Card arrived this morning.
Box the same black card-board box as two years ago. Card looks unchanged. Same for two included bag tags.
Benefits have very slight improvements, but generally unchanged:
- Priority phone service
- Promise of a welcome gift to be sent out in the coming weeks (new, and not clear what it is)
- Free Quintesseally concierge service
- Goodie bag choice in addition to the above
- Guaranteed seat if ticket is booked 24 hours before departure
- 2 extra bags checked in on SAS and Widerĝe (same as diamond I believe)
- Guaranteed award seats in Scandinavia and Europe (new! Potentially valuable)
- 35% discount on "best availability" tickets
- 40% boost when bidding for an upgrade
- Always lounge access regardless of carrier flown and conference room access in Copenhagen (same as before, but now formalized)
- Free food and beverage in go
- Give away one diamond or two gold cards
- Promise of exclusive events and special offers (when previously London based this included e.g. a Christmas Lunch invitation, and Lucia in St. Pauls Cathedral)
- Credit card discounts same as Diamond - but card design reflect Pandion level
- Unspecified special privileges with Elite hotels, Hilton (Gold VIP), Park Inn, Scandic, Radisson, Thon hotels
- Hertz Presidents Circle membership, Sixt Advantage Circle, some slightly vague Avis benefits
I still expect the main benefit to be that they have a special team handling requests and that they go out of their way to accommodate requests when something goes wrong.
ScandiGB