Frances,
WOW, great info! Thanks!

Fred,
I love your new avitar...very handsome!!! :)

I would prefer to fly LH, but I was reading on Flyer Talk that they are really stingy releasing their award seats ...sounds like, from what you said, that SAS is also stingy.

I have to say that I was impressed with a story about SAS some years back. My parents were travelling with their granddaughter on SAS in coach. I told my mom that it never hurts to ask to be upgraded, although it probably won't happen, especially on a foreign carrier. I guess she sheepishly asked, and the agent just smiled and issued their boarding passes without giving her any answer. When they looked closely at their passes, they realized that she HAD upgraded them for free! Anyway, I thought that was a nice story.