Are there award seats to Thailand? We tracked 21 SAS routes for 134 days

Meanwhile, the routes to North America have award seats eleven months ahead. Same airline, same search, a completely different picture.

Over our 134 days, the search showed something to Thailand 98 times. 91 of those were all gone at a later check, no more than 392 hours afterwards. The short sightings that vanished again are not counted as award seats in this article. The longest-lasting was a flight home from Bangkok on 8 November, in Economy: it was seen on 19 October at 19:03 and was gone at the 01:14 check.

Six of the nine times, nine available seats showed in every cabin at once. Nine is the highest SAS shows. All were gone at the next check, at most 392 hours later. How long they were visible in between, we don't know. We only save what changes. No real release in our data looks like that. It looks like a technical fault, and we don't count them. The other 82 Thailand sightings involved only Economy or Premium Economy, and they were gone at a check one to 392 hours later.

The same thing happens on other routes. In a separate review of the first 81 days of the measurement, 25 June–14 September 2026, all three cabins suddenly showed nine seats and then vanished at the same time 18 times. 15 of the 18 happened between 23:00 and 08:00. In the night of 16 August it happened on four routes within two hours. That review is closed and is not recomputed every day like the other figures in this article.

The West Coast is an Economy coast. To Los Angeles, Economy is available out on 32 dates and Business on four. To San Francisco it is 126 against 14.

Further east the picture is mixed. Tokyo has had Business during the period, 58 dates out and 66 home. Right now Business is available on two dates out and one home. Seoul has had Business out on 45 dates, none of them right now.

And then Mumbai: 35 dates out, zero home. That row has a story.

Throughout the measurement period there has never been a single Business seat home from Mumbai. So a Business round trip on points cannot be booked today. The cabins may differ between outbound and return, though, so Business out and Premium Economy home can be booked.

Right now the award seats out and home end in the same month.

When this article was written in September 2026, 14 June 2027 was the last date out, and it had stood still since 8 August. Since then the edge has moved: the current last date, 1 October 2027, appeared on 6 November.

And it varies a lot over the winter. Most dates in September: Business home on 36 departure days, counted across all routes. Fewest in May: zero.

Business also comes in small portions. When SAS releases Business, it is 2.6 seats on average, and only one in five times four or more. Economy is released with 5.4 seats at a time on average. Right now, 51 of 288 Business dates have room for four, across all 21 routes. So a family of four has 51 dates to choose from. In Premium Economy, 631 of 806 dates have room for four.

Business doesn't stay as long either. Half of the Business seats that have disappeared lasted at most 2.0 days. For Premium Economy it was 3.6 days and for Economy 4.6. And the seats arrive at any time: one in four Business seats appears less than a month before departure, one in six more than six months before.

That sounds bleak, but the numbers also say something hopeful. Business has been available on more dates than a snapshot suggests. Over 134 days, Business has been available on 3,322 route-and-date combinations. Economy on 5,730. The gap is smaller than most people think. But Business doesn't stay, and that is why a random day looks empty. Anyone who looks often, or lets someone else look, has a better chance than the numbers for a single day suggest.

We keep looking. The figures in this article are read from our database every day, and if SAS releases seats to Thailand, it will be here first. If you want to know right away, you can set an alert on a route and we will tell you when something appears.