Friday, March 28, 2025
SAS has offered a major replace that can have an effect on passengers who’ve PLUS SAS tickets for intercontinental flights, as of April 1, 2025. Based on this new coverage, the holders of SAS PLUS tickets will lose entry to the SAS rooms, placing the service degree on-line with that of the usual SAS GO. This modification doesn’t apply to SAS Plus tickets to journey throughout the Nordic area or Europe.
Passengers who reserved their Plus SAS tickets earlier than March three, 2025 will proceed to get pleasure from entry to the lounge. The halls affected by this coverage are positioned at airports the place SAS operates their very own amenities, together with Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Chicago and New York (Newark).
The airline has defined that the choice comes from the necessity to administer the capability of the room throughout most journey instances. Whereas this isn’t described as a seasonal adjustment, it’s anticipated to be a everlasting coverage change. Through the years, the SAS Plus product has suffered a number of reductions within the service, and now the airport expertise is extra just like that of the SAS GO ticket.
For Eurobonus loyalty members who’ve the state of gold, diamonds or pandion (or equal state with an related Star Alliance airline), entry to the room will stay obtainable, no matter the kind of ticket bought.
For individuals who can nonetheless entry the lecture rooms, the quieter environment may very well be seen as a profit, particularly throughout peak intervals by which the seats have an excellent demand, significantly for passengers touring in teams. Nevertheless, this adjustment highlights much more the lowering worth of the SAS Plus supply.
As journey experiences proceed to evolve, it stays to be seen if different airways will comply with their instance, which additional pushes the tendency to scale back premium companies provides. This modification might have broader implications for frequent vacationers who worth entry to premium companies, corresponding to entry to the lounge, as a part of their expertise within the normal journey.
