Originally Posted by
mduell
The Europeans haven't really come around on the whole low-hassle experience we're used to in the US where you checkin online, head to the lounge via a series of priority lines, then straight to pre-boarding. Very attached to the sticker game and implementing it for the lowest common denominator pax without differentiated handling for different pax profiles.
What the OP experienced is a result of the mandated demands set up by the US Government. The EU/European governments didn’t mandate this pre-boarding supplemental security protocol for flights bound to the US.
Of my many CPH-US flights during March 2020-2023 operated by SAS, I have received a grand total of zero security contractor stickers on my passports for those flights.