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Rove just added SAS EuroBonus as a 1:1 transfer partner along with live award availability searches built into the platform. They’re also running a 20% transfer bonus through April 8.
Delta and SAS are offering rare sub-$2,000 roundtrip business class fares to Europe, with prices in the $1,600s to cities like Rome, Milan, Vienna and Copenhagen. The sale is wide open from January through May 2026, includes Saturday-night stays, and is bookable through December 2 unless pulled earlier.
When working on your own strategy for this challenge, don’t forget fifth freedom routes. You don’t have to fly Virgin Atlantic across the Atlantic, for instance. You can do that with another SkyTeam airline, and hop on a short Virgin flight in the Caribbean like Barbados to St. Vincent or Granada. Other carriers have similar unexpected short (and usually inexpensive) options too – such as KLM’s Singapore – Bali and Kuala Lumpur – Jakarta.
A couple of months ago I wrote about SAS offering a status match. Some readers complained that it wasn’t broadly relevant enough, since it states it’s available only to European residents. But it’s relevant because they appear to be status matching anyone with enough of a pulse to fill out a form. Vital signs sufficient to upload attachments not required.
Scandinavian, or SAS, the Swedish-Danish-Norwegian Star Alliance carrier headquartered in Stockholm, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. following the start of a pilots strike that the carrier expects will cancel half of its flights.
This is a good reminder that there are people who are thrilled that international travel has grinded to a halt, and that flying is severely depressed amidst the global pandemic.
This morning I learned the shocking story of a United Airlines unaccompanied minor being put on a flight to Germany instead of Sweden.
Though an adult put him on the plane — a flight he didn’t have a boarding pass for — he realized he was heading to Germany and let his mother know. That began an odyssey during which she desperately tried to get United’s help to stop the plane from taking off with her son on it. She tweeted, she called, she sat on hold for over an hour and tried to get supervisors to do something. But how did this even happen?
One big mistake I make in my own life is to simultaneously know how bad mainstream media stories are covering areas that I know, like that speaking the words ‘revenue management’ is a secret code that forces airlines to upgrade you. Yet I assume reporting outside my areas of expertise is accurate.
Back in 2008 I was earning 9999 Delta miles per one day car rental. That same year Mrp alert who shares a birthday with me earned 100,000 miles in 45 days renting cars.
Those days are long gone but Avis will currently give you 10,000 SAS EuroBonus miles for a 3 day rental.
SAS is giving out free luggage tags to all SAS Eurobonus members. Just email eurobonus@sas.no with the subject BagTag and include your EuroBonus number in the email.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
