them.

    And anyone spending £700 for a 1 hour flight probably needs to re-think their travel policy anyway.

    • Chris says:

      28 Dec28 December 11:03

      A cut is a cut. It doesn’t matter if YOU don’t spend £700 on such a fare. Someone else does. And one day (probably very soon) they’ll be cutting benefits on the fares you do pay.

      In any case, why be so selfish as to say ‘I’m alright Jack’ – which is effectlvely what you’re saying?

      I have never understood this response to cutbacks, see it repeatedly on Flyertalk. I presume it can only be made by people instigating the cuts in the first place.

      • Kip says:

        28 Dec28 December 14:45

        I buy SAS Plus fares so this will potentially affect me. I just don’t pay £700 for them. And I fly from MAN so it probably affects me more than London-based passengers.

        I just can’t get excited by it that’s all.

        • the real harry says:

          28 Dec28 December 15:49

          yep many FTSE100 cos have a no business class rule for under 4 hrs flight duration for a good reason

• Concerto says:

  28 Dec28 December 05:40

  But it’s just another cut in an ongoing race to the bottom.

• OttoMH says:

  28 Dec28 December 06:33

  I’ve always rated SAS short haul as pretty dire even before this change. The planes are old, dirty, BoB expensive/unimaginative and the service is usually somewhere between cold and atilla-the-hun. CPH can be a ball-ache from schengen to non-schengen too.

  The Scandinavian nationalist loyalty is the only reason they survived in the first place. After all, 1 in 3 Scandinavians are Eurobonus members!

  So, along comes DY with clean new planes, internet, prickly pears instead of old crab apples and a reasonably good BoB offering and fares without a 2 or 3 at the start of them…

  No surprise at all!

  However, they can’t cut themselves to success! This move will only alienate their best customers which is the opposite of what they should be doing!!

• Neil says:

  28 Dec28 December 06:47

  Does this mean then that if I’m connecting from MAN to a long haul flight from CPH I will no longer get lounge access at MAN with a long haul J ticket?

  • Kip says:

    28 Dec28 December 10:08

    You will probably be ok because the ticket will still be Business not Plus. A bit like LHR-MAN on long-haul business.

• Koshka says:

  28 Dec28 December 07:22

  Aside from the newer, shinier planes I haven’t had great experiences on my three Norwegian flights. The wi-fi hasn’t worked once and on two flights from Portugal to Sweden they sold most of the BonB stock on the outbound flight. On one occasion every meal option had run out by Row 6. SAS is a bit basic but as long as I continue to get my free bag with Silver and the free tea and coffee on board then I’m fairly happy. I only use short haul so my opinion could be different if I ever had to go further afield.

• Tina says:

  28 Dec28 December 07:48

  Your description of SAS Plus pretty much sums up BAs CE!

  Therefore BA doesn’t have a short haul business product either…. 😉

  • Krankyfly says:

    28 Dec28 December 08:26

    You are wrong. BA does have a separate Business cabin on shorthaul with the middle seat left empty.

    SAS does not. No free middle seat either.

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