CPH-Flyer

I guess the even more over priced taxis will be quite happy to get a fair extra boost in revenue.....

nacho

I thought the Bologna system only harmonize the length of the study. I remember back in the days when I was visiting my sister in her university in Germany, there are a lot of students doing all kinds of subjects and a friend dropped out of his studies because it was too tough. It is tough and some of my sis's friends stayed behind to attempt to get a German degree (their major is German - basically they went there to "experience" Germany) and most of them actually quit and get no degree in the end (usually top grade Chinese pick medicine, law, architecture, business and engineering, so these are certainly not the hardest working students). I think it is an issue with Asian style studies that is not built for language and literature. This style works the best with STEM subjects.

I don't have any first hand knowledge about university level in DK nowadays - I might have to wait a year or 2 to see.

nacho

It can be cheap if 1 adult is bringing 3 kids to take the train. My kids really enjoyed the train ride

GUWonder

I appreciate the Arlanda Express despite its price. Sometimes it’s even saved me from having to take the overnight sleeper trains.

FlyingMoose

No idea who would use those unless you hate your hard earned money, Bolt and Uber are easily cheaper.

The AE is usually primarily filled with airline staff and tourists who assume its cheaper than car based transport.

nacho

AE is faster than driving if your destination is Stockholm C.

CPH-Flyer

It is really depending on your destination. For our office it has always been a taxi, as AE would zip past and I had to take a taxi back towards Arlanda, but for meetings within walking distance from centralen, AE is really easier to deal with. But you don't need to go much beyond centralen before you are probably back to a car.

GUWonder

Usually for destinations close enough to Stockholm C, it is. But it is not today, as it's still out of service.

Ordinarily, it can be either faster or slower than driving the entire way; but that is depending on where about Stockholm a person is coming from/going, the time of day/week/year, the Arlanda Express schedule, and the nature of how the person wants to get to and from Stockholm C.

I mix up how I get between ARN and the city. There is no single right way every time for me -- even for a fixed set of origin/destination it depends for me. But I am already missing the Arlanda Express option -- something I can't say about the sleeper train berths.

CPH-Flyer

I was checking for Haneda awards, which also showed me the cash+points pricing. Over 400K points each way for a a business smart booking. I guess this option has kind of become the Star Alliance upgrade awards of SAS; theoretically a good option but practically just useless.

FFlash

”old comment” from me but…

perhaps no mention since/regulars dont really hang on here but on BC instead 😉

Jainzar

Great to see the new security control at ARN. No more unpacking your carry-on.

GUWonder

That depends on which ARN screening checkpoint is in use by the traveler. The passenger screening checkpoint at T2 still involves taking out the electronics and liquids out of the cabin baggage since they don’t have the CT scanners. Terminal 4 and 5D and 5F screening checkpoints may also still be requiring unpacking of the electronics and liquids. The T5 primary screening checkpoint has the new CT scanner tech.

CPH too has a couple of new CT scanners — Rapiscan 920 CTs IIRC — at the main screening checkpoint to get airside. But most of the CPH screening lanes don’t have the CT scanners and thus it is still laptops and liquids unpacked from the carry-ones. At CPH the new CT scanners are closest to the CPH Express feeding lane when coming over directly from the SAS check-in terminal area, but they were not in use on any of the times I was there this week,

Fredrik74

The old T5 checkpoints should close soon, shouldn't they? I thought the new one was meant to replace those?

I'm hoping they can extend this to T2 soon but I'm not expecting anything.

GUWonder

When not going through ARN T2 security to get airside, I use the T5 checkpoint where Amex Plat/Centurion card holders get priority security screening.

I’m not yet convinced that these CT scanners will make things better in the aggregate for my trips out of the SAS hub airports.

FlyingMoose

Can't wait to get these in T2 either despite the usually very short queues. Not having to unpack like in AMS or TSA Pre makes security that much less frustrating. The less interaction needed with the highschool dropouts managing these checkpoints the better.