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Oct 18, 2022, 11:14 am
#6842
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If the Swedish authorities could manage to get off their paranoia kick and returned to general Swedish passport expiration periods being 5 years for kids and increasing adult passport validity to 10 years, they would not have had as much of a mess as they have had this year and had even before there was any Finnish fire to blame.
US passports for in-person applications at the US embassies in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden are typically turned around with new passports available for pickup by applicants within less than 16 calendar days of showing up at the embassies for the application. Appointments can be a challenge to land at times, but nothing like the crazy appointment problems Sweden has been having this year.
US passports for in-person applications at the US embassies in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden are typically turned around with new passports available for pickup by applicants within less than 16 calendar days of showing up at the embassies for the application. Appointments can be a challenge to land at times, but nothing like the crazy appointment problems Sweden has been having this year.
Oct 18, 2022, 2:47 pm
#6843
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While I would love to have all my SK Scandinavia-US flights scheduled for post-5pm departures and all my SK flights in the other direction able to get me into CPH and ARN by 6:30am , SK seems to think it’s better for their fleet utilization and revenue maximization to not cater to my schedule.
Given what I’ve seen of the economy class fares for some of the US West Coast-ARN/CPH flights, not sure SAS can do worse even if they cater to any of our desired schedules. That said, it wouldn’t surprise me if SAS would do itself better longer term by cutting back on its own West Coast service.
Given what I’ve seen of the economy class fares for some of the US West Coast-ARN/CPH flights, not sure SAS can do worse even if they cater to any of our desired schedules. That said, it wouldn’t surprise me if SAS would do itself better longer term by cutting back on its own West Coast service.
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Oct 18, 2022, 4:40 pm
#6844
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What more commonly comes back now to Copenhagen are the ugly polycarbonate biodata page version. And along with that came these slower turn times.
The regular registered mail from Denmark to Sweden with US passports can be a wild card. I wouldn’t count on that if in a rush and really wanting to make the trip with a current US passport.
A Swedish authority involved with Swedish passport issuance this week said things had sped up a bit and delivery times to the Swedish police stations weren’t all as bad as indicated here: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstan...okningsperiod/.
The UA EWR-ARN timing is pretty good for me . The same cannot be said by me for UA ARN-EWR.
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Oct 18, 2022, 10:31 pm
#6845
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Oct 19, 2022, 12:21 am
#6846
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Back when then SkyTeam partners CO and DL each had their 757s connecting the NYC area with ARN on the same days, their flights were timed pretty closely and sort of like this for the ARN-US flights.
Anyone else here remember the ridiculous lounge situation at ARN when for a brief while ARN lounge access was the same for only 3 of the following 4 circumstances:
DL Platinum in CO economy class
CO Platinum in DL economy class
DL Platinum in DL economy class
CO Platinum in CO economy class
because one of these two then-Skyteam carriers went cheap and told the contract lounge not to allow in their own elites in economy class?
This was the kind of thing I would have expected from SAS with contract lounges, but SAS later took it further and ditched contract lounge access entirely. Speaking of which, anyone here holding out hope that SAS will get back into granting contract lounge access? Please don’t hold your breath.
Anyone else here remember the ridiculous lounge situation at ARN when for a brief while ARN lounge access was the same for only 3 of the following 4 circumstances:
DL Platinum in CO economy class
CO Platinum in DL economy class
DL Platinum in DL economy class
CO Platinum in CO economy class
because one of these two then-Skyteam carriers went cheap and told the contract lounge not to allow in their own elites in economy class?
This was the kind of thing I would have expected from SAS with contract lounges, but SAS later took it further and ditched contract lounge access entirely. Speaking of which, anyone here holding out hope that SAS will get back into granting contract lounge access? Please don’t hold your breath.
Oct 20, 2022, 12:50 pm
#6847
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Oct 21, 2022, 12:54 pm
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In Denmark, heard that Sweden wants to make border control checks permanent for Denmark to Sweden traffic. And it seems accurate. Sadly, it seems like some people never learn from the messes of the past, as Sweden has some who even wants to return to the same set up that led to the mess at CPH airport that was hitting cross-border train travelers around 7 years ago.
DL tried ATL-ARN service for a while and didn’t find it worth keeping. ATL used to have a Swedish consulate, but that apparently didn’t indicate enough traffic to keep ATL-ARN in business.
DL tried ATL-ARN service for a while and didn’t find it worth keeping. ATL used to have a Swedish consulate, but that apparently didn’t indicate enough traffic to keep ATL-ARN in business.
Oct 21, 2022, 1:17 pm
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Oct 22, 2022, 11:12 am
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Even with all those Georgia peaches -- no substantial market for American peaches in Sweden -- DL didn't think ARN-ATL was all that peachy for it.
The airlines seem to end up rediscovering that US-ARN and ARN-US demand is concentrated in such a way that there is a limited long-haul network profile that works with ARN.
The airlines seem to end up rediscovering that US-ARN and ARN-US demand is concentrated in such a way that there is a limited long-haul network profile that works with ARN.
Oct 23, 2022, 6:09 am
#6851
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I never truly understood the Swedish obsession with border controls (even before the extremists took over in the last elections) but perhaps Schengen indeed may not be for them with this 19th century mentality.
Oct 24, 2022, 1:23 am
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I can't see how that could be done without withdrawing from the Schengen Agreement, with all the consequences it implies.
I never truly understood the Swedish obsession with border controls (even before the extremists took over in the last elections) but perhaps Schengen indeed may not be for them with this 19th century mentality.
I never truly understood the Swedish obsession with border controls (even before the extremists took over in the last elections) but perhaps Schengen indeed may not be for them with this 19th century mentality.
Oct 24, 2022, 7:12 am
#6854
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There is even a court ruling that prohibits these things sticking for more than six months. One of its last acts in government for the most recent former Swedish government: extend the border controls for six months from November. Amusingly for most of this year, these Swedish border checks are more often not around than they are around when coming from Denmark into Sweden — by rail at least; and by air they seem to almost never have been around and making it easy to fly on SAS as Micke Moussa between CPH and Sweden even if the person looks more like Pippi Longstockings.
The number of CPH-ARN trips I took on SAS far exceeds the number of ARN-CPH trips.
Oct 24, 2022, 10:08 am
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