Originally Posted by
intuition
The major SAS devalution is in poits redemotions. Not in nominal price but in availabilty. As their program has a massive influx of points from non-flying activites while the only valuable redemption is award flights in premium class, the demand outclasses the supply by a factor "big".
E.g. for CPH-HND there is currently 4 flights in the next 330 days with an awardseat. So the easy to get points that nominally has a value are practically worthless as you hardly can't redeem them.
That‘s why they added the best availability awards (i.e. cash tickets paid with points) into the award search already before corona. So there are plenty expensive awards available.
I noticed at new year‘s eve that I had to burn 70k on that very day… what a pain. These are the times I feel AY is not bad, even good.