1 million miles have just been posted to my SAS EuroBouns account, a fitting conclusion to my round-the-world journey to fly 15 SkyTeam carriers.
Mission Accomplished: 1 Million Miles Posted To My SAS Account
Earlier today, I received an email from SAS congratulating me once again and noting that a million points had just been deposited in my account:
Congratulations and well done, you’re a EuroBonus millionaire! We hope that the adventure of traveling with 15 SkyTeam airlines has given you memories for life, and perhaps some new friends along the way?
1 000 000 Bonus points have now been added to your account. That’s a lot of zeros! Get some inspiration on how to spend them below.
See you on board, millionaire.
What a classy email and I appreciate how efficiently SAS processed through this promotion and credited the miles.
Sure enough, the points have posted for both me and my son Augustine, who took the challenge with me. An eight-year-old millionaire, not bad!
(I earned more miles than Augustine on our journey because I have SAS Gold status, which means I get a Gold bonus on every flight.)
I’m going to try to get a jump on summer bookings before inflation drives pricing through the roof. Unfortunately, I’ve been unable to search for anything thus far in my Safari browser today, with SAS apparently thinking I’m a bot…
(and I’m not connected to a VPN)
Same in Chrome…
So is this how SAS is going to keep us from using our miles?!
This trip was a ton of fun and a great time to bond with my son, Augustine. I’m compiling my thoughts in one more post on the unique bond that travel creates, but in the meantime, if you missed my “real-time” trip report from the journey, you can catch up here.
Congratulations to you and Augustine!!!
Congrats!
I had the same issue when searching for flights. Their Web site does not work. The mobile app does work, though.
Props to you. Interesting that Augustine earned less.
On a complete non sequitur there’s what I believe is a Boarding Area website whose content really seem generated solely by AI: Sky Skylar. The posts are numerous but so vapid and blase that it’s tough to believe a human could write them. Does BA offer any guarantees regarding AI blogs, whether they would be limited in any fashion or just allowed to become the norm?
If you search on the boarding area website they don’t hide the info or click on the author’s “name”.
“Sky Skylar is a fictional travel blogger created by BoardingArea as the first experimental content creator for frequent flyers. Inspired by Max Headroom, a journalist himself, Sky’s blogging is influenced by the millions of frequent flyer miles he did not fly but absorbed in reading all the blog posts that have ever been written about travel. Sky’s origin is rooted in a near-future dominated by AI and the concept of mixed and augmented reality travel. Sky’s name was inspired by the Sky King character in an old western TV series, a comically ironic name for a fictional travel blogger who has never flown but knows and understands everything about travel.”
I genuinely appreciate the information. That doesn’t make the content any more palatable and honestly I’m concerned about quality writers like Matthew getting drowned out by a tidal wave of third rate AI stuff like this which would deprive all of us of good writing.
Well done! I got mine last night, it was a wise choice to go for all 17 as I am still missing VN and AR.
Rather content with the decent taxes+charges on redemptions, less happy with the lack of SK availability to the Far East and the fact they seem to be unable to get as many business awards in O-class on AF as the Virgin Flying Club.
Technical(?) issue: their online award booking engine seems to be fine mixing awards between certain partners (e.g. AF and KW) but not others (e.g. SV and GA). I will probably end up having to call them a bit more often than I thought I would.
Both me and my wife are ”EB millionaires” (though not through this challenge) and long-time EB Diamond members. Unfortunately, award redemptions are REALLY difficult since they switched alliances. Very, very hard to find r/t in biz between Eu, Us and Asia.
There’s a fair bit of availability with Saudia, I was pretty impressed with them when I did TUN-JED-RUH-BKK in business during the challenge, so I am happy to fly with them to the Far East if AF/SK don’t have availability. Africa isn’t too bad between KQ and AF, so the only issue is flying West. SK do have some availability to the States, but I far prefer Latin America and that can be a struggle- UX is of no interest as sold at double miles, AFKL availability is patchy, Aerolíneas Argentinas still haven’t been integrated, and I haven’t seen any availability on AM other than for domestic flights.
Nice job and congrats. Try clearing cookies and/or using a different browser. This frequently happens with M&M and FB with me and this usually does the trick.
While there isn’t an explicit historical or etymological connection between Schlappig and St. Augustine, there’s an interesting thematic resonance if we think about the name symbolizing human frailty or weakness, which aligns with Augustine’s reflections on sin and grace. Augustine’s life, filled with struggle and eventual redemption, mirrors the process of healing that could be symbolized by the “limp” (schlapp). In this way, the two could be metaphorically linked, with Augustine’s transformation providing an archetype for healing and renewal that might resonate with the meaning of the surname Schlappig.
Ben is my dear friend, but we did not co-father Augustine. Aug’s last name is Klint! 😉
Sweetest spot:
North Africa (ALG, TUN, CMN) to SYD with Saudia and Garuda for 85.000 miles
Well done. Maybe a follow up post some time about how Augustine feels about the trip now its past, as although he was a real trooper it was harder on him than you, who are a road warrior. He may be 8 but I bet he has some interesting perspectives on it.
Congratulations! Good luck with the SAS booking. I just booked a couple of SAS flights for the summer, and each booking was a hassle. My particular problem was that the website would not process my payments. I would *click* for the payment page, and it never loaded the payment form to input credit card info. I was able to book one flight through Amex travel instead (not my favorite option). But in each case I had to call SAS directly to pay with my credit card over the phone for my chosen seats. Weird.
Welcome to the infamous SAS IT!
Mazal Tov Matt!
Wait… what?!
What is the meaning of mazal tov?
mazel tov in American English
(ˈmɑːzəlˌtɔv, ˌtɔf, ˌtouv) noun. an expression of congratulations and best wishes, used chiefly by Jews on an occasion of success or good fortune. Also: mazal tov.
Congrats. Where will the first redemption be to?
Hopefully, to Germany for the family, but it’s not looking good!
Congrats Matthew and Augustine. I’m just wondering how much you have both spent on the air-fares, taxes, services, hotels and food in total for this specific trip?
Bravo to you both!!
Maybe I have missed it, did you make a summary post with all Skyteam flights you & Augustine took to fulfill the challenge?