In September 2024, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) announced plans to reintroduce business class on intra-Europe flights, replacing the carrier’s quirky SAS Plus product. Today’s an exciting day on that front, as this product is available for flights effective immediately.
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What about regional planes that have a 2-2 seating layout? Will pne of those seats be blocked as well, or will SAS just use those planes for all economy seating only?
Seems only Air France is going to block the adjacent seat on the embraers.
I also read AF and Delta are unhappy with KL handling at AMS, especially given the recent strikes, and moving to a handling agent. SK is also going for a third party as KL is too expensive.
Imagine being a parent company and looking elsewhere.
Confirming Ricky's Comment; LO always blocks adjacent BC seat for flights going outside of Poland (though they really need to launch in-country business class).
Almost all airlines block adjacent seats on regional jets, except for SkyTeam of course.
"Almost all airlines block adjacent seats on regional jets, except for SkyTeam of course."
Air France does block on middle seats on HOP regionals, and they're SkyTeam.
Why do you feel the need to lie? Or do you just not have a clue what you're talking about?
What people (and SAS for that matter) don’t seem to get is that most company policies allowed for travel in SAS Plus as it was flexible Economy tickets. Most policies expressly prohibits travel in Business class, so there is likely to be a lot fewer premium passengers in the future.
Given the distances, flight times, and price, Europeans value the lounge access and other aspects to the experience. Would people really need to lie down for two hours?....
SAS business is now like any intra European flight except on some routes offered by Air Europa, TAP or ALitalia where you have real business class seats. It's only business in name because on the cheaper prices, it's still booked in A or P class which means Flying Blue counts those as premium economy NOT business. I flew business from CDG to ARN and I was booked in business but I only got 10xp versus 15XP in real business. BUT I must admit, their food is nice and miles are much better than AF-KLM. Then most EU flights are under 3 hours anyway except when you fly to the Canary Islands , Acores or Madeira ( 5 hours from the Nordics) where a real business class offer would help.
You should have got 15 XP with flying blue for a cross border business class flight like that. I recently flew with SAS and got the 15 XP per flight leg - you should get back in touch with flying blue and clarify that they have given you the correct XP as I believe it hasn't been working for some people