Happy Saturday everyone! This random collection of brow-raising headlines includes an article about earning Avios on United flights, fun facts for the EuroBonus Millionaire promo, fun facts for American Airlines in 2024, and rats on the rise.
How to earn Avios when you fly United Airlines, a member of Star Alliance
The Avios world is a little weird, comprised of 6 programs (British Airways Executive Club, Iberia Plus, Aer Lingus AerClub, Vueling Club, Qatar Airways Privilege Club and Finnair Plus) that can have their own individual partnerships. One particularly weird partnership is Aer Lingus’ with United which is part of the competing Star Alliance. (Most of the Avios programs are part of the One World alliance). This weird partnership provides a way for you to credit your United flights to Avios via Aer Lingus AerClub.
SAS Shares Tidbits About EuroBonus Millionaires!
The SAS EuroBonus Millionaire Promo might feel like ages ago to most of us, but for anyone who participated it may feel like the challenge never ended, with many folks still awaiting the official SAS email notice of their success, and with SAS continually extending the deadline for working through missing-credit claims. As a reminder, participants had to fly 15 SkyTeam carriers in the last months of 2024 – and those 15 qualifying flights had to be credited to SAS (which has proven to be the hard part for many.)
This challenge was so unexpected and out-of-the-box, and the long lag in assessing winners had a lot of us assuming that SAS was not expecting so many participants. In this article, we get to see some specifics about what “so many participants” really is. Spoiler: it’s over 900 official winners so far out of 42,718 who signed up for the promotion!!! Check out the post for more fun SAS promo stats.
2.1M Flights, 124M Biscoff Cookies, & More: American Airlines by the Numbers in 2024
Speaking of fun stats, this post is full of random stats for American Airlines in 2024 – like a “Spotify Wrapped” for AA. My favorite fun fact is that the most popular destinations for people booking with their American Airlines miles in 2024 were Orlando, Boston, and Austin domestically and London, Cancun, and San Jose del Cabo internationally. There’s nothing wrong with Cancun of course, but instead of following the apparent trends of the majority, consider using your AA miles for some of these American Airlines sweet spots instead.
As Cities Get Warmer, Rat Populations Are on the Rise
Rats are on the rise! And Washington DC is leading the way with a 390 percent increase in rats in the last decade! According to this article, one of the reasons rats are on the rise is because rising temperatures have a way of sort of accelerating the breeding process, and of course increasing the season for active food foraging (instead of hiding out and shivering in dark solitude nibbling away at the food cache like the best of us in the winter time.) The rats don’t need to have the last say, though. New Orleans’ rat population actually decreased over the last decade thanks to improvements to pest control.
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Hi FM team, I wanted to flag that Loyalty Lobby is reporting massive devaluations by Avianca. I’ve been tracking Hawaii-Japan and there economy increased from 27.5k to 45k – 64% increase! From the post and comments seems be just about system wide devaluation.
DC leading the way with rats? There’s a joke waiting to be told.