nacho

The reason why Sweden looks towards Denmark is not only immigration issues, it's also crime, education and healthcare.

In general Danes feel safe here. I had a parcel containing a fixed laptop (a box with ACER all over it) lying in my driveway for almost 2 weeks. If this was in Sweden it would have been gone for a long time. Also, we can actually leave our regular bikes in our garden/carport/terrace, again in my neighbourhood in Sweden it would have been stolen. I used to live in a town with 11k people in Southern Sweden with mostly white people. A friend used to live in Staffanstorp told me, "we have been storing our biked indoors because if it's outside it would be stolen". My old neighbourhood has a FB group and when I was in it, there were lots of posts about various things like teenagers used trash bins to block their front doors, they found someone emptying trash all over their gardens, and this one is pretty epic: someone broke into someone's shed to steal their frozen food. There are a lot of unsolved crime in Sweden and it seems no one can do anything about it.

This is part of the reason why we moved back to DK. Education is another thing, Denmark's poor education system is better than the Swedish ones. I know some Danish families moved back from Sweden to Denmark (so the kids are native Danish speakers), they sent them to regular elementary school. Their academic level was so low that the school had to put extra resources to tutor them and the school gave them a month to catch up, if not they have to be put in a lower grade. My kids received IB education in Sweden and when they came to Dk and enter IB/IGCSE, they had to catch up like hell. My daughter who had good grades in Sweden asked me why her classmates know so much more than she does. My youngest was really happy with his new school and finally learning properly. All my kids said most of their classmates are much nicer in DK than SE.

Healthcare - in DK we don't pay anything to go to the GP, hospitalization etc. It was much better than 20 years ago and now it's pretty bad (although it's not as bad as the Swedish healthcare).

GUWonder

How much money will SAS get from the electricity consumer subsidy being rolled out by the Swedish government? Last I checked, the cost for electricity in Sweden may even have been lower last month than at the same time in 2021. But the money is to go out anyway.

FlyingMoose

I'm pleasantly surprised the government actually does something for a change for the folks actually paying the taxes the subsidy is paid from.

nacho

Not sure if it's good or bad. If a government is handing $ out, the $ will be used to spend it on whatever = more inflation.

I still subscribe to Willys ad and the prices are crazy now compared to last year. How much does a liter of Willy's own brand "lätt" milk cost nowadays? Last year it was around 8 in Malmo. Someone told me in Gbg area it was 15 a few months back.

A lot of people are in trouble because of this, also in DK. There are more people asking for "Christmas help" and going to free grocery handouts.

In DK we pay a big deposit for all our utilities including electricity, that's why we don't have any risk of any energy company going down because people can't pay their bills. I hate that system as it made my bill super unclear and if I every sign out of them I have to try to get it back, and that deposit is calculated based on something. I'd rather they take a fixed amount - at least I know when I sign off I need to get that amount back.

GUWonder

Given cancellations and delays at ARN today and how backed up the airline service centers can be handling travelers with disrupted travel plans, it’s nice to see the SAS lounge still able to help to deal with some of these issues. Sadly for some, the ability to get airside at ARN with an already issued boarding pass dives the moment SAS cancels the flights, and then they get sent back to the airline service centers.

SAS@ARN’s prioritization for handling business class and Star Golds at the service centers seem to have room for improvement if the point is to have such travelers jump to the front of the wait to have their service receipt number called up. Can be literally faster to fix the situation online yourself and deal with SAS after getting airside and/or flying on the same or a different ticket.

More inflationary pressure indeed, but the Swedish government is in the business of kissing up to the villa, Volvo and vovve crowd and wannabes of that sort, and this cash kickback is meant for that. And they are counting on inflation to subside and then act as deflationary drivers when pre-Covid supply chains are back to normal. [More immediately, they just don’t want to see their home values plummet and see a repeat of the 1990s. ]

For what it’s worth, given the changes the government seems to be making, I would reduce Sweden’s ranking as a long-term investment destination just because of that. Money will get a much better return on long term investments where the population growth — and those serving such population growth — will be over the next couple of decades: Asia and Africa. Europe still is coming to terms with there being a Germany+France inside China, and now the US intends to make India the next super-Germany from Asia. Expect insecurity levels and government conniptions to placate insecure publics to rise because of this kind of stuff.

CPH-Flyer

Does anyone track the aircraft registrations of their flights? Am curious if the new SAS app is correct.

DRC1985

Any idea of what the current menu offering is on ORD-CPH in J?

vanillabean

If you can’t get enough of airport holiday charm, A Storm for Christmas may be for you.

Amexpat

Well, being stuck at OSL is not such a horror story. Can't think of a better airport in northern Europe to be stuck at. I've actually slept in the terminal a number of times, either coming in on the last train before a 6:00 flight, or missing the last train out.

Being stuck at ARN overnight would be a horror story.

FlyingMoose

OSL has a reasonable Raddisson Blu just outside the terminal. As long as you avoid the restaurant or bring the patience of the pope you'll be fine.

GUWonder

Was that land-side sleeping, or air-side sleeping at OSL? And was that sleeping in an area available for free to the general population with a flight ticket?

I’ve done my fair share and then some of sleeping at airports, but it’s been a while.

I think I found some ok air-side sleeping spots at ARN a few weeks back, but I’m surely not going to be pulling a Snowden at SVO.

Amexpat

For departures, it's land-side. For a 6:00 am flight I find it less of a hassle to get to the airport with the last train, around 12:30 than take the early flytoget, which cuts it close for check in. I've always found a padded place to lay vertical. Either the couches in the restaurant or benches. I then check in at 4:00 or so and am in the lounge at 5:00.

For arrivals, I've slept in the baggage hall on one of the many padded benches if I arrive too late for the last train. It's usually only for a few hours.

No one has hassled me on either side. There's usually a lot of people sleeping land-side, my guess around 100.

oliver2002

https://www.sleepinginairports.net/g...port-guide.htm

nacho

Sounds a lot better than YYZ.

Nick Art

I can provide you the menu of EWR-OSL, however the menu didn't correspond with what was actually offered...