SAS or BA to Germany?

[Anonymous]

I have trip later in the year to Germany, and the best deal I can find is on SAS or BA. I’ve flown BA many times without major issue, never flown SAS. If you had to pick one, which one would you pick?

[Anonymous]

BA is a traditional full service airline whereas SAS is a more a budget/leisure airline, though skews far more full service than say Easyjet or Ryanair.

In case of any flight issues, BA probably will be easier to deal with than SAS, but you should be OK choosing based on timing/price.

Lufthansa/United way more expensive? They have a lot of nonstops to MUC and FRA, depending on where you're coming/going.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BA is a traditional full service airline whereas SAS is a more a budget/leisure airline, though skews far more full service than say Easyjet or Ryanair.

In case of any flight issues, BA probably will be easier to deal with than SAS, but you should be OK choosing based on timing/price.

Lufthansa/United way more expensive? They have a lot of nonstops to MUC and FRA, depending on where you're coming/going.

I think you may have an older iteration of BA in your head. They have skewed much more budget airline in the past 10 years or so. I don't see a substantive difference between them and SAS. I'd book whoever has the best mix of cost/schedule.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BA is a traditional full service airline whereas SAS is a more a budget/leisure airline, though skews far more full service than say Easyjet or Ryanair.

In case of any flight issues, BA probably will be easier to deal with than SAS, but you should be OK choosing based on timing/price.

Lufthansa/United way more expensive? They have a lot of nonstops to MUC and FRA, depending on where you're coming/going.

I think you may have an older iteration of BA in your head. They have skewed much more budget airline in the past 10 years or so. I don't see a substantive difference between them and SAS. I'd book whoever has the best mix of cost/schedule.

Freuent flyer here. This is correct. BA now even charges to reserve seats in advance in _business class_.

Back to the question. SAS is now using their A350-900 on their IAD-CPH route, which is quite a new plane.

BA runs 3 fligths a day, a 777, 787, and A380. I'd pick the 787 out of those 3.

But.. connecting in CPH is much easier than LHR, and you'll do immigration in CPH (Shengen zone) instead of in Germany so that can be more pleasant. I'd go SAS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BA is a traditional full service airline whereas SAS is a more a budget/leisure airline, though skews far more full service than say Easyjet or Ryanair.

In case of any flight issues, BA probably will be easier to deal with than SAS, but you should be OK choosing based on timing/price.

Lufthansa/United way more expensive? They have a lot of nonstops to MUC and FRA, depending on where you're coming/going.

I think you may have an older iteration of BA in your head. They have skewed much more budget airline in the past 10 years or so. I don't see a substantive difference between them and SAS. I'd book whoever has the best mix of cost/schedule.

With our trips to London Heathrow, we went round and round and round before we got a landing spot. That could affect your landing time and transfer time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BA is a traditional full service airline whereas SAS is a more a budget/leisure airline, though skews far more full service than say Easyjet or Ryanair.

In case of any flight issues, BA probably will be easier to deal with than SAS, but you should be OK choosing based on timing/price.

Lufthansa/United way more expensive? They have a lot of nonstops to MUC and FRA, depending on where you're coming/going.

I think you may have an older iteration of BA in your head. They have skewed much more budget airline in the past 10 years or so. I don't see a substantive difference between them and SAS. I'd book whoever has the best mix of cost/schedule.

Freuent flyer here. This is correct. BA now even charges to reserve seats in advance in _business class_.

Back to the question. SAS is now using their A350-900 on their IAD-CPH route, which is quite a new plane.

BA runs 3 fligths a day, a 777, 787, and A380. I'd pick the 787 out of those 3.

But.. connecting in CPH is much easier than LHR, and you'll do immigration in CPH (Shengen zone) instead of in Germany so that can be more pleasant. I'd go SAS.

Also, if something goes wrong with your connecting flights, you can easily take a train from Copenhagen or even drive.

[Anonymous]

I'd go with SAS, just to avoid LHR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BA is a traditional full service airline whereas SAS is a more a budget/leisure airline, though skews far more full service than say Easyjet or Ryanair.

In case of any flight issues, BA probably will be easier to deal with than SAS, but you should be OK choosing based on timing/price.

Lufthansa/United way more expensive? They have a lot of nonstops to MUC and FRA, depending on where you're coming/going.

I think you may have an older iteration of BA in your head. They have skewed much more budget airline in the past 10 years or so. I don't see a substantive difference between them and SAS. I'd book whoever has the best mix of cost/schedule.

With our trips to London Heathrow, we went round and round and round before we got a landing spot. That could affect your landing time and transfer time.

