ohcanada

Just a reminder to all that the SAS Advent Calendar is starting up again on December 1. This was a very good deal last year for building up early mileage on a * carrier. You can sign up for e-mail reminders at http://www.campaign.scandinavian.net/christmas2004/us/.

Despite recent changes to the SAS FFP, UA and AP still award 100% EQM on discounted SAS tickets. ^

AndrewM

Thanks for the reminder ^

chexfan

I wonder IF and WHERE chexfan may land in early 2005!

jcooke

What types of deals are available with the calendar promo?

-JC

tcook052

IIRC, in past years there were some decent west coast USA originate fares to Europe/Scandinavia for around $249-299 range return. Wasn't there a different city featured every day, also? Or you could wait until Xmas Eve and hope seats still there and they opened up all cities for sale again. Travel was stricly low season, however.

Still, well worth waiting for. Thanks for the heads up, ohcanada. ^

Gnopps

Remember that many programs have reduced earnings on SAS flights, and the christmas calendar offers are likely to be in these lower classes. See this thread: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=365889

ohcanada

The calendar features a different destination city every day, but one day in the middle somewhere all the destinations are available. US departures are from SAS gateways only, which are EWR, ORD and (I think) SEA. US destinations are all in Europe, with some eastern European cities included. Last year West Coast departures are in the high $200s, with EWR and ORD departures around $229. No idea what price will be this year - may be affected by US$ exchange. Departure dates run until the end of March AFAIK.

Mrs OhCanada and I went to Milan on this deal earlier this year, and except for missing our flight in EWR on the outbound and being snowed in at EWR on the return we had a great time. This year we're travelling through ORD!

The interesting thing is that SAS offers the same type of deal from the other countries it serves, at approximately comparable prices. Some deals from Scandanavian countries go to Asia, for example. One idea I had was trying to combine a SAS US-Europe trip with a SAS Europe to Asia one for one big MR. Has anyone tried this?

ws8n

Anyone has the link for SAS europe to Asia Christmas offers?

I wonder if other airlines might join in the fray.

tracon

The date all departures came available is Dec. 24. SEA is a gateway city as well for this program.

tenmoc

Last year they opened all destinations on the 24th and all destinations revealed so far on the 100th anni of flight (17th maybe? dont remember the date)

ohcanada

You have to look at the links for the other SAS countries.

http://www.campaign.scandinavian.net/christmas2004/gb/
http://www.campaign.scandinavian.net/christmas2004/be/
http://www.campaign.scandinavian.net/christmas2004/ch/
http://www.campaign.scandinavian.net/christmas2004/cz/
http://www.campaign.scandinavian.net/christmas2004/en/
http://www.campaign.scandinavian.net/christmas2004/fi/
http://www.campaign.scandinavian.net/christmas2004/fs/
http://www.campaign.scandinavian.net/christmas2004/hu/
http://www.campaign.scandinavian.net/christmas2004/ie/
http://www.campaign.scandinavian.net/christmas2004/nl/
http://www.campaign.scandinavian.net/christmas2004/ru/

There are no details in any of the country pages yet but you can sign up for the notification if you want. I think it's just easier to sign in on the SAS site each day from a couple of countries and see what is offered. As I remember from last year, there was someone who posted the complete list from the year before, although it is unlikely that the destinations will be offered in the same order.

I doubt anyone else will offer a similar promotion, although traditionally January to March is the time when there are a lot of sales by just about all of the airlines.

Sweet Willie

Thanks for the reminder, but can someone clarify if it is ALL published discounted SAS tickets will earn 100% EQM?

tcook052

Here's the AC Aeroplan links:

https://www.aeroplan.com/en/collect/...n_airlines.jsp

https://www.aeroplan.com/en/collect/...atus_miles.jsp

And as far as I can determine, SK still earns full AP EQM, for now. AC recently changed some of it's partner earning ratios, but could only find notices about OS, LH & JK.