SAS EuroBonus Mastercard Premium

Vi fandt heller intet hjem fra Atlanta, så vi har booket hjemtur fra Boston i stedet og tager så bare en flyver derop dagen før

 

As the discussion about the credit card costs are blooming here it would be great to get some advice:

in have a curve card and a sas premium. I travel fairly much with work, however lately less sas connections due to location. Following, I so far managed only to accumulate 17k status points with my year ending end November.

hence mcurrent thinking is to just take the bullet on 2-3% currency fee and pay all my hotel bills etc via SAS Premium in order to push myself back above the 45k status line for gold.

if I assume 20k of those status points come from CX, than my total cost for those would ~10k dkk (for 20k status I need to spent 320k dkk in order to get 80k basic points, which convert to 20k status points).

10k dkk looks expensive for gold status - however, as I also get 100k points (basic + status) which I can spent on 3 business class tickets, it should be overall very profitable?

any thoughts on my calculation?

 

You sound very confident in the fact that there will be business class bonus tickets available on routes that interest you. If that is the case, your calculation seems fine imo

 

My few comments:

• You can get points by flying with other airlines in Star Alliance. I do not see any thoughts on that fact
• 20,000 status points from Master Card: You will get them by paying 400,000 DKK in foreing currency (not 320K as you state). You get 20 extra points for each 100 you use). And the costs will be around 10.000 DKK (I agree in your calculation of costs)
• You do not have the value of your 80,000 ekstra points in your calculation. This is arround 8,000 DKK (if the value is 0.1 DKK per point). so the net costs are less.
• You cannot use status points for purchasing award tickets.
• I cannot figure out, how many points you will get on your "Fly premium" - and if you are able to get cheap award Business tickets.
• Who cover the extra costs? Is it your company or you? If the company pays all costs and you as private person get the benefit, the calculation is different from your calculation above.

 

I would be cautious chasing status unless very close to reaching it. It may be better to save the money and simply purchase the ticket in your preferred class of travel. Cash is king and allows you to make the decision without being dependent on availability of award flights. Just my two cents. Safe travels.

 

Det ser ud til at der pt. køre en kampange på SAS-kortet (50% ekstra point på forbrug i udenlandsk valuta?). Er der nogle der har detaljerne, jeg syntes ikke jeg kan finde noget online.

 

Da du meldte dig til dobbelt point kampagnen i slutningen af maj, meldte du dig også til denne kampagne. Såvidt jeg husker, løber den i juli og august.

Rettelse: Jeg huskede forkert. Den gælder kun i juli

 

Den gælder kun her i juli:

Pointfesten fortsætter hele juli, hvor du får 50 % flere point (30 Ekstrapoint/100 kr.) når du betaler i lokal valuta på udlandsrejsen.

 

Takker for rettelsen.

 

Did anyone receive info regarding below double points? DK user.

 

Nope

 

Ja, i en e-mail med tilbuddene, som kører nu.

 

When was that and from which email?

 

15 August.

 

Virkelig mærkeligt - for første gang nogensinde har jeg IKKE fået kampagnen. Det vil sige... jeg HAR fået mailen. Men afsnittet om dobbeltpoint er ikke med.

Jeg tænkte det nok var en fejl og bookede derfor et par billetter i sidste uge. Og ganske rigtigt, jeg HAR fået dobbeltpoint.

Så TAK til jer gode venner på IF for at gøre mig opmærksom på, hvad SAS ikke selv formåede

 

Jeg overså også afsnittet, da jeg læste mailen. Så blev gjort opmærksom fra anden side.

 

Endnu en kampagne man ikke er blevet inviteret til

 

Jamen du skal ikke inviteres. Der er ingen tilmelding. Alle får dobbelt point.

 

Åh troede man skulle inviteres.
Har slet ikke fået nogen info om kampagnen

 

I am planning to transfer points from my father in law to keep my flight premium status - however, I was surprised that in his profile I can’t see the option to “transfer points” - does the transferring partner need to be minimum silver status to enable the function? Anyone knows more?