Originally Posted by
jerry_greece
It's going to be interesting to see how SK will treat their own elites in terms of lounge access on domestic routes. There are plenty of such routes in Norway and Sweden and in Oslo there is even a "domestic" lounge.
Switching to Skyteam shouldn't require any changes to how SK treats its own Eurobonus customers.
Skyteam rules - including the lounge access rule that only allows lounge access ahead of a domestic sector when it's combined with a same-day international Skyteam flight - are a minimum standard that must be observed by all members. It doesn't mean that individual airlines cannot go further. Any Skyteam airline is free to offer further benefits above these minimum standards if they so wish - either to just their own status customers, or (as in the case of Air France allowing domestic lounge access even on purely domestic itineraries) to all Skyteam status customers.