Rickard Gustafson CEO of SAS during the ITAA AGM in Dublin, June 2 2016
SAS Scandinavian Airlines has terminated the contract to allow its business passengers and frequent fliers use the Anna Livia lounge and fast track services at Dublin airport.
The airline is cancelling arrangements with third-party operators and concentrating on key routes and as a result cancelled access to airport-managed lounges. EuroBonus members and business class passengers will lose access to 26 lounges and 24 fast-track programmes around Europe.
- Lounges discontinued Jan 1: Dublin, Billund, Dubrovnik, Nice, Riga, Split, Tokyo Narita, Venice, Vilnius
- Fast track discontinued Jan 1: Dublin, Milan Malpensa, Milan Linate, Rome Fiumicino, Vilnius
- Lounges discontinued Feb 1: Aalborg, Aberdeen, Bucharest, Alicante, Barcelona, Birmingham, Bologna, Budapest, Edinburgh, Faro, Gdansk, Keflavik, Krakow, London Heathrow T4 (Plaza Premium), Gran Cararia, LIverpool, Manchester, Malaga, Malta, Milan Linate, Newcastle, Palma, Palermo, Poznan, Prague, Pisa, Rome Fiumicino, Sardinia Olbia, St Petersburg, Tallinn, Tel Aviv, Valencia, Wroclaw
- Fasttrack discontinued Feb 1: Geneva, Malaga
- SAS lounges still available Stockholm Arlanda, Copenhagen, Oslo, Ålesund, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Chicago, Luleå, Malmö, Newark, Paris CDG, Tromsø, Trondheim,
- Star Alliance lounges still available Athens, Berlin Tegel, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, London Heathrow T2 (3 lounges), Milan Malpensa, Munich, Stuttgart, Thessaloniki, Warsaw, Vienna, Zurich.
- SAS Business lounges still available Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, LAX, Miami, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo Narita, Washington Dulles,
- Fasttrack still available (Scandinavia): Stockholm-Arlanda, Copenhagen, Oslo, Aalborg, Ålesund, Bergen, Billund, Bodø, Gothenburg, Stavanger, Trondheim
- Fasttrack still available (international): Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Birmingham, Bologna, Bremen,, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Gdansk, Hanover, Hamburg, Helsinki, Innsbruck, Krakow, London Heathrow, Manchester, Munich, Newcastle, Palma de Mallorca, Paris CDG, Poznan, Prague, Riga, Thessalonika Stuttgart, Tallinn, Salzburg, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Venice, Vienna, Zurich
The carrier said in a statement: “to be able to continue and invest, expand and improve SAS Lounges and fast track offer, SAS will end our collaboration with some of our contracted lounges operated by third-parties. The result will be a continued improvement of SAS’s own offer where it benefits most of our Plus/Business travellers, members and 29 million yearly passengers. We will be investing in new and bigger domestic lounges at Arlanda and Oslo Gardemoen as well as upgrading our international SAS Lounges in New York, Paris and Chicago“.
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