Oops, then I apologize for giving outdated info. Are you saying that in your last 12 visits, in most cases you have actually been denied entry? And that they are actually scanning (also mobile?) boarding cards? I didn’t think they even had facilities for that.

I am saying this: for my last twelve visits to Pontus in the Air, they have required presentation of the Amex Plat/Centurion card and boarding pass of the person presenting the Amex card for use of the Amex lounge part. I haven’t been denied access on arrival into ARN, nor on departure from ARN, but that’s now also because I always have a boarding pass to get/be airside at ARN when I am using any of the ARN Terminal 5 lounges.

Pontus in the Air does have a facility to scan paper and electronic boarding passes; and if the scan of a boarding pass doesn’t work, then they can manually key in the boarding pass information. I saw it again within the past 12 hours. So make that my past 13 times at least.

When I have a flight to or from Arlanda on any given date, I always have a boarding pass with Arlanda as the origin or destination. And those are the only times when I use Arlanda lounges. Nothing that interesting about that.

I don’t always have my next flight’s boarding pass on hand; but when I use the Arlanda lounges, I always have a boarding pass with Arlanda as the origin or destination covering the date on which I am using the lounges. Nothing that interesting about that either.

I do a few dozen sub-24 hour trips from/to Stockholm a year as of late, on top of my other trips. Yesterday I was at the Pontus in the Air lounge for more hours than I wanted because of flight delays. The duck leg with lingonberries and purée carrot was about as good as it gets for airport lounge food in Europe or the Americas, with the exception of some first class lounge facilities with menu service.

I wouldn’t say it’s an interesting life as much as I just get around and make use of the programs/benefits that work for me where I am or otherwise frequent. That and I hang out at airports on arrival and before departure for many a sub-24 hour visit. For Stockholm, this means I sometimes eat breakfast on arrival at Pontus in the Air, head to the Clarion Arlanda hotel gym for my shower (courtesy of Nordic Choice Club Platinum status), then head into the city for like 12 hours and then cut out of Stockholm by air or land. And other times I stay for a night or two or three.

For what it’s worth, I managed to get some sort of SJ Prio elite status this year too.

Ok, thank’s for the clarification. So a non-ARN originating boarding pass is sufficient. Makes me wonder why they have then started to ask for boarding passes at all. Maybe I should’t, because of my ancient experience of getting airside without a proper boarding pass. But for the thread purpose it is good to know that the Pontus lounge can indeed be used as an arrival lounge for those in need.

Probably instituted the boarding pass demand because of how the lounge is paid and because someone didn’t want to pay for non-passenger use of the lounge. Even if Amex budgeted 500 SEK/month in lounge expense per Platinum card holder, it would soon be over budget if an airside airport worker with the Plat card and one guest were to go there every working day. And since news about a very good deal spreads fast nowadays, it wouldn’t be long before Amex Plat would be the airport worker meal pass at ARN. Also, this kind of boarding pass check and information retention thing probably reduces the scope and scale of disputes over being billed excessively by a lounge operator.

The Pontus lounge seems to only want one boarding pass even when coming in with an included guest. Same kind of dynamic seems applicable to ARN Priority Pass lounges too.

YMMV, but when I have guested someone in at the PP lounge at T2, but using my Finnair Plus Gold card, they have asked my guest for a boarding pass.

It will be interesting to see if Pontus lounge facility on arrival — that is, no onward flight boarding pass — is going to end for Platinum cardholders sometime after March 21/22 of this year.

The regular Amex Centurion lounges (at least in the US) are killing off on-arrival Centurion lounge access for Platinum cardholders.

For the Pontus lounge facility at Stockholm-ARN, access on arrival ended on or about January 27th, 2019. Since late in January, they have been told to deny arrival passengers with Amex Plat/Centurion cards if only having a same-day arrival boarding pass for ARN.

Yes. It is in T5 where all SK flights for domestic and Schengen destinations depart from. It’s small, but if you have your own entertainment with you, you will be well fed and there’s descent free drinks (beer, wine).