Originally Posted by
peocro
I addition, probably, unlike the preferential check in and the lounge access, the security fast track access privilege is not covered by the *A bylaws.
Again, SAS is (well, is supposed to be) a company that wants to make a profit, like CPH: so SAS looks after its customers, and CPH sells its services, like the CPH apartment lounge to various airlines
Hi Peocro, the fast track access is surely a privilege and has a purpose for any airline, because they want to have their PAX on the shortest way and in the most uncomplicated mode on their planes, this in order to have travelling with them as fast and as most convenient as possible.
The airport is per se only an auxiliary function, which in this particular case, works totally against the airline/traveller. Imagin if you have to get on a metro, to just to have to encounter a long zigzag detour through a myriad of shops, which turns the passage through the metro station into an even longer ride then then ride with the metro itselves. Its a bid comical, isn't it? What is important in public transport, the railway stations profit or the time and effort to get from A to B?
If they do that all in a shop like IKEA, I can always opt out to not go there, on an airport, I am supposed to accept being forced into that, meaning effectively, the passage through the airport takes alltogether longer that the flight on s/h.
Then, if these guys manage an airport, its a game of two totally different profiles of players, on one hand you have entrepreneurs like SAS, on the other hand you have XY which is designed to suck the live blood out of everyone around, not very entrepreneurial. In some cases, it will lead to a quick death, in cases like CPH it will likely lead to a slow death for SAS, very sure about that (we still are all paying the bills for the 2009 crisis).
Have a look on an investment banks agenda:
http://www.macquarie.com/mgl/com/pro...t-we-stand-for
And compare that to an entrepreneurial agenda:
http://www.fraport.com/content/frapo...-strategy.html
I hope you could agree that there is a big rift between both and the latter has its interests much more in a mutual strengthening for the long run and generates good profits by that, the beforementioned is there for the quick buck and everything else is doomed to suffer, its written in the DNA of them.
SAS is very important to Copenhagen, Scandinavia, any short term money interests are a lethal dose for them IMO.