Did a bit of studying today about the program, and I know most folks here probably already know the EuroBonus system by heart, but I think it is worth highlighting some pro and con for people who have never touched SK before like me.
CON
- miles expire after 4 years
- all Skyteam partner bookings incur a 50EUR fee, which renders most short haul partner flights horrible value
- Skyteam flights one way redemption is 60%, not half, of roundtrip cost
- Hawaii and mainland US are considered separate regions
- VN UX CI all require double points, rendering them useless as redemption partners
PRO
- no YQ
- Sweetspots
- Short haul SAS within Europe and Scandinavia are great value
- SAS long haul for 50k to most places is fantastic value
- DL domestic US excluding Hawaii is 30k each way in J, if there is availability of course
- India, Russia, Korea, China, Maldives, Japan, etc are all considered same region. So for 15k/30k for Y/J o/w, you can do
- SVO-PVG-MLE, CTS-PVG-KMG when MU can be redeemed in the future
- TPE-ICN-ALA, PEK-ICN-DEL
- ICN-XMN-MLE
- SEZ, LOS, CMN, IKA are all considered same region, 15k/30k for Y/J o/w
- Greenland is considered Europe, so it is 15k in Y for CPH-SFJ for example if SK ever resumes it
- Asia-Oceania is relatively cheap, for 78k you can do J one way SVO-PVG-AKL when you can do MU, ALA-ICN-SYD on KE, etc
- 78k J EU to North America is not bad without YQ since it does not split between MEX/JFK/LAX etc
Availability on long haul (only talking about J)
- SK metal
- there is hard black out dates for "saver", which seems to be Dec 15-Jan 15, Jun 15-Sep 15
- east coast US TATL on SK metal is relatively abundant, 50k one way is good deal, not absolutely jaw-dropping
- west coast US TATL on SK metal is much rarer, but still can be found with a large degree of flexibility
- Asia routes saver are non-existent
- Partner metal
- TATL is relatively poor, because DL is an abusive partner, AFKL offers way fewer saver seats to partners than their own program, and VS are rare
- TPAC is only on KE because MU cannot be redeemed, and CI costs double, so very few as well. There are a few MF options but they fly to very few locations
- EU-Asia consistently see KL releasing seats, so quite reliable, but remember saver for EU-BKK/SIN/DPS cost 110k+
CONCLUSION
I would value it at around 1cpm, so 1 million miles is 10k USD, maybe a bit less. This is largely due to requiring lots of flexibility for long haul/partner long haul for saver, while short haul requires 50EUR fee, making any flight that has LCC competition non-starter for redemptions. This may be more valuable to folks who are in east coast because NYC has the best availability. Best comparison I can compare it to is maybe the current version of QR: decent on own metal, ok-ish on partner long haul, unacceptable for partner short haul.