Summer is the busy season for EuroBonus, and the offers reflect it. A restaurant sweepstakes gives first-time card linkers a chance at 30,000 points, the Hertz 80th-anniversary draw offers a chance at 80,000 points, and SAS has added an insurance partner that pays a one-time points bonus on new policies. SAS also confirmed the largest aircraft order in its history, crossed 9 million EuroBonus members, and now includes a free travel eSIM on eligible bookings. All the details below.

American Airlines is bringing back its nonstop Chicago O’Hare (ORD) to Tokyo Narita (NRT) route on March 27, 2027. The flight will operate daily, year-round, on a Boeing 787-9 with 30 Flagship Business seats and 21 Premium Economy seats.

SAS has renamed its EuroBonus Conscious Traveler initiative to EuroBonus ChangeMakers, the program we covered at launch back in January 2024. It’s not just a coat of paint: alongside the new name, SAS also refreshed the list of actions members can take to earn their yearly status, and published a full breakdown of how the program works and why. Here’s everything that’s actually different, and everything that isn’t.

Malaysia Airlines has just launched a new status match campaign into its Enrich loyalty program. The offer is only for Air India Maharaja Club and Garuda Indonesia GarudaMiles elite members. If that’s you, this is one of the cheapest ways to get top-tier oneworld status we’ve seen: $349 for Enrich Platinum, which maps to oneworld Emerald.

We’re excited to announce our newest partnership with AwardHack, a toolkit built for exactly the kind of traveler who uses AwardFares.

American Airlines has launched a fresh AAdvantage award sale, and the transatlantic pricing is the part worth paying attention to. You can fly one-way to Europe from 21,000 miles, and book the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America from 9,000 miles one-way. Reservations have to be made by July 7, 2026, for travel between August 1 and September 30. That puts late-summer beaches and a shoulder-season Europe trip squarely in range.

American’s Flagship First is one of the last “true First Class” cabins you can still find on a US airline, and it only flies on the Boeing 777-300ERs in the fleet. With American now refreshing its long-haul cabins (the new Flagship Suites replace First Class altogether), I wanted to try it before it disappears forever, and Buenos Aires to New York is one of the few routes where you can still book it! With great availability usually using AAdvantage miles. The timing made it even more attractive: 2026 is American’s centennial, so the airline has introduced special “100” branded menus, amenity kits, and pajamas to mark its 100th anniversary.

This month we are excited to roll out a redesigned flight list. It is a core part of AwardFares and what you see after every award search, so we rebuilt it to be clearer to read and to bring you more functionality. Here’s what it does.

SAS announced two new codeshares with SkyTeam partners: Aerolíneas Argentinas and Garuda Indonesia. One brings Argentina and Patagonia closer. The other brings Bali and the rest of Indonesia.

For as long as we can remember, SAS opened its EuroBonus award space ~330 days before departure. From recent searches, we now see that pushed out to roughly 361 days (about a month earlier than the old limit). I confirmed it across a few routes and dates in June 2026.

You find the perfect award seat. Business class, the right date, bookable with the miles you already have. You fill in the passenger details, hit confirm, and the page shows an error. You search again, and the seat is gone. It was never really there.

Here’s a new solution to one of the questions we get every day: how to earn points for business expenses. Today, SAS made a bold move and announced the SAS Executive Card, its first own business-card program. The waitlist is open today in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark; the card itself launches fall 2026. Bankaktiebolaget Nordiska is the legal card issuer. It’s a Mastercard World Elite product aimed at Scandinavian SMEs, and on paper it sets the highest base earning rate in EuroBonus: 25 points per 100 SEK/NOK/DKK on all eligible spend.