You cant take any availability from seatmaps, especially not on SK, where non-members need to pay for almost all seats until OLCI. Premium+ Seats are Seats that you get for free as Diamond and Gold, but need to PE even in Business Plus Fare.

CPH allows this as well. Just follow the route for connections, and let them know you need to use the lounge.

Also, if you arrive from the US or UK then there is nothing stopping you from getting to the lounge area since there is no security. Japan is not on the list of "clean" countries yet? That's ridiculous. I lived there until 2014 and airports like MUC and CPH had started to route US and UK arrivals without security. And FRA unless you got a bus gate.

I recently arrived from Turkey at CPH but did not really notice the options since I headed straight to baggage claim. We got one of the first gates in C and there is massive construction going on. Schengen entry was painful because we arrived after an Air India flight. I guess that "unclean" countries arrive in C whereas clean ones get E gates these days?

C does both clean and unclean. I am not sure about E.

I think Japan is clean, but it has been a while since I arrived direct from Japan. Thank you SK for only flying on blue moons for a long while.

Japan is clean. Also funnily CAI is coming as clean. No idea how Denmark is making up their list.

They have a dice, two sides say clean, two sides says not clean, two says check further. Then they call out the country name and roll the dice

Where do you find a list with this info? CAI is clean but not IST, although I did not pay attention when I arrived. It must be unclean since we mixed with Air India pax at passport. They have the state of the art X-ray machines with seemingly EU standards in its operation at IST. The Fast Track at CPH still has old machines......

Flying out of ATL to CPH tomorrow evening. Put in my upgrade bid from Plus to Business a month ago. I have a strong bid but still haven't received an email. Do I need to go ahead and check in or can I wait till I receive the email?

$340 minimum bid accepted for 2 about 24 hours pre-flight CPH-IAD on 9/1. Plus to business. Minimum
bid had gone up to $450 but we stuck it out.

Booked a GO Light ticket and these are the upgrade prices currently. Considering the return but would ideally love for the outbound flight to drop since it's overnight. $570 still feels steep considering how cheap the GO Light ticket was.

SFO - CPH Plus $360, Business $760
CPH-SFO Plus $220, Business $570

Is 50000 points enough?
 

I’m trying to get an upgrade on a flight ARN-EWR in November (already in business homebound). Do you think 50 000 points is enough? It says “strong” on the site but I wanted to ask you guys anyway, since you’re the experts ☺️

Are you trying to upgrade from Economy or Plus?
Last time I checked a gate upgrade from Economy to Business was 50'000 points ;)

Oh sorry! From Plus to Business.

50'000 points is quite overkill imho. ;) That's what I paid for a fixed point-price upgrade from Economy to Business on EWR-OSL!

Ah, I see ☺️

How much do you recommend for a reasonable bid?

And if it doesn’t go through - can I buy an upgrade with points at gate if there’s seats available?