16 September 2024

As announced, SAS is now fully integrated into SkyTeam, but some particularities are worth noting around its airline partner network.

First, the airline has kept one Star member in its EuroBonus program, Singapore Airlines. All other partners have left.

Within SkyTeam, not yet all members are represented. ITA and MEA are currently still missing, while Czech Airlines will obviously not join anymore at all as it will go out of business next month. It can though be expected that the first two will start a partnership on their turn in the near future. The focus of the SAS management was simply to ensure to get the more important partners on board on time.

But a bit surprising (and actually unheard of in any alliance) is the decision by SAS to apply a specific award pricing on three partners: Redemptions on Air Europa, China Airlines and Vietnam Airlines are still based on the new standard award table – but a surcharge of 100% applies to them.

For the time being, the standard SkyTeam elite benefits don’t yet apply to three other partners, Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeroméxico and MEA.