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Back on April 1st SAS EuroBonus announced they will now award 1,000 points for any eligible Avis
rental that is booked through their page on the Avis World website at avisworld.com/eurobonus
Why is this significant? 1,000 points for a rental may not seem a lot
but when you compare it to many other programs it actually is especially
when looking a rentals of 1 day or less. Aeroplan only offers 500 miles
per Avis rental excluding any bonuses and many U.S. programs offer 50 to 75
miles per day excluding bonuses. Since programs award varying levels of
points per day this is why the SAS EuroBonus tactic should really
only be looked at for shorter term rentals.
With many of the programs that offer 500 miles per rental it would take you 50
Avis rentals to get enough miles for an economy class award
ticket within North America. With SAS EuroBonus their old earn rate
prior to April 1st was also 500 points but now that it has been doubled
you can get enough SAS EuroBonus points for a round trip economy class
award ticket in North America with only 25 Avis rentals. This is why
you should consider moving your 1 day or less Avis rentals to SAS
EuroBonus. Of course bonus offers may change this value proposition but
most of the time those bonus offers require rentals of multiple days.
Although we haven’t wrote about it before here on FFB, you
should do the same for one day or less Hertz or Alamo rentals by
crediting those to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club as you’ll earn 1,000
miles for any eligible rental with those two companies. This is also
valuable as Flying Club miles can be converted to Hilton HHonors points
if you never for see redeeming miles via Flying Club for flights.
But what about consolidating all your points into you main account you
may ask? While I still tend to preach about focusing on one program a
person should also look at how quickly you can be rewarded. If you are
planning 25 Avis rentals this year and know you’ll be 12,500 miles short
of an award with your primary program than you should probably credit those to
that program but if you have no award flights planned or just wing it when
it comes to that department you are better off crediting to EuroBonus
and getting a free round trip award flight.
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| EuroBonus’ Star Alliance Award chart – 25,000 Miles for North America round trip |
Find the complete details on booking Avis cars with SAS EuroBonus at avisworld.com/eurobonus
