The SAS feeder rule: add a Nordic leg to a partner award for 150 kronor

Here is a rule that, as far as we can tell, no tool surfaces and few guides mention: SAS will attach a positioning flight from your Nordic home airport onto a partner award ticket for roughly 150 Norwegian or Swedish kronor, per person per direction, without charging additional points. Not a separate booking. The same ticket.

We verified this rule in August 2026 and built it into our search because it changes the economics of living outside a hub. This post is the plain-language version.

The problem it solves

Partner award space, post-SkyTeam, overwhelmingly departs from hubs: Copenhagen for SAS long-haul, Amsterdam and Paris for the Franco-Dutch network. If you live in Bergen, Gothenburg or Tromsø, the award you found does not start where you do, and the usual fixes are both bad. Booking a separate cash ticket to the hub creates two tickets, which means no protection when the first flight delays into a missed long-haul. Paying points for the hop wastes the currency on the leg where it buys the least.

The feeder rule is the third option: the hop rides on the award ticket itself, protected like any connection, for the price of a sandwich and a coffee at the airport it takes you to.

The shape of the rule, as we verified it

• What qualifies: a SkyTeam partner award (or a bilateral partner such as TAP) booked through EuroBonus, departing a hub SAS feeds: Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Amsterdam, Paris or London in the version of the rule we confirmed.
• The feeder itself: a SAS-operated flight from a Nordic origin to that hub, added to the same ticket.
• The price: around 150 NOK or SEK per person per direction in the two currencies we confirmed first-hand. No additional points.
• Cabins can mix. The feeder does not need to match the long-haul cabin. Economy to Copenhagen in front of business to the world is the normal shape.
• The channel: the phone. When we verified the rule, online booking could not reliably attach the feeder. The service centre could.

Rules like this change without announcements. Treat every detail above as dated to August 2026 and confirm on the call; the point of this post is that the rule exists and is worth asking for, not that its parameters are eternal.

The call, scripted

Booking by phone goes better when you do the agent's thinking for them. Have ready: the partner award you want (flights, date, cabin), your home airport, and the feeder flight you would prefer. Then the ask, more or less verbatim:

"I would like to book a partner award, and I would like a SAS feeder flight from [home airport] added to the same ticket. My understanding is that this is ticketed for a cash fee of about 150 kronor rather than additional points. The long-haul is [flight and date]; the feeder I would suggest is [flight and date]."

If the first agent is unfamiliar with the rule, thanking them and calling again is a time-honoured strategy for a reason. Give the feeder a sane connection time: it is one ticket, so a delay is the airline's problem, but you still want to actually make the flight.

When not to use it

If a cash hop to the hub is trivially cheap on the day and you are comfortable with self-connecting risk (or an overnight at the hub was the plan anyway), a separate ticket keeps the award flexible: changes to one do not touch the other. And if the long-haul departs your home airport in the first place, none of this applies; check the route page before assuming you need to position at all.

Our search does this arithmetic automatically: results departing a hub you do not live at show the feeder option, its schedule and the call script, next to the award itself. But the rule belongs to everyone, which is why it is written up here.

Small print, big consequences: this is the cheapest protected connection in Nordic award travel, and it costs a phone call.