Round trip or one-way: how SAS prices award flights

Add up two one-ways and you don't always get what SAS charges for the same trip booked as a round trip. The round trip is often cheaper - and the difference can be large.

A real example

A search in September 2026, Stockholm-Phuket in December:

Economy: 57,000 points one-way, but 47,500 per direction as a round trip.
Premium economy: 85,500 points one-way, but 71,250 per direction as a round trip.

So a premium economy round trip is 142,500 points instead of 171,000 - 28,500 points less for the same flights.

Why it's easy to miss

Search one direction at a time and add the prices up, and the trip looks dearer than it is. The real price only shows once both dates are chosen.

What Dotflight does

Dotflight first searches every date both ways and puts together every date pair that fits your stay. Then it asks SAS about the 30 cheapest pairs again, as real round trips, and shows SAS's own price. A ✓ by the price means it's SAS's round-trip price; without ✓ it's two one-way prices added up.

When one-ways are better

When you want to fly into one city and home from another.
When only one direction has seats: book it and set an alert for the other.

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