Finnair Plus - Where to look which aircraft OH-xxx, before flight?

How can I see which particular aircraft OH-xxx is flying the route? After the flight, it can be seen e.g. from ftdashboard.net, but where can it see before the take-off?

You can see it as you board as it is painted on the fuselage :D

Well you can, but I guess that is not what you meant! Seriously, I would also like to know. But I fear that it is not published. Anyone else who knows?

If your flight is to Helsinki, you can of course check the incoming flight reg# from flightradar24 or similar services. Otherwise, you could ask the wise men at flightforum.fi (who apparently use napkins at the Ruskeasanta Shell station for their predictions).

Well, if you know the type you already know two of the x:s e.g A330 = OH-LTx A340 = OH-LQx and so on.

If you really care enough you might be able to work it out especially with the long haul fleet.

You can usually narrow it down to only a few suspects (or a single suspect in case of OH-LQA or OH-LTR as they are unique) by simply looking at the seatmap and comparing that to the one on the AY site. Then you can narrow it further down by looking which planes are busy on another route and can not be operating your flight. E.g. a bird that went to SIN last night can't operate anything out of HEL today, and a plane that departed to Asia in the afternoon surely is not operating any of the night departures to BKK, HKG, SIN and so on.

Some are even easy to guess, BKK tonight will most probably be OH-LTU as it went to LPA as AY1511 this morning and BKK is the only A333 flight departing tonight after AY1512 comes back (and for at least the last 3 weeks the plane that operated AY1512 has always operated AY95) Further on that means that OH-LTU is not operating any of the afternoon departures tomorrow and so on.
And naturally if you can work out the outbound (in this case AY95) from HEL, you can usually also work out the inbound (AY96) for tomorrow and...

You can also try look at the history for extra guestimations. AY5/AY6 has been OH-LTO or -LTP for the last 3 weeks, so I wouldn't be surprised if the AY5 today and tomorrow would be one or the other, probably LTO. AY95/AY96 has always been getting either OH-LTS, -LTT or -LTU for the last 3 weeks and is likely to keep doing that as BKK is in high season and those 3 planes have the most seats (and that means that AY1512/AY1511 is likely the be one of those as well and...)

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You can also try look at the history for extra guestimations. AY5/AY6 has been OH-LTO or -LTP for the last 3 weeks, so I wouldn't be surprised if the AY5 today and tomorrow would be one or the other, probably LTO. AY95/AY96 has always been getting either OH-LTS, -LTT or -LTU for the last 3 weeks and is likely to keep doing that as BKK is in high season and those 3 planes have the most seats (and that means that AY1512/AY1511 is likely the be one of those as well and...)

I use flight24 for a quick history view of a route
http://data.flight24.com/flights/ay69/
or a plane
http://data.flight24.com/airplanes/oh-lqa/

If you are looking to brace yourself if a certain plane individual is serving you tonight, this method is good enough.

It would have been interesting to get info what plane AY actually have scheduled (I mean, they have seat-maps when you book, so they have scheduled a plane long before take-off), but I don't think it is available anywhere.

It would have been interesting to get info what plane AY actually have scheduled (I mean, they have seat-maps when you book, so they have scheduled a plane long before take-off), but I don't think it is available anywhere.
You don't have to book, you can see the seat map before you finalize the booking. Of course this is only enough to identify which of the 6 variants it is, not the exact bird (unless it happens to be OH-LQA or -LTR) and naturally the longer in advance you check the bigger the change is that they will change the plane.

How can I see which particular aircraft OH-xxx is flying the route? After the flight, it can be seen e.g. from ftdashboard.net, but where can it see before the take-off?

BTW, why do you want to know this? I am curious as I also like to know this before boarding. For me it is being a flight-nerd, I'd like to get to know the individual planes I travel on. Some of them I can spot by just observing their quirks...

You don't have to book, you can see the seat map before you finalize the booking. Of course this is only enough to identify which of the 6 variants it is, not the exact bird (unless it happens to be OH-LQA or -LTR) and naturally the longer in advance you check the bigger the change is that they will change the plane.

Yeah, I know, I just like to se the individual plane number spelled out as I am a nerd :cool:

I flew some weeks ago from Singapore to HEL and upgraded with 55000 points. The bird was an old AF. Out of 16 video channels 9 was NOT working, the aircraft was dirty etc...
Even I just used my points for upgrade and not money, I don't want to spend my points anymore if getting this quality of aircraft. When flying in economy, one must fly a lot to just get those 55.000 points for an upgrade. Passanges should expect to get more of less the same quality of the overall service (service + bird), which is not materializing at the moment. Same ticket price with different quality. Specially I feel sorry for Finnair and all those who expect to have a great business experience in e.g. LQF, LQG.

Finnair business is nothing to rave about. Just flew DEL-HEL FOOD was crap and service and seats ok. The toilet was dirty

I flew some weeks ago from Singapore to HEL and upgraded with 55000 points. The bird was an old AF. Out of 16 video channels 9 was NOT working, the aircraft was dirty etc...
Even I just used my points for upgrade and not money, I don't want to spend my points anymore if getting this quality of aircraft. When flying in economy, one must fly a lot to just get those 55.000 points for an upgrade. Passanges should expect to get more of less the same quality of the overall service (service + bird), which is not materializing at the moment. Same ticket price with different quality. Specially I feel sorry for Finnair and all those who expect to have a great business experience in e.g. LQF, LQG.
For that purpose you don't need the exact aircraft just the "variant". Seatmap on a dummy booking should work for that, although of course that is just what they currently plan to use, and things can change especially if checking months in advance.

For example, OH-LQF and LQG do not have seats 1A and 1C in J, whereas all the others do.