Wrong, there is different food in business. Hot meal on longer and important routes (such as LHR ),

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Scandinavian Airlines are reducing Economy Extra tickets bahamas vacation packages by 25% on average and up to 40% on some European routes. SAS aims to attract more passenger that wants Fast Track, light meals, and the possibility bahamas vacation packages to rebook tickets in Europe.
This new strategy will be introduced on more than 40 European destinations from CPH . Instead of just focusing on making money by being dirt cheap, SAS believes some passengers will pay a little extra for less time at the airport and more comfort.
Personally, I have found that Y on many airlines are now so bad (Should bahamas vacation packages we name it Y-? ), that I have started to pay extra for a better flying experience. Not sure if I am the average flying person. I am very tall and enjoy Y+ products.
Maybe they're finally doing what I told them when I was working there. bahamas vacation packages When you have a product that doesn't differ bahamas vacation packages from the LCCs there's really no reason bahamas vacation packages as to why you should pay the extra money. So you need to set yourself apart from the LCC players with your product. SK did the exact opposite and tried to compete with the likes of Ryanair and Easyjet by trying to mimic them but that was always a battle they would lose, which has been painfully evident the last couple of years. It seems SK is slowly gaining control of their cost base and now they're starting to look at ways to actually make money instead of loosing it.
So, in effect they're back to what they used to offer. And they charge extra for it. Maybe it was a bad idea to lower the standards in the first place. Maybe it would've been better to just take the loss to the LCCs and then focus on being a great full service airline. A lot of people realized bahamas vacation packages after a while that flying LCCs for business is really not cheaper (fare rules, oddly located airports) so they would automatically come back to the service they need and want after getting disappointed at the LCCs. The problem was that they got disappointed with SK as well since SK had lowered the service to the standard of the LCCs but didn't bahamas vacation packages change the price accordingly. So now SK needs to revise back to what they used to offer and the business travelers will come back and also pay the extra money for the extra service.
I have always been adamant that LCCs serve a great purpose for Joe public, taking a plane today is equivalent to getting on a bus or a train both in price and availability.. But it will never really bahamas vacation packages be able to be an acceptable bahamas vacation packages alternative to legacy carriers for business travelers..
So it seems. It reminds me in a way about the Euroclass that SAS offered for a while. In the end almost all passengers where in front of the curtain. It may not be like that this time around, but SAS strength is being a premium brand and as you state they will never be viewed as a LCC.
Quoting oykie ( Thread starter ): Scandinavian Airlines are reducing Economy Extra tickets by 25% on average and up to 40% on some European routes. SAS aims to attract more passenger that wants Fast Track, light meals, and the possibility to rebook tickets in Europe.
First, business class. What is the motivation for the passenger to buy business class ticket on European service bahamas vacation packages on SAS? It is the same seat in all classes, and in business there is the same food as in "Economy Extra" (except spirits available in business bahamas vacation packages and beer+wine only in Y+). On "Economy Extra" you get the same ticket flexibility as in Business. There is bigger chance to get free seat next to you, but no guarantee if it is a full flight.
In my view, "Economy Extra" should eat "Business" product a lot. AFAIK on domestic flights SAS removed business at all, but there are many international SAS services from CPH / ARN / OSL in 2 hours range (actually, even shorter then some of Norway/Sweden domestic services) where Business are still in place.
Economy product is the same as low cost, except seat allocation and 1 bag included to the ticket price. This year they re-introduced free coffee on "Economy" but given rude (and be honest, usually very old and un-motivated) cabin crew, it is much better experience to fly "Wizz Air" or "airBaltic" without free coffee but smiling and nice (and young) Eastern bahamas vacation packages European staff.
It is different with long-haul, where "Economy Extra" at SAS is quite good product for those who are not able to buy "Business" tickets, but it is very hard to find sense in existing European products structure.
Wrong, there is different food in business. Hot meal on longer and important routes (such as LHR ), while it's always cold food in economy extra. There to be said, there is a number of routes where they don't offer business class, but you still can by a "business" ticket
Quoting smbukas bahamas vacation packages ( Reply 4 ): AFAIK on domestic flights SAS removed business at all, but there are many international SAS services from CPH / ARN / OSL in 2 hours range (actually, even shorter then some of Norway/Sweden domestic services) where Business are still in place.
SAS never had business in domestic flight in Norway (maybe back in the very old days?) which accounts for a majority of their domestic services. The reason for this is partly cultural and that there is no demand for it. Braathens tried this in the late 90's and it was a gigantic failure
The rest of you post is more personal opinions, although I must say I disagree with parts of it. Maybe I'm most used to Norwegian crew, but my experience (and I probably fly SAS a lot more than you) is that they actually are friendly and smiling. In addition they gotten quite a few young and good looking FA 's too
It wouldn't be much change in the price difference. The Y+ prices they will reduce is for the cheapest Y+ fare buckets, not for the fully flexible/flexible Y+ tickets, which still will be priced about the same.
The reason behind this price reductions bahamas vacation packages is just like the Z-fare bucket in business, trying to get some customer to be willing bahamas vacation packages to be pay a little extra for the "comfort" when flexibility is not needed
The first post in this thread (and the press release from SAS) is quite inaccurate, and make it sound like they are overall reducing prices in economy bahamas vacation packages extra, when the reality is that they come up with an economy bahamas vacation packages extra discounted fare bucket. Which they already have on international routes
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