You would need to start with 18,000 Citi ThankYou points and convert them to 36,000 Choice points and onward to 72,000 Radisson Americas points in order to have enough Radisson points to redeem for 10,000+ SAS miles (you’d end up with some leftover points that could stay with Choice/Radisson or be mostly converted to SAS depending on where you’d like to orphan miles. This is mostly useful for those looking to get to remote parts of Norway or Sweden since SAS serves some routes within those countries that can be outrageously expensive when booking with cash. SAS allows one-way redemption for 60% of the price of a round trip, which means 6,000 miles one-way. Flying entirely within one country on SAS would cost 10K miles round trip in economy class. The most practical redemption would be for domestic flights served by SAS. Domestic flights within Scandinavia could be acceptable, but not as good as Turkish However, for those who piece together complicated trips to/from/through different regions, they do have a couple of things that piqued my interest. And for most purposes, they don’t even really have useful sweet spots (basic stuff like the US to Europe would be so far overpriced as to not make sense). Spoiler alert: they don’t really having amazing award values. Without looking at the SAS award chart, my first thought was that SAS would need to have some amazing award values to make this interesting. *Note that the first two levels noted above are based on the Radisson to SAS ratio, but in reality you need to transfer Citi points to Choice in increments of 1,000, so you’d need to double the first redemption and bump up the second level to 13K Citi points, thereby orphaning some points in Choice/Radisson.ĭoes it make sense to transfer 25K Citi points for 14,286 airline miles? That’s a ratio of 1 Citi point to 0.57 airline miles.
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