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SAS EuroBonus and Scandic Friends will allow status matching from 2025

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Here is some interesting news for anyone who currently has SAS EuroBonus airline status following the British Airways status match that SAS ran recently.

SAS and Scandic Hotels have signed a partnership to offer shared benefits across their combined 11 million programme members.

This will launch in the first quarter of 2025.

SAS EuroBonus and Scandic Hotels will allow status matching from 2025

Details are thin at the moment

However, we do know that – in the first phase of activity – you will be able to match your SAS EuroBonus status to Scandic Hotels, and match your Scandic Friends status to SAS.

There will also be a ‘streamlined’ process for converting points between the two companies.

There are a couple of potential opportunities here for HfP readers:

  • anyone who matched their British Airways status to SAS will now get high level status in Scandic Friends – even if you never stay at a Scandic property, you may be able to use that status to get a match with a chain you do use
  • if you could get yourself elite status in Scandic Friends, either through stays or via a match from another hotel programme (I don’t know if Scandic Friends does matches) then you would be able to use this to get SAS EuroBonus status – which, due to their new SkyTeam membership, would get you elite benefits with Virgin Atlantic, Air France and KLM amongst others.

We don’t know any more at this point. We are told that “Additional enhancements and benefits will be rolled out later in the year [2025]” following the initial status matching period.

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Comments (4)

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  • TomB says:
    19 Oct19 October 08:15

    I took advantage of this but still not sure what I have to do to retain the status. I can see 90k points needed but I’m sure Rob mentioned you just need to take 2 flights to keep it. It also says it lasts until September 2026 on the card which seems a long time. For SAS it has worked though as I’ll be booking all my nordics work flights with them (unless it turns out they are worse than BA)

  • James says:
    19 Oct19 October 12:18

    Scandic hotels don’t offer status match at their hotels and have recently revamped the Friends scheme to add new tiers and devalue the benefits previously offered.

  • Bernard says:
    19 Oct19 October 13:54

    To retain SAS gold you normally need 45,000 status points/45 flights. Diamond requires 90,000/90 flights. Pandion is invitation only.
    Status points are different from bonus points levels.
    SAS reward savers for business class long haul redemptions are 100,000 but very tough to find and usually require a scandi starting point.

  • ianM says:
    20 Oct20 October 12:40

    Yes there was an offer to retain the gold status match with maybe 6 sectors before end of March? Not sure I remember that correctly. SAS schedule from Scotland a bit sketchy though.
    Their lounge at ARN is okay but nothing special. Amex lounge much better.

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