Star Alliance is offering a special birthday present as the global airline alliance prepares to celebrate its fifth anniversary May 14th. Customer belonging to a Star Alliance loyalty program, such as SAS EuroBonus, will earn 55,000 bonus miles by flying five different Star Alliance carriers over a 55 day period between May 14 and July 7, 2002.

- We want to thank our loyal customers who have supported Star Alliance for the past five years, said Louise McKenven, Vice President, Marketing of the Alliance.

- The anniversary mileage bonus easily qualifies for an award ticket in any Star Alliance loyalty program.

Star Alliance route network currently serves some 730 airports in 124 countries with 11.000 daily flights. This corresponds to a Star Alliance aircraft taking off or landing somewhere in the world every four seconds.

The Star Alliance member airlines are Air Canada, Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airways -ANA, Austrian Airlines, bmi british midland, Lauda Air, Lufthansa, Mexicana Airlines, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways International, Tyrolean Airways, United Airlines and VARIG Brazilian Airlines.

For further information regarding the promotion:
www.scandinavian.net/travel/eurobonus/index.asp

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