CPH is run by an investment bank, to understand an investment bank, lets understand the typical 21st century investment banker (and including all those professions in similar industries).
They get hired straight from the university and get their first employment contracts according to the amount of theoretical knowledge they remembered and got certified on their alma mater.
Then, the next further key skills they learn is:
How to talk smart, how to kiss the right shoes, how to deflect blame and how to extract money.
They are numbers in a computer system and are primarily judged by numbers in a computer system.
What they usually do not learn is:
Real entrepreneurial thinking, building strong social relationships with all sides of the equation (this is a line of defense against problems they usually don’t encounter), kind of “we are in this together” situation. They never face the hard ships of creating something from 0.
If they “create” something, they need smart business talk in order to get equipped with a pile of money and since they are very poor creators, they prefer to buy existing things just to milk them later as much as possible (things which others have created).
That’s a very boiled down description of the species which holds a majority of shares @CPH, they are around the globe the same, everywhere.. if one of you here are of that species, my apologies for the open words, I have met plenty of you and have no indications for something different.
Now, let’s picture these in crystal palaces born and raised guys and SAS people sitting in a room, I think the roles are clear, the CPH guys are the rich guys (since they dispose of a large pile of money which is btw. not theirs), SAS is the poor old sick man…
Who’s interest and bottom line is likely to win at this table?
Then, if you take the collection of circumstantial evidence further, there are going a couple of things @CPH against the fundamental interest of SAS, like not having all SAS/*A in one spot, like having all PAX traffic funneled and squeezed into CPH’s Øresund. Then, having an eye how carefully and central this Øresund is designed and set to all the traffic at CPH and how strange SAS CPH staff behaves as to the fast track topic, leaves for me rather the conclusion that SAS got their fast track for very expensive money and with a lot of restrictions to it.
What I would expect a SAS to do is to black mail these empty suits for eg. the same way they did it with all the cabin crews and pilots, if it is not too late.
The other option is that SAS gave already a sh*t about all the other *A PAX and caved in quick…that's what I personally feel to be true.
6 or half a dozen, the bill for this blood sucking vampire squid having its way @CPH is IMO much more on SAS then most think, there is little purpose in SAS being in an alliance if their so called “main hub” is nothing close to what a typical *A hub looks like and SAS does not have any capability to benefit from these optimized layouts, systems and structures. It rather disenfranchises a larger customer base which DOES look for a product they simply don’t get from SAS@CPH.
In that regard, Dear SAS, very weak game played, sorry..