<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by AJLondon:
Okay, so some conflicting answers above to questions!!
Anyways here goes question 4 now:
4. If "Flights to Asia and US departs from pier C, flights to UK from pier A"
Then is it possible to connect between these two non schengen areas, without clearing passport control, say thru some walkway/bridge/shuttle etc (like one would do at FRA between non-sch gates A & B.)
Reason I'm asking this is, becuase on the way back I have a Thai friend coming back with me to the UK. And unless one can connect like we do at say FRA, then he would need to apply for a Schengen visa...
5. Also is there any website to check which gate number is allocated to which flight at CPH airport. I did check the airport website http://www.cph.dk/CPH/UK/ but this only gave arrival/departure details and not gate numbers.
thanks,
AJ
[This message has been edited by AJLondon (edited Feb 18, 2004).]</font>
OK. SAS flight from Heathrow generally arrive in Concourse A these days, though it is by no means guaranteed. Concourses A and D feature separate passport control areas - I certainly don't know of any connecting tunnel between the two - they are at completely differnet ends of the airport so I would be amazed if there were.
I would guess that, in the case of your friend, SAS or the airport authority should be able to lay on some transport to get you over to Concourses C and D (which share the same "non-Schengen" area), or else get the immigration people to escort you from one zone to the other. I can't believe this doesn't happen fairly regularly, and CPH are generally very well organised.
Call SAS in London and ask for a note to be made in the PNR or a request to be put through.
Some SAS flights do continue to arrive at and depart from Concourse D, in which case your problem would go away. When they do and don't seems pretty random though I would hope that their Flight Ops people would be able to tell you which gate was scheduled for use on the day in question.
The lounge (and most of the shops and restuarants) are located in the Schengen zone. It is a VERY nice lounge and as a SEN you get to use the Scandinavian Lounge upstairs - knocks the socks off the LH lounges at FRA (or indeed the LH lounges almost anywhere!).