SAS offers special rates for young people under 26 years of age. With the SAS Youth Fares, you can save up to 80% on flights with the Scandinavian airline. The fares are particularly attractive if you want to travel at short notice. Sometimes, there are also nice long-haul deals.
Flights to the far north are sometimes relatively cheap with easyJet or Norwegian, but you often also may have to dig deep into your pocket. However, if you are younger than 26, SAS has a top offer for you. As one of the few airlines in Europe, SAS offers special fares for young people.
Search & Book
You can only book the SAS Youth Fares via this SAS landing page. Make sure you go straight to this link. There, you will also find a low-price calendar, with which you can quickly and easily see when cheap flights are available.
The offer has almost no restrictions. There is no minimum stay, no advance booking period, and no expiration date. If available, you can easily book flights for the same day.
From/To Scandinavia
The great thing is that the prices are not only quite low but remain more or less fixed, even at short notice. Of course, you can’t book every flight like this, as they are sometimes fully booked, but if Youth Tickets are available, they are usually very cheap.
Here are some examples of round-trip prices:
- Stockholm – Helsinki: €75 (€101 w/ luggage)
- Stockholm – Stavanger: €95 (€121 w/ luggage)
- Stockholm – London: €105 (€131 w/ luggage)
- Gdansk – Copenhagen: €122
- Barcelona – Copenhagen: €126
- Milan – Bodo: €137 (€167 w/ luggage)
- Copenhagen – Munich: €155
- Copenhagen – Reykjavik: €161
The savings vary vastly from route to route. While you’re only saving €4 on the Stockholm-Helsinki route on those example dates (i.e. 5% discount), the same Gdansk-Copenhagen flights would cost €435 without the youth fare (i.e. 72% discount).
Long Haul
The Youth Fares also apply to long-haul routes, but the prices are no longer so attractive, especially because luggage is usually quite expensive. In addition, the long-haul flights are only available as round-trip tickets.
You can currently get the following prices with the Youth Ticket:
- Dublin – New York: €271
- Palma de Mallorca – New York: €283
- Milan – Los Angeles: €330 (€370 w/ luggage)
- Paris – Los Angeles: €341
- Brussels – Washington, DC: €350
- Paris – San Francisco: €363
- Paris – New York: €368
- Amsterdam – Los Angeles: €370
- Amsterdam – San Francisco: €370
- Dublin – Atlanta: €383
- London – Boston: €410
- Milan – Atlanta: €420
- Milan – Shanghai: €450
- Brussels – Shanghai: €465
- Warsaw – Shanghai: €498
- and more…
Except for that Milan-Los Angeles example, where luggage only cost €20 per direction, all other routes had prices of €50 per direction for one piece of checked luggage.
Still, the savings are nothing to laugh at. The same €271 flight to New York would cost €719 without the (62%) youth discount, and you’d pay €530 for the Milan-Los Angeles flights with luggage (37% discount).
Conclusion
While the prices of these youth fares are quite good, they are similar to SAS’ deal prices that we regularly post here, available for all ages. The biggest advantage of these youth fares is their availability. You can often score these prices on dates when SAS charges far more to older customers.