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Elgiganten and SAS EuroBonus points promotion

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Great news if you live in Sweden and eager to freshen up your apartment or gadgets collection!

From March 20 until April 17 you can earn up to 20 000 EuroBonus extra points for each microwave, dishwasher, razor or vacuum cleaner purchased on Elgiganten website.

Elgiganten and SAS EuroBonus

Today starts a very, very very generous promotion between SAS and one of the leading consumer electronics store in Sweden, Elgiganten.se.

Each purchase starting from 20th of March and until 17th of April could reward you with up to 20 000 EuroBonus extra points. Promotional goods will be changed each week, until the promotion ends. The amount of reward points is displayed directly on Elgiganten promotion page and there are some very good deals.

If there was ever a moment to get a new refrigerator, it is during this promotion. New Samsung, LG or Electrolux priced around 800 € will come with 10 000 EuroBonus extra points. Add about 300 € for the item, and it might end up in total of 20 000 points as bonus.

Surely, there are some much cheaper and more affordable offers. Consider getting fit tracker for approx. 80 € with additional 3000 points, or Garmin Vivomove priced at 180 € and rewarding 5000 EuroBonus extra points.

Note that points will take some time to be deposited to your EuroBonus account, as Elgiganten has 30 days return policy, points will come 1-2 weeks after it closes.

Also, do not forget to pay with PayPal connected to your EuroBonus American Express or EuroBonus MasterCard cards so you get additional points.

 

SAS Development Blog – sad excuse for new website?

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Ever since SAS has released their new web page design for Denmark, Sweden and Norway, it has received amazing amount of hate. And I say hate, because there is literally no other word that could explain what SAS customers experience trying to use updated version.

FlyerTalk has 70 unhappy comments users, but that is in English. Swedish forum BusinessClass.se soon will reach 500 comments, and oh boy, they are definitely not positive.

What happened briefly:

  1. SAS decided to update their webpage to something more modern, useful, up to date and iPhone looking
  2. SAS hired some Indian development company to do it
  3. SAS tested beta version for almost a year in 2016
  4. SAS released new version to Denmark, Sweden and Norway early 2017
  5. All SAS customers started to get endless headaches, as new web page is just not making sense and does not work in 80% of the cases
  6. SAS started to roll the new version back, out, back and out again between 3 major markets
  7. SAS customers anger and hate turned simply into laughter and ignorance of new website (you still can use www.flysas.com with old version)

Rumours are saying that SAS management was completely ignorant about the quality of new site and was ignoring endless complaints from everyone who tried to book a flight or access EuroBonus account with new design.

Instead of firing whoever was in charge of this project, claiming money back from Indian developers and rolling back old version, which did not look fancy, but was at least working, SAS decided to open a Development Blog…

SAS Development Blog – where we share our releases and milestones

What the hell have you been doing for the past years, while website was in beta?

Who took a decision to release something barely working towards end users?

My main question, why the hell I shall care as SAS customer what are the milestones and releases? I simply want a web page that works! Where I can book a ticket, see my status, make a change, book a reward, find my reservation and select a seat/meal.

I don’t give a rat’s ass about your milestones, and to be honest, your milestones should have been all met right before you released that idiotic design and functionality, not 3 months after.

Here comes the worst part:

In the past six months, we’ve collected feedback from our Beta site, conducted user testing and made data-driven changes accordingly. Right now, we are in a state where we can call the site to be a minimum viable product (“MVP”).

In agile software development an MVP has just enough core features to deploy it. In other words, it has very basic functionality. Releasing an MVP accelerates learning and maximizes time spent on relevant development with the right focus. It differs from the conventional strategy of investing time and money to implement whole product before verifying whether customers want the product or not.

This quite popular image below represents the agile way a limited yet functional product is evolving. Thank you Henrik Kniberg for allowing us to share this great illustration with our travelers.

And here is a picture they attached in the blog

Well, let me tell you something. Elon Musk has not released skate on batteries, bike with self navigation and eco-friendly scooter. He released Tesla car, which he aimed for from the very beginning.

It is a pathetic excuse to justify extremely poor development of new SAS web site.

Leave your comments what you think about new page and development blog 🙂

YQ fuel surcharges in Brazil now allowed

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Caralho gente…

Starting from today, Brazilian government has allowed all airlines to start charging hideous YQ surcharges, better knows as fuel surcharges. Every traveller knows those pesky charges imposed by airlines, which makes any sort of cheap airfare skyrocket in price. Even more, YQ surcharges are usually accounted for most of the price of award tickets with any airline.

New regulation is available in Brazilian Portuguese, in case you are fluent in it.

As it is a fresh new regulation, so far only TAP Portugal Airlines introduced fuel surcharges on their flights from Brazil (charges flying TO Brazil were always there). YQ charge for flying Economy from Sao Paulo to Lisbon is approx. 90 EUR and Business class is almost 200 EUR.

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TAP Portugal YQ fuel surcharges

All other major airlines flying from Brazil, including Lufthansa, United, Turkish, British Airways, LATAM, Air France, KLM and etc etc etc, have not introduced YQ fuel surcharges yet, but it does feel like it’s only a question of time.

