Air Europa vs SAS
Air Europa and SAS score level at 8.3/10 on verifiable product.
By Jon Miksis · cabin data verified · fares for travel November 8–14, 2026
Best product each one flies
Scored on what can be verified. Service, food and ground recovery are absent deliberately: they need someone in the seat, and they live in the reviews rather than here.
One caveat on the Value line, stated rather than buried: Value is computed from business fares, and a carrier with too few of them does not get a Value score at all. Where you see a dash, we have fewer than three priced business routes for that airline and did not want to invent a figure from one or two — so its product score is the mean of three dimensions rather than four, and it is not directly comparable to a score built on hundreds of fares. The airlines with the most fares behind them are named on the business-class ranking.
Air Europa
787-9 (new cabin)
- Seat
- 8/10
- IFE
- 8/10
- Lounge & bags
- 10/10
- Value
- 7/10
- Product score
- 8.3/10
SAS
A330-300 / A350-900
- Seat
- 8/10
- IFE
- 8/10
- Lounge & bags
- 10/10
- Value
- 7/10
- Product score
- 8.3/10
Dimension by dimension
Seat: level
8/10 on the 787-9 (new cabin) against 8/10 on the A330-300 / A350-900.
IFE: level
Screens, connectivity and power: 8/10 against 8/10.
Lounge & bags: level
What the fare includes before you board: 10/10 against 10/10.
Value: level
Median premium over the cheapest carrier on the same route: 7/10 against 7/10.
Where both were priced on the same dates
Every fare is November 8–14, 2026, so a difference between two rows is a difference between two airlines and nothing else. These are economy fares, while the cabin scores above describe the business product — read them as how each airline prices against its competitors, not as what its business seat costs.
| Route | Cabin | Air Europa | SAS | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JFK → OPO | economy | $1048 | $605 | SAS by $443 |
| JFK → MAD | economy | $968 | $609 | SAS by $359 |
| MIA → FCO | economy | $721 | $659 | SAS by $62 |
| MIA → MXP | economy | $709 | $691 | SAS by $18 |
| MIA → SVQ | economy | $723 | $861 | Air Europa by $138 |
| MIA → MUC | economy | $742 | $726 | SAS by $16 |
| MIA → AMS | economy | $738 | $923 | Air Europa by $185 |
| MIA → ZRH | economy | $751 | $793 | Air Europa by $42 |
| JFK → SVQ | business | $3993 | $5190 | Air Europa by $1197 |
| JFK → MUC | business | $4161 | $5963 | Air Europa by $1802 |
| MIA → SVQ | business | $4443 | $5689 | Air Europa by $1246 |
| MIA → ZRH | business | $4492 | $5674 | Air Europa by $1182 |
| MIA → MUC | business | $4561 | $5738 | Air Europa by $1177 |
Common questions
- Is Air Europa or SAS better to Europe?
- Air Europa and SAS score level at 8.3/10 on verifiable product. On the four dimensions we can verify, Air Europa wins 0 and SAS wins 0. Service and food are not scored here because they cannot be read off a spec sheet.
- Which is cheaper, Air Europa or SAS?
- On the 13 routes where both were priced for the same week (November 8–14, 2026), Air Europa was cheaper on 8 and SAS on 5. Every pair of fares is the same departure and return date in the same cabin, so the difference is the airline rather than the dates or the cabin.
- Does the aircraft change the answer?
- Not on seat: both carriers fly a consistent product across the aircraft we have verified.
- Has Jon flown either of these?
- Neither, so this page is product facts and fares only. Any review we publish of either will be labeled Researched until that changes.
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