Discover Airlines vs SAS

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.

Dimension by dimension

• Seat: SAS

  5/10 on the A330-200 / A330-300 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: Discover Airlines

  Median premium over the cheapest carrier on the same route: 10/10 against 7/10.

Common questions

Is Discover Airlines or SAS better to Europe?

Discover Airlines and SAS score level at 8.3/10 on verifiable product. On the four dimensions we can verify, Discover Airlines wins 1 and SAS wins 1. Service and food are not scored here because they cannot be read off a spec sheet.

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.