SAS All-Business 737 to Stavanager

Houston-Stavanger
Scandinavian 952
737-700ER wet leased from Privatair
9:45P-2:15P +1 (sked)
9:40P-1:25P +1 (actual)
September 12, 2015
Departed 23/44
Seats 9CD

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Pleasant crew of 4 flight attendants welcomed us. OK, now this is how a 737 should be configured!

With only 50% of the seats sold tonight, most of us had a seat and a bed.   I selected cross-aisle seats in row 9 just to be safe and we had the entire back of the plane to ourselves. Seats are clearly business class, pretty dated and little too firm for my liking.  

Lots of leg room.

Pretty cool when you have two seats to yourself. Angled sort-of-flat bed with very nice duvet.

Pre departure champers in real glass, unlike UA or AA.

Tonight's menu.

And the amenity kit.  Meh.

Getting ready to go.

Dimming the cabin lights.

Once in the air, our crew started service very quickly.  And the seat belt sign off while we were still climbing. Not much of a towel, but still bigger than AA's.

Showtime.

No built in IFE, so SAS distributes pre-loaded iPads.

Pretty limited list of TV shows.

At least you need to plug in your headphones to operate. 

But really limited movie selections... like a total of 18. Looks like Argo again. 

The extra seat made for a very comfy setup. Dinner and a movie.  

The chicken starter with jicama, mango julienne and fig mostarda was really good.

One of the nice things about SAS in this flight is that all the entrées were displayed on the cart so you could see what you were getting. I selected the seared sea bass which was absolutely sensational.

Perfectly moist, with sticky rice, asparagus and beurre blanc sauce.

The almond and crumble tart was a tad dry.

After the movie, I hopped over to my bed to sleep or at least try to sleep. Angled "flat" isn't really flat and indeed something less than flat was the "sweet spot" or least uncomfortable setting. After four hours of not so good sleep, I awoke to breakfast. Wow, what a substantial spread.

We started our descent about 20 minutes out.

Welcome to rainy Stavanger.

Although not the best for sleeping, it was a pleasant flight with excellent well paced service. And the food was outstanding... way better than anything UA or AA serves in international "First Class". Not sure I'd do it again as we're spoiled by Lufthansa but it's certainly a convenient way to Norway and good deal at only 45,000 Aeroplan miles and $34.30 in taxes/fees.

To passport control.