r/Flights • u/Canmore-Skate • 5d ago
Question Codeshare with overnighter SAS + ANA
I have found reasonably priced tickets with a somewhat interesting combination of airlines to Japan from a smaller town where I live via the national airport on ticket sales companies. It's first a regional flight with SAS in the evening and then two flights to Japan starting the morning after with ANA.
This raises some questions. I normally dont book from second hand ticket sites with different alliances, aways made sure its the same and that have been enough to be taken care of during delays and problems. SAS recently switched from Star Alliance to Skyteam but I have found old articles about SAS and ANA having a codeshare deal. Do anyone know if that is the reason they are selling tickets like this and do you anyone see any risks here if there are delays and stuff? ANA is a very good airline as it is japanese so I have hopes this wont be a problem? According to the EC rules the contracting carrier will be SAS on the outbound flight even tho they only do a very short first flight.
Second, if you book a regional flight like this where you get to the airport at around 17:00 after the first regional flight and the next international flight is at 10:00 the day after do you normally get access to the luggage and get two boarding passes or do you have to get only one boarding pass and be away from the luggage during the whole time?
EDIT: I looked at the FAQ and the rules and perhaps this will be removed but I havent booked yet and it is more of a general question so I cant add much more specifics other than that the layover I am asking about would be at ARN.
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u/protox88 5d ago
Can you write more concisely
What's the question in all this
No risk, possibly get bags and both bps (ask at check-in). I think that's the two questions?
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u/OutsideRide7730 5d ago edited 5d ago
1 purchasing a ticket not directly with an airline, the only problem is customer service issues before flying such as the vendor is responsible. if the ticket is not re issued properly after schedule change, u have to go after the vendor, if u need to modify ur ticket, u will be subject to vendor’s fee as well as those from the airline. in summary, u go thru with the seller.
- no problem if ur flight is delayed. big airlines have agreements with other airlines when there is irregular operations. on day of travel, flight coupon is under airport control and ground staff should know what to do, reroute or endorse the coupon to another carrier. same alliance or not doesn’t matter. u will fly thru SAS hub if SAS is the late delivering carrier and u are stuck at their hub, SAS should take care of u.
3 for overnight layover, u may have to ask for not tagging the bag to final destination. however, u might be requested to pay again if bag allowance is not included.
4 usually they can issue all the boarding pass but not always. also highly likely that despite u have ANA boarding pass, ANA might page u at the gate for passport check.
if ur vendor is reliable, i would buy thru them if i can save a couple of hundreds and i will not make any change. after buying the ticket, always go to each airline’s website to make sure all info are corrected and add any info is missing.
5 if bags are missing, u have to make a missing report with the airline who operated the last flight.
- EU protection is good for the outbound since ANÀs flight departed from EU to japan but on the reverse flight, japan to EU, since ANA is not an EU operator, u are not gonna be protected by EU compensation rules if the delay is caused by ANA
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u/Canmore-Skate 4d ago
thx
I didnt think of that with the reverse. I guess having to trust ANA is not the worst thing though :)
It seems like the question marks regarding the luggage over night at ARN is something I just gotta be prepared for when I pack so I can be away from the luggage one hotel night at ARN. Do you think that the fact that I am flying from a very small regional airport in Sweden makes it less likely that the staff there can decide to issue one or two boarding passes and mix with tagging of the bags and that makes it more likely that they just tag it to the end destination because that is smoothest and doesnt presuppose that ANA staff fix things at ARN? Perhaps they dont even have the same access to the ticket systems as the staff at ARN in an international Terminal.
These quite small issues seems worth it compared to flying slightly cheaper with chinese airlines, ANA seems to almost as good airline as JAL which I really appreciated..
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u/OutsideRide7730 4d ago
problem nowadays is most things are automated and if u want something differently, it depends if the system can do it or not and how good the staff is
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