CehofskiMD

Dear all,

now that SK are introducing 100% earnings I wondered if anyone has detailed information on how miles will be credited to other Star Alliance carriers? Will it still be 25% on the lowest economy classes?

Thanks in advance for your help.

kauppias

I doubt it will change in regards to other programs... This way there would be a huge incentive to credit to eurobonus

Tango Alpha

And to fly on SK metal ....

kauppias

Yes thats what I meant crediting sk flights to EB

Svenfly

Hi all,

i see no 100 % for SAS Flights on EuroBonus in Discounted Economy Flights in SAS Economy the only granted 25 % also then other Star Programm.

But the are better Silver and Gold treshold to become Silver and Gold then M&M.

Greetz, Svenfly

seat56f

Not sure I deciphered your message right, but the OP probably referred to the changes to Eurobonus effective May 4th, when all SK flights credited to EB will earn 100%.

Svenfly

Hi seat56f,

oh when thats right are great news for SAS EuroBonus.

But looks like SAS wants change the alliance or??

Greetz, sven.

NicoEBG

SAS wants to change what alliance?

CehofskiMD

Well, all I wanted to know was how miles on SK will be credited to other carriers after introducing 100% earnings.

I started the thread as I do many domestic flights on SK within Denmark. However, I always credit the miles to my UA Mileage Plus account as most of my long-haul flights are on UA.

I often do CPH-LHR as the first leg on which I always earn 152 miles i.e. 25% of the actual distance. I guess I am not the only one being tired of the 25% earnings

SK2751

The common opinion on this forum is that earnings on the other *A programmes are unlikely to change. But if you fly a lot of these SK segements, it may pay off to start crediting them to EB. Starting only May 4th, though.

HenrikP

An educated guess:
If other Star Alliance FFPs where to change the earning on SK-flights I would think they would have done it by now.

They might change the earning chart later to 100 %. But I really doubt it. I believe it is up to the other FFP if they want to change the earning chart for SK.

jfidler

I think it's sort of reciprocal.

For example, here is the earning for SK flights when crediting to UA:
http://www.united.com/CMS/en-US/mark...spx?ItemId=317

Notice 25% for low economy.

Now let's look at earnings on UA for other *A carriers:
http://www.united.com/CMS/en-US/mark...ePartners.aspx

Only KF, SK, and LO flights will get you only 25% UA miles. All other *A carriers and you earn 50-100% for the lowest economy.

Now why would UA pick just SK/KF (and LO) for the 25% earnings? My guess is that is because SK decided that EB members earn only 25% on low UA flights, so UA reciprocated and devalued low SK flights.

The reason I think this was initiated by SK is that UA (and other *A carriers) don't generally seem to have this 25% rule, even between each other (like UA and LH for example).

So, UA has no incentive to give their members 100% on low SK flights, since SK gives its members only 25% on low UA flights.

This is all just a guess of course. I started shifting a lot of my earnings to OZ from SK, because of poor earnings on SK with domestics flights in the US. I do examine the earnings possibilities closely when booking for exactly this reason, and decide which FF program to credit it to based on it.