SAS is opening a bigger, more stylish flagship lounge at Copenhagen Airport in June 2027, with private work pods, a bakery, and an exclusive top-tier zone.
Who might the top tier customers be? EBD and Pandeon? Or just Pandeon? AFKL usually only lets Ultis (+ La Premiere) into the aquariums.
I assume Gold will be excluded since they just went through discontinuation of gold lounges across the networks.
Diamond is the new Gold, Gold is the new silver. I hope they manage to keep the number of diamond members at a manageable level, as this place will be crowded as heck
The EBD numbers in Scandinavia weren’t going to hold up very well under the pre-Covid arrangements, so SAS recently even did an executive business credit card to supplement the other means for SAS’s home market customers to rack up points toward SAS elite status. At the end of the day, I expect EBD to be more like the old EBGold, EBG to be more like the old Silver but this done in a way to boost revenue from non-flight activity and cut costs incurred from its own elite status base.
I am hoping the new lounge has a stairway/elevator shortcut to the front of an “All Passports” passport control line, but that is just a wish at this point.
Referring to it as “Big, Beautiful…” may be accurate, but… *flashback* (can we please not?) I know, how SAS-sy.
It doesn’t solve a real problem, which is the lack of SAS lounge facilities in the non-Schengen part of CPH. The passenger experience for non-EU passport holders travelling out of Schengen from CPH on SK is woeful: unpredictable, understaffed passport queues (even pre-EES), which means needing to clear passport control earlier than at other European airports. SK’s peers at AF and KL have solved this at their home airports.
I am 99% certain this place will be horribly crowded as well. It'll look nicer no doubt, but what's the point when you can't see all the new things behind all the people and luggage.
The SAS lounges in CPH are the most underwhelming airline lounges I have visited (and I visited many). So it's about time that they do something about it. Good luck - but reading the comments it appears there is not much hope this will save the CPH lounge problem.
The seats and tables are very close. It looks spacious with the few people in the rendering but imagine it with every seat taken.
Premium Economy used to include lounge access while SAS was part of SarAlliance. That benefit has been cut.
Generic beige lounge. Lost all aspects of Scandinavian design and atmosphere.