Originally Posted by
nacho
I'm based in Sweden and maybe that's the reason.
Do you have to use that AWD in order to get the point? Last time I looked for my rental the AWD code was a lot more expensive (I think it's about $100 difference).
I had trouble getting my SAS 3k bonus points with Avis - I think the reason was that I didn't use their AWD.
I tried to use Avis.com to get cash back, but somehow they claim that I used a invalid coupon
(it was an free upgrade coupon supplied by ebates and fortunately ebates still paid me the $ back).
Which AWD you need to use may depend on the airline.
It used to be that BA said you had to not only use a BA AWD to get BA miles, but had to use a different BA AWD depending on your elite status level (if any) at BA!
That was later relaxed
somewhat, but even when it was, there was still a restriction that you couldn't use "corporate" AWDs if you wanted to earn BA miles.
The US airlines don't care if you use another airline's AWD, but again they may restrict some other types of AWD. IMHO, it's dangerous to use a "random" AWD if you don't know who it's from and don't know whether it works with your particular airline.
I don't participate in SAS (I use UA for *A) so I have no idea what requirements, if any, they specfically may have.
(And I don't do any cashback website stuff myself, so I can't help you with that issue.)
Anyway, back to Carlson, their AWD always gave me good rates, so I didn't try using anything else, so I don't have experience with whether Carlson needs something else. Did you look through the main thread on this promo over in the Carlson forum?
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/club-...ct-2012-a.html