Airline prices in Latin America have been always ridiculous, and now we can expect one more bump up, as soon as other airlines catch up with speedy TAP Portugal.

New SAS destinations for 2017 within Europe

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SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) just announced its new regular and summer 2017 routes from Scandinavia

Denmark:

All year routes
Copenhagen-Faroe Islands: First departure 26 March 2017, daily
Copenhagen-Riga: First departure 26 March 2017, twice daily except Saturdays
Aalborg-Oslo: First departure 26 March, daily except Mondays and Saturdays

Summer high season routes
Copenhagen-Malta: from 25 June – 13 August, departures Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
Copenhagen-Olbia: From 24 June – 5 August, departures Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Aarhus-Malaga: From 2 July – 6 August, departures Sundays.

Sweden:

All year routes
Stockholm-Munich: First departure 26 March 2017, daily except Fridays
Stockholm-Krakow: First departure 26 March 2017, departures Thursdays and Sundays

Summer routes
Stockholm-Lisbon: 25 June–06 August 2017, departures Thursdays and Sundays
Stockholm-Shannon: 1 August –7 October  2017, departures Tuesdays and Saturdays
Stockholm-Pristina: 1 August –26 August 2017, eight roundtrips on selective dates

Norway:

All year routes
Oslo-Aalborg: first departure 26 March 2017, daily except Mondays and Saturdays
Bergen-Gdansk, first departure 29 March, departures Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays

Summer routes
Oslo-Pristina: 4 August – 2 September, 10 roundtrips on selective dates
Stavanger-Nice: 24 June 17 – 5 Aug 17, departures Saturdays
Kristiansand-Malaga: 05 july – 9 August, departures Wednesday

It’s always great when airlines is expanding route network.

The only downside is that some of the regular and summer destinations will not have any lounge that is accessible with EuroBonus membership.

EuroBonus 3.0, what to expect from SAS?

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One of SAS’s big boys, Eivind Roald (yeap, that typical scandinavian from the photo, who also happened to be Executive Vice President Commercial. Member of SAS Group Management) briefly mentioned during one of interviews about SAS project “Loyalty 3.0”, which gained wide popularity among EuroBonus frequent flyers as SAS EuroBonus 3.0 program.

There was no official release date announced, but was expected to kick in somewhere around end of 2016, or beginning of 2017. It’s almost mid March of 2017 and there has not been any news related to EuroBonus 3.0.

What are the possible changes to SAS EuroBonus 3.0?

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SAS Now or Never – USA and Europe – March 2, 2017

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Here is combined weekly SAS Scandinavian Airlines promotion for Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

Remember to book on corresponding website, as offers from one country might not show up on the regional settings for another.

SAS Travel Now or Never

March 2 2017

Destinations from Denmark, Copenhagen Kastrup airport CPH

Book at: SAS.dk

Destinations from Sweden, Arlanda airport ARN

Book at: SAS.se

Destinations from Norway, Oslo airport OSL

Book at: SAS.no

CHICAGO 2499,-
WASHINGTON 2999,-
SAN FRANCISCO 3299,-

CHICAGO 2499 SEK
WASHINGTON 2999 SEK
SAN FRANCISCO 3299 SEK

Oslo–one way from
PARIS 349,-
TALLINN 399,-
AMSTERDAM 349,-
LONDON 299,-

Oslo– return flight from
CHICAGO 2499,-
WASHINGTON 2999,-
SAN FRANCISCO 3299,-

Stavanger– one way from
LONDON 299,-

SAS EuroBonus Amex Classic or MasterCard credit card, which one is better?

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SAS Scandinavian Airlines is currently offering two similar EuroBonus co-branded credit card: SAS EuroBonus American Express Classic Credit Card and SAS EuroBonus World MasterCard. Both cards cost the same and have a flat rate of extra points accumulation: 10 points per 1 euro spent.

Here is a brief comparison of both SAS EuroBonus American Express Classic Credit Card and SAS EuroBonus World MasterCard that would help you to choose the best option.

SAS EuroBonus MasterCard – more points on daily shopping

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SAS Scandinavian Airlines is offering two options for co-branded credit cards. First option is SAS EuroBonus American Express, which is a great offer for travel lovers and points freaks.

But SAS EuroBonus Amex has two obvious cons, it is expensive and not accepted in most of the places.

As a great backup option, SAS is offering SAS EuroBonus Mastercard, which is also connected to EuroBonus account and would accumulate additional EuroBonus extra points on each purchase in the places where MasterCard is accepted.

When you sign up, SAS would reward you with 4000 introduction extra points if you make a purchase within 30 days after receiving credit card.

This SAS EuroBonus credit card has a flat earning rate of 10 points per 100 SEK spent, or simply 1 EuroBonus point for each euro spent. It is not as good as American Express Elite and Premium cards, but it costs only 20 euros first year, and 40 euros service charge next years.

You can apply for the card at SAS EuroBonus World MasterCard homepage .

Remember, that you need Swedish Social Security number in order to apply.

Start paying with your EuroBonus MasterCard as soon as you get it and in all places where American Express is not accepted in Scandinavia and worldwide.