klmml

Priority pass won't help you in OSL, the contract lounge there doesn't accept it. And in HEL, the Star Alliance flights depart from the T1 mid-teens gates, so it's a huge trek from the Aspire lounge.

kauppias

Yes so I just heard from a friend I guess Diners still works in OSL? Luckily not many connections for me in OSL. HEL SK lounge I don't mind at all. Luckily lately my connections in ARN/CPH have been under one hour which is perfect 😀

ksu

EBG is more common. I see a couple of other people with EBD tags on my usual domestics, but not that many. And there are not that many people getting free drinks in GO.

ksu

It was very busy this afternoon (school break is next week, today was supposed to be one of the biggest travel days ever at OSL). The airport was overflowing, and the lounge appeared full, but it was still possible to find a table.

Their South African red wine was undrinkable though. And the menu exactly the same as a week ago.

AHO

It's quite fascinating that some EBD people think that they deserve dedicated lounge or dedicated section in the lounge for EBD.

I can understand that HON members want similar things (and Lufthansa, Austrian and SWISS meet the request) because HON members spend quite sum of money on the tickets of these airlines.

But EBD?
It's quite easy to become EBD and no requirement like HON members (Business and First class fare only).

kauppias

Well if you are referring to me I am still just a EBG and it was just a suggestion. Certainly there SHOULD be more perks the more you fly...

CPH-Flyer

There should be. But then there should also be some equivalent qualifying criteria. Get the cards easy, get limited benefits. It goes hand in hand. Diamond is after all "only" 100K basis points like a Lufthansa Senator card. And the EBG quite close to Silver criteria on Lufthansa.

ksu

SAS has a challenge in that EBD doesn't give that many advantages over EBG. Non-expiry of points (which is given already at the FTL/Silver level of LH), one free drink in Go and gifted EBG being the main ones. The member level comparable to HON is in any case EBP, but given the opacity of how to qualify, it is difficult to compare.

view

Just mentioning HON end EBD in same sentence is kind of funny. One you get by only flying paid C and F, the other you can get with 90 legs in the back of the bus domestic. As long as it is so easy to get EBD it will be hard for SAS to do something special other than the things already in place today.

Jainzar

At M&M your status is valid for 2 years while it is just one at EB. So yes, you need 100k / 90k to qualify for SEN / Diamond, but if you want to have it for 2 years it is 100k / 180k. So the bar for keeping the status is in total way higher.

AHO

But the point is, EBD is not even close level of HON.
So EBDs want dedicated lounge or dedicated section in the lounge is a far overreached wish, I think.
If it was from EBP (Pandion), it's another thing.

CPH-Flyer

For EBD you at least have *G for two years as SK always does a soft landing. So your downgrade from EBD never goes lower than EBG.

Jainzar

2 years of EBG are also 90k which are nearly 100k like the SEN.

Given that the offerings in the Gold and business lounge are quite similar (except for booze) I would merge both lounges and add a premium lounge with a greatly improved food offer. The access rule can be simple as:

• EBP: always
• EBD: on SK flight
• EBG: on SK flight in C (so intra-EU SAS Plus would qualify)

For everybody else with lounge access is the other lounge with an offering similar to the current ones.

This would raise the value of EBD and it would also increase the value of Plus tickets intra-EU for EBG on a SK hub.

ksu

That would be a "solution" for the current lounges in the INT part of OSL, where there are two lounges, one Business/Plus and one *G.

This discussion is about the new lounge in the DOM part of OSL, accessible to departing INT passengers, but not (without hassle) to connecting INT-INT passengers. This lounge is thus mainly a lounge for domestic travellers, and it is not divided into two sub-lounges as the INT lounge is.

oliver2002

Spent some time there on Wednesday night. A significant improvement for the domestic pax who previously only had that crummy cafe at the end of the A pier. I could imagine intl pax originating in OSL could use the new lounge if they remember to get going early enough.

Since I was in the lounge at 10pm it was deserted. The seating areas are nice, the tables well organised. The sofa areas are a desaster: Very odd to sit in, terrible for consuming food or drinks, and a waste of space since people are unlikely to sit close to each other on those sofa sets. The ultimate crime in that area is the missing plug points: there is no way to charge anything anywhere, or they have hidden it well.

The gym was funky to look at but I still can imagine anyone going there for a work out while flying domestic or connecting to a domestic flight. The moment the sponsorship of SATS runs out that place will close down. What a waste of space.