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Thank you. Makes sense.

Thanks for the extra information. It will still work for us as we will be leaving from Anchorage, AK, along with "no Friday".

I read some where in this thread where one of the Alaska Coupon Books offered 25% off airfare in 2023. I'm waiting for the booklet to be available come November 1 to see if it is also available for 2024. I might also look into the Alaska Airlines credit card. It sounds like a good deal. Thanks! ps. We also booked a "crabbing/boat trip"- Ketchikan- but from everything I'm reading regarding snow crabs now missing due to warmer waters; as well as no crab fishing for Alaska in 2022 or 2023 - so who knows for 2024 - I might have to rethink paying top $$ for that trip. Sounds like we wouldn't be catching anything. 🙂

Have you decided on an airline yet? Wondering where you would be flying from? We're coming from Florida so I'm still researching.

Thanks! We're following. Great thread!

Wondering if you (and others) are going to continue with this thread? We're going in August, 2024, but found this thread very informative!

The point of my post was to help others avoid a problem. Let's keep it simple. ALL passengers entering Oslo with a non-EU passport, are potentially going to face a 2 to 3 hour long line, standing with no place to sit, and no where else to go except through the passport control. For those that the details are so important, here are a few. I experimented with an airline I didn't know. I purchased a premium large seat on Norse Air to go to Copenhagen, including lots of baggage allowance, lots of food, movies, etc. I was to arrive 2 days before the cruise departure from Copenhagen. I had spent a lot of time in Copenhagen in the past, so I was arriving early to revist a few of my favorite places. In the past I had had no problems on short flights with Norwegian Air, so I was comfortable with the connection. It does not matter how much you paid for your ticket. - You will still wait! It does not matter which airport outside the EU you came from. It does not matter which airport you are connecting to. I rarely post comments like this. The purpose of this is to make people aware of a potential problem if they transit via Oslo. When I realized the length of the line I thought that a serious problem might have occured as the line snaked back and forth through different corridors, and curiosity led me to inquire of the personnel. It seemed that there might have been something going on, like a strike, power failure etc. More planes landed after mine and many of the people seemed bewildered by the line they were told to get in. But the casual replies that "No, this is the busy time of day, it's like this most days" really upset me, and I can assure you most of the people in that line were equally surprised. I felt compassion for many of the elderly as they moved a few feet at a time for hours. HOWEVER, none of this has anything to do with the preposterous laid back attitude of everyone at the airport that such a wait is just a normal occurance. If you can't fix the wait, at least provide benches and chairs along the way. This whole situation is far removed from the usual competence and ingenuity of the scandinavians.

CruiserBruce: Passport control

Sadly the replies here, really miss the point and the facts. Lines that are hours long to simply clear customs are an almost daily occurance according to the passport people I spoke to. There was no weather or any other extraordinary event. We did not have a cheap ticket and would never book anything through a cruise line. Further Norway made money from this, as Norwegian Air simply cancelled our ticket as we were no show, and we had to buy a new ticket at a really high $$ "last minute" fare to be able to get out of Norway. Many others were at the counter with the same predicament. As for my experience, I'm 81 and have lived in Spain, Germany, Brazil and other countries, and although most of my time has been in the US, I've traveled throughout the US, all of South America, and most of Europe. Have there been frustrating times at airports? Of course. From experience I usually know or will question the reason for the problem. In this case the answer provided by several employees was that this is very common at THIS airport, and happens many days each week. Really !! Have you seen lines where there was no place to sit, have you watched the video which couldn't even show the whole length of the line? The ONLY REASON FOR THIS LINE is the lack of sufficient personnel to handle the number of non EU passengers.

Sadly the replies here, really miss the point and the facts. Lines that are hours long to simply clear customs are an almost daily occurance according to the passport people I spoke to. There was no weather or any other extraordinary event. We did not have a cheap ticket and would never book anything through a cruise line. Further Norway made money from this, as Norwegian Air simply cancelled our ticket as we were no show, and we had to buy a new ticket at a really high $$ "last minute" fare to be able to get out of Norway. Many others were at the counter with the same predicament. As for my experience, I'm 81 and have lived in Spain, Germany, Brazil and other countries, and although most of my time has been in the US, I've traveled throughout the US, all of South America, and most of Europe. Have there been frustrating times at airports? Of course. From experience I usually know or will question the reason for the problem. In this case the answer provided by several employees was that this is very common at THIS airport, and happens many days each week. Really !! Have you seen lines where there was no place to sit, have you watched the video which couldn't even show the whole length of the line? The ONLY REASON FOR THIS 3 hour standing line is the lack of sufficient personnel to handle the number of non EU passengers coming through THIS airport.

WOW! What a disservice your post is to the 1,000's who wait in line! Why post YOUR ability to walk past ALL of us? You don't wait as you pass straight through with an EU passport. My post is to help the many travelers from around the world who are so abused by Norways total disregard for the problems caused EVERY DAY by these lines. ONE person in line for EU passport, well more than a 1,000 in "ALL other Passports" line

Just returned from NCL Dawn, Copenhagen to London. DO NOT - ever - fly through Oslo, Norway. It was the worst experience ever, causing many to miss their connecting flights, including ourselves. We have traveled all over the World but let me tell you; We will never fly through Oslo again. Here is our video to give you an idea. Simply horrible. If this saves just one person, it was worth posting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUaNZkNKF5I

Just returned from NCL Dawn, Copenhagen to London. DO NOT - ever - fly through Oslo, Norway. It was the worst experience ever, causing many to miss their connecting flights, including ourselves. We have traveled all over the World but let me tell you; We will never fly through Oslo again. Here is our video to give you an idea. Simply horrible. If this saves just one person, it was worth posting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUaNZkNKF5I