Finnair Plus - Upgrading family members (Platinum benefit)

There is a benefit for plats to upgrade family members for a very attractive amount of points:
when you travel in Business Class, use your points to upgrade up to three family members from Economy Class to Business Class – upgrades costs 50,000 points per person on long-haul return flights and 10,000 points per person on return flights within Europe

My question is, does the plat member need to be in paid business class (C, D, I, J)? Or is it enough that the plat member is in the service class business (i.e. can he be on an award-class ticket or an upgraded ticket and still make use of the offer)

Platinum rules på finska:

Ostaessasi bisnesluokan lentolipun

and that means when J-class ticket is purchased...

Platinum rules på finska:



and that means when J-class ticket is purchased...

I am pretty sure that's the case, but the English and Swedish pages ("när du reser i businessklass") are somewhat misleading.

I am pretty sure that's the case, but the English and Swedish pages ("när du reser i businessklass") are somewhat misleading.

... extremely misleading ..., I would say.
High swedish is not always the same as realm swedish, and for most of the times I can tell when the wording is just due to differences in the languages.
This swedish and the english passage however is clearly not demanding a paid ticket.

OH-LGG, thanks for checking the finnish version out for me. I might double check with service centre some day, but I won't hold my breath for it to be OK on an upgrade.

I have used this while still with AY, it needs to be paid J. (I would be very surprised if this has changed).