+1 We just flew BA to LHR and we were told we couldn’t land before 6:02am local time so we were put in a holding pattern for 20+ minutes. We had a great flight but I’d choose SAS for the OP’s scenario.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BA is a traditional full service airline whereas SAS is a more a budget/leisure airline, though skews far more full service than say Easyjet or Ryanair.

In case of any flight issues, BA probably will be easier to deal with than SAS, but you should be OK choosing based on timing/price.

Lufthansa/United way more expensive? They have a lot of nonstops to MUC and FRA, depending on where you're coming/going.

I think you may have an older iteration of BA in your head. They have skewed much more budget airline in the past 10 years or so. I don't see a substantive difference between them and SAS. I'd book whoever has the best mix of cost/schedule.

With our trips to London Heathrow, we went round and round and round before we got a landing spot. That could affect your landing time and transfer time.

+1 We just flew BA to LHR and we were told we couldn’t land before 6:02am local time so we were put in a holding pattern for 20+ minutes. We had a great flight but I’d choose SAS for the OP’s scenario.

Heathrow has curfew hours due to noise. Your flight arrived so early they couldn’t land yet without being fined so you circled until you could. So you are complaining your flight was early! Ha!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BA is a traditional full service airline whereas SAS is a more a budget/leisure airline, though skews far more full service than say Easyjet or Ryanair.

In case of any flight issues, BA probably will be easier to deal with than SAS, but you should be OK choosing based on timing/price.

Lufthansa/United way more expensive? They have a lot of nonstops to MUC and FRA, depending on where you're coming/going.

I think you may have an older iteration of BA in your head. They have skewed much more budget airline in the past 10 years or so. I don't see a substantive difference between them and SAS. I'd book whoever has the best mix of cost/schedule.

With our trips to London Heathrow, we went round and round and round before we got a landing spot. That could affect your landing time and transfer time.

+1 We just flew BA to LHR and we were told we couldn’t land before 6:02am local time so we were put in a holding pattern for 20+ minutes. We had a great flight but I’d choose SAS for the OP’s scenario.

Heathrow has curfew hours due to noise. Your flight arrived so early they couldn’t land yet without being fined so you circled until you could. So you are complaining your flight was early! Ha!

No, we didn’t arrive early. We left late from Dulles and “weren’t first in line” to land (pilot’s words) so we had to queue up and landed 20 minutes late

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BA is a traditional full service airline whereas SAS is a more a budget/leisure airline, though skews far more full service than say Easyjet or Ryanair.

In case of any flight issues, BA probably will be easier to deal with than SAS, but you should be OK choosing based on timing/price.

Lufthansa/United way more expensive? They have a lot of nonstops to MUC and FRA, depending on where you're coming/going.

I think you may have an older iteration of BA in your head. They have skewed much more budget airline in the past 10 years or so. I don't see a substantive difference between them and SAS. I'd book whoever has the best mix of cost/schedule.

With our trips to London Heathrow, we went round and round and round before we got a landing spot. That could affect your landing time and transfer time.

+1 We just flew BA to LHR and we were told we couldn’t land before 6:02am local time so we were put in a holding pattern for 20+ minutes. We had a great flight but I’d choose SAS for the OP’s scenario.

Heathrow has curfew hours due to noise. Your flight arrived so early they couldn’t land yet without being fined so you circled until you could. So you are complaining your flight was early! Ha!

That's mostly right, but there are a small number of arrivals allowed between 4:30-6:00 AM.

https://www.heathrow.com/company/local-community/noise/operations/night-flights

If a flight took off before 6 AM that wasn't an emergency, it would definitely trigger a fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd go with SAS, just to avoid LHR.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BA is a traditional full service airline whereas SAS is a more a budget/leisure airline, though skews far more full service than say Easyjet or Ryanair.

In case of any flight issues, BA probably will be easier to deal with than SAS, but you should be OK choosing based on timing/price.

Lufthansa/United way more expensive? They have a lot of nonstops to MUC and FRA, depending on where you're coming/going.

I think you may have an older iteration of BA in your head. They have skewed much more budget airline in the past 10 years or so. I don't see a substantive difference between them and SAS. I'd book whoever has the best mix of cost/schedule.

With our trips to London Heathrow, we went round and round and round before we got a landing spot. That could affect your landing time and transfer time.

+1 We just flew BA to LHR and we were told we couldn’t land before 6:02am local time so we were put in a holding pattern for 20+ minutes. We had a great flight but I’d choose SAS for the OP’s scenario.

Heathrow has curfew hours due to noise. Your flight arrived so early they couldn’t land yet without being fined so you circled until you could. So you are complaining your flight was early! Ha!

I was the other poster circling around at LHR but this was at 11am.

[Anonymous]

Look up Heathrow holding stacks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'd go with SAS, just to avoid LHR.

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Yup. Heathrow is now and always has been the worst.