Originally Posted by
miamiflyer8
It really isn't that difficult. SK does not pay for CPH Express nor does SK give access non-EB *G to their own Fast Track, this is why it flops. Award tickets are completely irrelevant. I highly doubt Aegean (or UA when they served CPH) pays for Fast Track at an outstation for their elites not traveling on their metal. Lufthansa's contract covers J pax, SEN, HON and all other *G traveling on LH and most likely OS and LX. It all comes down to which elites an airline decides to add to their contract and pay for it, so OP as TK*G on LH got access under published policy. It worked exactly as designed.
I mentioned economy class award tickets because it would work as a control across airlines when using OAL*G status since then the premium/flex stuff is no longer a confounding or untracked variable for what works and doesn’t work for priority security at CPH. Also, things that sometimes worked 24 months ago may not even work any longer.
The operating airline is the one that is generally responsible for covering any security screening charges, priority or otherwise, when it’s charged by the airport. The passengers’ airline FFP generally isn’t part of that priority screening cost picture, but a FFP relationship can be part of whether an operating airline decides to include just their own set of FFP elites, their own+preferred partner FFP elites, or their own + all partner preferred elites in the priority security screening arrangement.
Priority security at outstations is not necessarily a function of the airline adding it to a contract to pay for priority security. In many places priority security screening is part of the general allowances granted to the airline and included for the same price as regular security screening and/or for the flight fee structure charged by the airport regardless of the use or non-use of priority security screening. These arrangements between operating airline and airport are not permanent, and they have varied over time at CPH with regard to CPH Express too.
I mentioned “SK economy class award ticket flights as A3/UA*G flops at CPH Express” because that is definitely known and hasn’t changed. Same with regards to SK Fast Track itself at CPH for A3 and UA *Gs in regular economy class — it flops. SK*G on SK economy class award tickets at CPH Express also flops; and yet sometimes the agent cuts them a manual break with CPH Express, even as many other times they say to go back to SK Fast Track if wanting to have priority security at CPH.