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title: "The EuroBonus devaluation of December 2025: what actually changed"
description: "On 1 December 2025 SAS raised EuroBonus award prices — but only in business. Economy and first class are unchanged. Here are the old and new numbers, zone by zone."
canonical: https://bonusinsider.no/en/artikler/eurobonus-devaluering-desember-2025
language: en-GB
published: 2026-08-26
modified: 2026-08-26
author: "Bonusinsider"
tags: ["SAS", "EuroBonus", "devaluation", "award chart", "points value"]
source: "Bonusinsider"
citation: "The EuroBonus devaluation of December 2025: what actually changed — Bonusinsider (https://bonusinsider.no/en/artikler/eurobonus-devaluering-desember-2025)"
---
On 1 December 2025 SAS raised its award prices. The change is usually described as a general devaluation, but that is not what the numbers show: **the increase hit business, and almost nothing else.** Economy costs the same number of points as before in every single zone, on both award charts. First class is unchanged too. Premium moved in one single cell.

Below are the old and the new prices, as SAS publishes them itself.

- **Business** — the cabin the whole increase sits in (every partner zone, plus SAS long-haul)
- **0%** — change in economy (unchanged in every zone, both charts)
- **+33%** — largest single increase (partner business within Europe and domestic)

## What changed on SAS-operated flights?

Awards on SAS-operated flights are priced from SAS's own chart, **per direction**. Of the five zone rows in that chart, only the longest one changed at all:

**SAS-operated, to/from Asia and North America (per direction)**

| Cabin | Before 1 Dec 2025 | Now | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Economy | 30,000 | 30,000 | Unchanged |
| Premium | 40,000 | 45,000 | +12.5% |
| Business | 50,000 | 60,000 | +20% |

The four shorter zones — domestic, within Nordic+, Nordic+ to Europe, and within Europe — carry exactly the prices they did before. A domestic trip in economy still costs 5,000 points per direction.

## What changed on SkyTeam partners?

Partner awards are priced from a different chart, as a **round trip**. Here business rose in every single zone, but very unevenly:

**Partner business, round trip from Europe**

| Zone | Before 1 Dec 2025 | Now | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Domestic | 30,000 | 40,000 | +33% |
| Europe | 60,000 | 80,000 | +33% |
| North Africa and the Middle East | 105,000 | 130,000 | +24% |
| Central America and the Caribbean | 147,500 | 180,000 | +22% |
| South America | 165,000 | 190,000 | +15% |
| Southern Africa / South and East Asia | 165,000 | 180,000 | +9% |
| North America | 130,000 | 140,000 | +8% |
| Pacific | 275,000 | 280,000 | +2% |
| Southeast Asia | 187,500 | 190,000 | +1% |

Note the spread. Business to Europe became a third more expensive, while business to Southeast Asia rose by 2,500 points — barely one per cent. The two zones Nordic travellers actually fly, Europe and North America, landed at opposite ends: +33 per cent and +8 per cent.

> **Did you know?**
>
> Economy, premium economy and first class are unchanged in every partner zone. The entire partner devaluation sits in the business column.

## How is an award priced after the change?

The mechanics are the same as before, and they are worth having straight, because they are the most common source of wrong numbers:

1. **Two charts, not one.** SAS-operated flights are priced from SAS's one-way chart. Partner flights are priced from the round-trip chart. Which one applies is decided by who *operates* the flight, not who you book with.
2. **The price is a fixed cell, not a multiplier.** Every combination of zone and cabin has its own published price. Business is not economy times a factor — which is exactly why the increase could hit business alone without touching economy.
3. **A partner one-way costs 60 per cent of the round trip.** Not half. Two separate one-ways therefore cost 120 per cent of a round trip. See [one-way versus round trip](/artikler/enveis-vs-tur-retur-eurobonus).
4. **The departure date sets the price**, not the booking date. A trip departing after 1 December 2025 is priced from the new chart regardless of when it was booked.

The full chart, zone by zone and cabin by cabin, with both old and new prices, is published on [the zone chart](/sonetabell).

## Where is the value now?

- **Economy on long-haul.** Unchanged throughout the devaluation. 30,000 points per direction to Asia or North America on SAS-operated flights is the same buy it was before 1 December 2025.
- **Mixed cabin.** Business out, economy home: you pay the new business price for one direction instead of two. The gap between cabins grew, so this strategy became more valuable, not less. See [the open-jaw guide](/artikler/hva-er-open-jaw).
- **The zones that barely moved.** Business to Southeast Asia and the Pacific is priced much as before. If your trip sits at that end of the chart, the devaluation is close to invisible.
- **Flexibility on dates.** The points price is identical across a zone, but availability is not. Shifting a trip by a week is often the difference between finding seats and finding none.

## Frequently asked questions about the devaluation

### Did EuroBonus get more expensive on 1 December 2025?

Yes, but only in business. On the partner chart business rose in every zone. On SAS's own chart business rose only on long-haul, to and from Asia and North America, from 50,000 to 60,000 points per direction; business within the Nordics and Europe costs what it did before. Economy and first class are unchanged in every zone on both charts, and premium moved in one single cell: SAS-operated flights to and from Asia and North America, from 40,000 to 45,000 points per direction.

### How much more expensive is business to North America?

On partner awards, business round trip from Europe to North America rose from 130,000 to 140,000 points, an increase of 7.7 per cent. On SAS-operated flights business rose from 50,000 to 60,000 points per direction, or 20 per cent, which is 100,000 to 120,000 points for a round trip.

### Did economy get more expensive in the devaluation?

No. The economy price is unchanged in every zone, on both SAS's own chart and the partner chart. A domestic trip still costs 5,000 points per direction, and economy to Asia or North America on SAS-operated flights still costs 30,000 points per direction.

### Do the new prices apply to trips I booked before 1 December 2025?

The price follows the departure date, not the booking date. A ticket already issued is priced and paid. A new booking departing after 1 December 2025 is priced from the new chart whenever you book it.

### Which zone was hit hardest?

Partner business domestic and partner business within Europe, both up 33 per cent: domestic from 30,000 to 40,000 points round trip, and Europe from 60,000 to 80,000. The smallest change was Southeast Asia, up 1.3 per cent from 187,500 to 190,000 points.

## How do you stay current?

The points price is published and fixed. Availability is not. [Search](/sok) and [the map](/kart) show when each route was last scanned, so you can see how fresh the numbers are, and [alerts](/verktoy/varsler) tell you when seats open on the routes you follow.

The devaluation made your business points worth less. Your economy points are worth exactly what they were. The difference now lies in finding the right seat, not in having enough points.