Originally Posted by
SK989
SAS is honestly lying in the article. If you look at some destinations in the Nordic/Baltic region SAS passengers in Plus or with EBG/EBD status will have no lounge access at all from 2017. Why? Well, there are no Star Alliance lounges there and SAS will not offer lounge access to the lounges that do exist to their premium passengers any more - to save money. It's not small destinations we are talking about either: TLL, RIX, VNO, KEF to mention some. TLL for example has up to 7 daily departures with SAS.
The corporate bs from SAS about "improving the travel experience" does not fly with me. SAS is cutting costs, devaluating their Plus product without lowering the price or offering something better. They are not fooling me nor many others I hope.
Fully agreed. GDN will have one more (5th) daily flight from/to CPH and one more destination, Bergen, in 2017 apart from CPH, OSL and ARN, but will have no lounge access for EBG/EBD. Sic!
Sure, it was quite easy to qualify for *A Gold in SAS and have all the privileges and IMHO that was sth which gained them lots of customers (including me), maybe too many. Now, I will choose other airlines, SAS is not so cheap... I can live without Fast Track (crowd is mostly before 6:00 and sometimes in the afternoon). I do not also fly with 4x 23kg on intra-European in Plus (always with 1 bag basically) so I do not need that too.
Not sure what was mentioned here before about flying with other *A carrier with lounge access. Will check that on... 01FEB in Aberdeen - yeah, Aberdeen Swissport lounge is also terminated then
Hopefully I will fly with LH and get lounge access. If not, PP will save me!
I hope they will improve SAS lounges in the hubs. Comparing to Maple Leaf lounge in FRA or lounges for *A Gold members in WAW or PEK they simply suck (food selection does not even exist, only basic strong alcohols, some chips, coke or coffee/tea...).
I see two consequences: They gonna lose all premium pax or all pax outside Scandinavia at all.