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AwardHack Pro for AwardFares Members
We’re continuing our partnership with AwardHack and extending our exclusive member offer through 31 December 2026. AwardHack is a toolkit built for exactly the kind of traveler who uses AwardFares.
AAdvantage
American Airlines Launches Summer 2026 Award Sale
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.
Trip Report
American Airlines 777-300ER Flagship First Review (2026): Buenos Aires to New York
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.
Announcements
A Redesigned Flight List: Clearer Results and Pricing Across Programs
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.
EuroBonus
Aerolíneas Argentinas and Garuda Indonesia: New SAS Codeshares, and How to Book Them with EuroBonus Points
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.
EuroBonus
SAS EuroBonus Award Release Window: Brief Move to 361 Days, Now Back to ~330
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.
Guide
Phantom Availability: Why Award Seats Vanish and How to Avoid It
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.
EuroBonus
SAS EuroBonus Executive Business Card: Full Guide (2026)
The SAS EuroBonus Business Executive Card rollout is underway: the first boarding groups are onboarding, and physical cards have started shipping. SAS now advertises a public welcome offer of 20,000 EuroBonus Bonus Points.
Trip Report
KLM 777-300ER Business Class Review (2026): Amsterdam to Buenos Aires
I always love flying with KLM; after many years, it remains one of my favorite airlines: the service, the friendliness of the staff, the soft and hard product, plus the Delft Houses. For me, it’s the complete package. I’m often told it’s hard to compete with Asian or Middle Eastern airlines when it comes to service. That’s definitely true on certain routes, but when considering European airlines and destinations that not many carriers serve (like deep South America), KLM is hard to beat. I was truly looking forward to this flight. The last time I flew KLM was on a short fifth-freedom flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago, sadly too short.
Trip Report
I Spent 22,500 EuroBonus Points on Aerolíneas Argentinas: Buenos Aires to Madrid
On my last visit to Sweden I found an interesting combination with my EuroBonus points: inbound with Aerolíneas Argentinas + SAS (via Madrid) in Economy Class, and the return with KLM in Business Class via Amsterdam. Ever since I completed my SAS EuroBonus Millionaire challenge and got my 1 million points, it has been increasingly hard to find good awards. Since I usually travel from South America to Europe or the United States, there are not very many airlines one can pick other than AF/KL, AR, and Delta. In addition, I usually travel with companions, which makes it harder when finding multiple seats.
MileagePlus
United May 2026: Houston-Caracas Returns, Peacock, Europe Routes
United Airlines announced a handful of routes and products in May 2026 that round out the airline’s summer push. The biggest news for travelers in the Americas is the return of nonstop Houston-Caracas service in August, after nearly nine years of suspension. On the product side, a dedicated Peacock channel joins the inflight entertainment lineup across 800+ aircraft. And the European summer routes United announced last October (Split, Bari, Glasgow, Santiago de Compostela) all started flying within the past three weeks.
MileagePlus
United Adds Chicago-Tokyo and SFO-Sapporo Routes for 2026
United Airlines just dropped two new Japan routes for winter 2026. Daily year-round service between Chicago O’Hare and Tokyo-Narita starts October 24, 2026, on a Boeing 787-8. Starting December 11, United will fly San Francisco to Sapporo (CTS) three times a week through March on a Boeing 787-9, the first nonstop between the continental US and Sapporo by any airline.
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